1) training in __________ is an effective treatment for aggressive children.
a)associative play
b)social problem solving
c)instrumental aggression
d)inductive discipline
2) which of the following changes could you anticipate for the child of ethiopian
immigrants who relocated to the united states?
a)she will be taller and longer-legged than her agemates in ethiopia.
b)she will be heavier and have thicker bones than her agemates in ethiopia.
c)she will be taller than her parents, but will have shorter legs.
d)she will be shorter and start menstruation later than her agemates in ethiopia.
3) theorists who believe that children who are high or low in a characteristic will remain
so at later ages typically stress the importance of
a)heredity.
b)stages.
c)nurture.
d)plasticity.
4) after a trip to the zoo, 4-year-old jaden is able to remember the animals he saw and
the context in which he saw them. this is an example of
a)scripts.
b)recognition without recall.
c)autobiographical memory.
d)overlapping-waves.
5) typically, parents of students who drop out of school
a)encourage achievement but just are not successful.
b)completed high school themselves.
c)show little involvement in their childs education.
d)have serious emotional problems.
6) matthew was prenatally exposed to alcohol. his physical growth is typical and he has
no facial abnormalities. however, he has impaired motor coordination, attention span,
and memory. matthew was probably born with
a)fetal alcohol syndrome.
b)alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder.
c)partial fetal alcohol syndrome.
d)a genetic disorder.
7) research on kohlbergs theory indicates that
a)most young people reach stage 6 by the end of high school.
b)few people move beyond stage 4.
c)males are more advanced in moral reasoning than females.
d)real-life moral reasoning is based on social conformity.
8) which of the following is true about surrogate motherhood?
a)most surrogates have no children of their own.
b)surrogates cannot be paid for their childbearing services.
c)it usually involves the wealthy as contractors for infants and the less economically
advantaged as surrogates.
d)it usually involves younger couples as contractors and older women as surrogates.
9) which of the following is true about the relationship between environment factors
and adhd?
a)because adhd runs in families, environmental factors have no impact on the disorder.
b)prenatal teratogens can combine with certain genotypes to greatly increase the risk for
adhd.
c)a stressful home life usually causes adhd.
d)there is no correlation between stress factors in the home and adhd.
10) jade and christiana are playing house. jade is pretending to be the mom and
christiana is pretending to be the dad. two dolls are used as their children. they are
engaged in _______ play.
a)parallel
b)cooperative
c)associative
d)nonsocial