1) when caring for their babies, mothers devote more time to ________ and fathers
devote more time to ________.
a)playful interactions; feeding and diaper changes
b)feeding and diaper changes; emotional closeness
c)playful interactions; emotional closeness
d)physical care; playful interactions
2) research on lead exposure during childhood reveals that
a)middle-ses children are the most likely group to experience lead exposure.
b)use of iron supplements increases lead concentration in the blood.
c)exposed children absorb more lead when their diets contain zinc.
d)a stressed, disorganized home life can heighten lead-induced damage.
3) studies of perception demonstrate that
a)western adults, but not infants, can detect rhythmic-pattern deviations of non-western
music.
b)western children retain the ability to detect deviations in foreign musical rhythms
throughout childhood.
c)western babies lose their ability to detect deviations in foreign musical rhythms by 12
months of age.
d)several weeks of daily opportunities to listen to non-western music restores western
adults sensitivity to music rhythms.
4) which of the following is true about gender-role learning in gender-segregated peer
groups?
a)boys are especially intolerant of cross-gender play in other boys.
b)preschoolers are rarely criticized for engaging in cross-gender activities.
c)preschoolers play in mixed-gender groups more than they play in same-sex groups.
d)to get their way, girls often rely on commands, threats, and physical force.
5) lyndall is a sophomore in college and has decided that he wants to be an engineer. he
plans to take introductory courses in both electrical and mechanical engineering to help
him decide. lyndall is in the ________ phase of the ________ period of vocational
development.
a)exploration; fantasy
b)crystallization; tentative
c)crystallization; realistic
d)exploration; realistic
6) seven-month-old tristans parents are divorcing. if tristan is like the average child of
divorce, which of the following is likely to happen?
a)tristan will spend about a third of his childhood in a single-parent family.
b)neither of tristans parents will remarry.
c)tristan will reside with his father.
d)tristan will spend about two-thirds of his childhood in a single-parent family.
7) ten-year-old justine has a feeling of being in control of her emotional experience.
justine has acquired
a)problem-centered coping.
b)emotion-centered coping.
c)emotional self-efficacy.
d)self-conscious emotions.
8) the most striking feature of childrens concepts of god is
a)how different their thinking is from that of adults.
b)their mix of tangible and intangible features.
c)that their representations of god are restricted to a big person image.
d)that their thinking is not strongly influenced by religious education.
9) researchers using gibson and walks visual cliff found that
a)depth perception first appears after babies begin to walk.
b)most babies avoided the deep side of the cliff.
c)most babies avoided the shallow side of the cliff.
d)depth perception first appears after babies begin to crawl.
10) compared with past generations, school-age children today spend more time
a)gathering informally on sidewalks.
b)in adult-organized sports.
c)at playgrounds.
d)in spontaneous play.
11) which of the following is true regarding the major domains of development?
a)the domains of development are separate and distinct.
b)each period of development is made up of a new set of domains.
c)the physical domain has little influence on the other domains.
d)development is divided into three broad domains: physical, cognitive, and emotional
and social.
12) baby pauls mother strokes his hair just before he eats. now when pauls mother
strokes his hair, paul begins to suck. the stroking is the __________, and the taste of
milk is the _____________.
a)conditioned stimulus; neutral stimulus
b)unconditioned stimulus; conditioned stimulus
c)neutral stimulus; unconditioned stimulus
d)neutral stimulus; conditioned response
13) steven and stephanie have equal skill levels in math, science, and language arts.
which of the following is probably true?
a)stephanie has higher math self-esteem.
b)steven has higher language-arts self-esteem.
c)they have equal academic self-esteem.
d)steven has higher math and science self-esteem.
14) frequent media multitaskers may find it difficult to
a)utilize implicit memory.
b)focus on more than one task at a time.
c)ignore irrelevant stimuli in the environment.
d)shift attention from one task to another.