1) young children learning chinese, japanese, and korean acquire ______ more readily
than their english-speaking agemates.
a)proper nouns
b)verbs
c)object nouns
d)modifiers
2) between 3 and 4 months, babies can
a)discriminate positive from negative emotion in voices.
b)match faces with voices on the basis of lipvoice synchrony.
c)discriminate positive from negative emotion in faces.
d)remember the unique facevoice pairings of unfamiliar adults.
3) the _______ produces blood cells until the developing liver, spleen, and bone
marrow are mature enough to take over this function.
a)amnion
b)chorion
c)placenta
d)yolk sac
4) henrichs parents value sports so highly that they punish him when he makes errors
during games. once, they insisted he keep playing after he sprained his ankle. henrich is
most likely to
a)feel good about his participation and ability.
b)put pressure on himself to practice until he becomes an elite athlete.
c)suffer from emotional difficulties.
d)continue in sports throughout high school and into college.
5) research shows that most teenagers
a)engage in serious antisocial acts, although they are rarely caught or prosecuted.
b)do not show serious depression, suicidal tendencies, or persistent antisocial behavior.
c)experience severe bouts of depression, especially those in industrialized nations.
d)seriously consider suicide, although few actually make an attempt.
6) which of the following children has the highest risk for poor academic achievement
and emotional adjustment?
a)zane, a boy who lives with his divorced mother
b)logan, a boy who lives with his divorced father
c)madisyn, a girl who lives with her divorced mother
d)kennedy, a girl who lives with her divorced father
7) job loss, a failing marriage, and financial difficulties
a)show little correlation with attachment security.
b)are the primary causes of disoriented/disorganized attachment in infancy.
c)can undermine attachment indirectly by interfering with parental sensitivity.
d)tend to have indirect, but not direct, effects on attachment security.
8) heather is a foreclosed teenager. which of the following statements is heather likely
to make?
a)i dont care about finding a so-called value system. what does it matter anyway?
b)i believe what my parents have taught me and have no reason to doubt that they are
right.
c)ive explored many options and have settled on the value system that makes the most
sense to me.
d)im still exploring my options for the future.
9) alice is inactive, shows mild, low-key reactions to environmental stimuli, and adjusts
slowly to new experiences. in thomas and chesss research, alice would be classified as
a)slow-to-warm-up.
b)uninhibited.
c)difficult.
d)easy.
10) among u.s. teenage girls, an estimated ____ percent of those who had sexual
intercourse became pregnant in the most recently reported year.
a)10
b)20
c)30
d)40
11) hillary, an african-american adolescent, would have higher self-esteem
a)if she was the only african-american girl in an otherwise all-white school.
b)in a school with just a few other african-american students.
c)in a school with many other african-american students.
d)if she was home schooled by a female relative.
12) which of the following is true about childrens questions?
a)with age, preschoolers increasingly ask about function, activity, state, and theory of
mind.
b)at every age between 1 and 5 years, non-information-seeking questions are more
often used than information-seeking questions.
c)children do not begin asking questions until they have the vocabulary to formulate
sentences.
d)inquisitive children are more often merely clamoring for attention than seeking real
answers to their questions.
13) in developing countries,
a)vaccines weaken the immune system and childrens susceptibility to disease.
b)most childhood deaths due to diarrhea can be prevented with nearly cost-free oral
rehydration therapy.
c)most children receive government-funded immunizations.
d)widespread diarrhea leads to growth stunting but rarely to death.
hair color is an example of a
14) a)karotype.
b)phenotype.
c)gamete.
d)genotype.
15) in piagets theory, ____________ involves building schemes through direct
interaction with the environment.
a)disequilibrium
b)assimilation
c)organization
d)adaptation
16) second-language competence
a)drops sharply after age 18.
b)increases continuously with age.
c)drops sharply after age 10.
d)decreases continuously with age.
17) events like conflict with parents, the breakup of an important relationship, or the
humiliation of being caught engaging in irresponsible or antisocial acts are all
a)stressors that can foster depression, but typically do not lead to a suicide attempt.
b)triggers that result in more delinquent acts.
c)contributing factors to the imaginary audience and the personal fable.
d)stressors that can trigger a suicide attempt.
18) gardners _________ and __________ intelligences include a set of capacities for
dealing with people and understanding oneself that has become known as emotional
intelligence.
a)linguistic; musical
b)spatial; bodily-kinesthetic
c)interpersonal; intrapersonal
d)interpersonal; social