1) emmett, age 4 months, looks and smiles more at video images of others than video
images of himself. this discrimination reflects an
a)explicit sense of selfworld differentiation.
b)internal working model.
c)implicit sense of selfworld differentiation.
d)external working model.
2) the ovum can survive for _____ after it is released into the fallopian tube.
a)a couple of hours
b)one day
c)four days
d)six days
3) marzanne is pregnant and wonders how much weight she should gain. her doctor will
probably recommend that she gain _______ to _______ pounds.
a)10; 15
b)20; 25
c)25; 30
d)30; 35
4) self-conscious emotions appear
a)in the middle of the first year.
b)at the end of the first year.
c)in the middle of the second year.
d)at the end of the second year.
5) about ___ percent of u.s. children live with a single parent who has never married
and does not have a partner.
a)5
b)10
c)15
d)20
6) noah thinks more skillfully than others when faced with novelty. given a new task,
noah applies his information-processing skills in exceptionally effective ways, rapidly
making these skills automatic so that working memory is freed for more complex
aspects of the situation. according to sternbergs theory, noahs strengths lie in ________
intelligence.
a)analytical
b)creative
c)practical
d)experiential
7) anxious, withdrawn children who ________ show fewer adjustment problems than
other victimized children.
a)have a close friend
b)avoid interacting with others
c)are verbally skilled
d)can pretend as if they do not care about being teased
8) when asked about his career plans, rodney responds, havent thought about it. doesnt
make too much difference to me what i do. what identity status characterizes rodney?
a)identity achievement
b)moratorium
c)identity foreclosure
d)identity diffusion
9) all contemporary child development theories view children as
a)naturally endowed with a sense of right and wrong.
b)passive and emotionally fragile.
c)adults in training.
d)active, purposeful beings.
10) studies of adopted children who spent their first year or more in deprived eastern
european orphanages indicate that
a)late adoptees are not able to bond with their adoptive parents.
b)adoptees do not typically show social or emotional problems if adopted before the age
of 6.
c)fully normal emotional development depends on establishing a close tie with a
caregiver early in life.
d)adoptees delays and impairments tend to disappear in middle childhood.
11) most conceptions result from intercourse during the
a)first week of the menstrual cycle.
b)last week of the menstrual cycle.
c)day of ovulation and the two days following it.
d)two days preceding ovulation and the day of ovulation.
12) dioxin seems to impair the fertility of __________ prior to conception.
a)x-bearing ova
b)y-bearing sperm
c)x-bearing sperm
d)y-bearing ova
13) based on the 2010 u.s. census bureaus statistics on women in various professions,
which of the following professions do women dominate most?
a)teacher
b)lawyer
c)business executive
d)doctor
14) elaboration is a later-emerging memory strategy because it requires
a)a great deal of mental effort and working-memory capacity.
b)concrete pieces of information.
c)combining rehearsal and organization.
d)a greater digit span.
15) in a series of studies using the violation-of-expectation method, rene baillargeon
and her collaborators claimed to have found evidence for ________ in the first few
months of life.
a)assimilation
b)mental representation
c)object permanence
d)equilibrium