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1) in the strange situation, richard is unresponsive to his mother when she is present.
when she leaves, richard reacts to the stranger in much the same way as to his mother.
when his mother returns, richard pays no attention to her. richard is demonstrating
__________ attachment.
a)avoidant
b)secure
c)disorganized/disoriented
d)resistant
2) at home, pauls parents hit him as punishment for misbehavior. at preschool, paul
angrily hits a playmate who takes his toy. according to social learning theory, paul is
displaying
a)classical conditioning.
b)operant conditioning.
c)behavior modification.
d)observational learning.
3) when children take part in research, the ethical concerns are especially complex
because
a)children are less vulnerable than adults to physical harm.
b)immaturity makes it difficult for children to evaluate for themselves what
participation in research will mean.
c)while adults are more vulnerable to psychological harm, children are sometimes
exploited.
d)children do not have the same privacy rights as adults.
4) self-conscious emotions
a)are present at birth.
b)are universal and basic.
c)include happiness, fear, anger, and sadness.
d)involve injury to or enhancement of our sense of self.
5) one of the lasting contributions of psychoanalytic theory is its
a)information regarding the channeling of biological drives.
b)ability to capture the essence of personality development during each period of
development.
c)nearly exclusive focus on the importance of experiences in infancy and early
childhood.
d)emphasis on quantitative and experimental research.
6) which of the following statements is true about how infants perceive the structure of
speech?
a)rules that infants extract from the speech stream do not generalize to nonspeech sounds.
b)parents must directly teach word-order rules for infants to understand the basic grammar
of their language.
c)infants locate words by discriminating syllables that often occur together from syllables
that seldom occur together.
d)infants do not become sensitive to the speech structure of individual words until after
their first birthday.
7) teenagers at the greatest risk for stds are
a)poverty-stricken teenagers who feel a sense of hopelessness.
b)high-income teenagers whose parents are permissive.
c)middle-income teenagers whose parents have high expectations.
d)impossible to identify; all teenagers are equally at risk for stds.
8) thirteen-year-old donna, whose family life is marked by abuse, has already started
dating. there is a strong potential for donna to
a)practice sexual abstinence.
b)become more popular among her peers.
c)engage in unhealthy eating behaviors.
d)experience dating violence.
9) bulous is 20 months old and was recently weaned. he has an unbalanced diet very
low in protein. bulous has an enlarged belly, swollen feet, a skin rash, and thinning hair.
bulous most likely has
a)iron-deficiency anemia.
b)kwashiorkor.
c)nonorganic failure to thrive.
d)marasmus.
10) seven-month-old tyrese was born with a severe visual impairment. research
suggests that
a)tyrese will use sound to establish a shared focus of attention with his caregivers.
b)once language emerges, tyrese is likely to make impressive developmental rebounds.
c)tyrese will be as effective at communicating with caregivers as sighted infants.
d)until his vision is restored, tyrese will not benefit from stimulating, responsive
interaction.
11) piagets concrete operational stage extends through the ages of
a)1 to 3.
b)4 to 6.
c)7 to 11.
d)12 to 15.
