1) proponents of emerging adulthood as a distinct period note that
a) it fails to describe the experiences of most of the worlds youths.
b)it applies to most young people in industrialized societies.
c)it occurs across diverse cultures and ses groups.
d)emerging adults are part of a general trend toward blurring of age-related
expectations.
2) eleven-year-old nathan first grasped conservation of number, followed by length,
liquid, mass, and then weight. this limitation of concrete operational thinking is known
as
a)transitive inference.
b)continuum of acquisition.
c)adaptability.
d)conservation of thought.
3) according to kohlberg, which is the most important factor in determining the maturity
of responses to moral dilemmas?
a)the reasoning behind the answer
b)whether the child considers anyone elses perspective
c)how the child uses emotion in determining the answer
d)whether the child answers like other children his age
4) the effects of teratogens
a)may not show up for decades.
b)rarely go beyond physical damage.
c)are always immediate.
d)are always obvious.
5) during puberty,
a)the hands, legs, and feet accelerate first.
b)growth follows the cephalocaudal trend.
c)the torso accelerates first.
d)children grow from the head first, then the torso.
6) school-age children have difficulty drawing accurate conclusions from propositional
statements because they
a)find it more difficult to inhibit activation of well-learned knowledge.
b)adhere rigidly to the logical necessity of the statement.
c)are unable to think logically about any problem.
d)cannot yet understand the concept of a hypothesis.
7) research indicates that ________ probably strengthens certain neural connections,
especially those involved in vision and ________.
a)crawling; pattern perception
b)sitting; understanding of space
c)sitting; pattern perception
d)crawling; understanding of space
8) which of the following is a limitation of chomskys nativist perspective?
a)chomskys theory is inconsistent with research on efforts to teach nonhuman primates
language systems.
b)chomskys theory cannot explain why children refine and generalize many
grammatical forms gradually.
c)chomskys theory overemphasizes the role of social experience in language
development.
d)chomskys theory fails to show that humans have evolved specialized regions in the
brain that support language skills.
9) the best estimate of a childs physical maturity is
a)height.
b)weight.
c)skeletal age.
d)chronological age.
10) about ____ percent of u.s. three-month-olds regularly watch either tv or videos.
a)20
b)30
c)40
d)50
as the puritans emigrated from england to america, they brought the belief that
11) a)children were born innocent and self-reliant.
b)child rearing was one of adults most important obligations.
c)children were naturally endowed with a sense of right and wrong.
d)childrens characters were shaped entirely by experience.