which of the following is a risk associated with frequent ultrasound use?
1) a)premature labor
b)miscarriage
c)low birth weight
d)limb deformities
2) in classical conditioning, if learning occurs, the neutral stimulus alone produces a(n)
a)unconditioned response.
b)neutral response.
c)unconditioned stimulus.
d)conditioned response.
3) which girl is likely to reach menarche first?
a)aakia, who lives in a poverty-stricken village in ethiopia
b)anya, who comes from a low-income family in sweden
c)alexis, who is a middle-income caucasian american
d)angelique, who is a middle-income african american
4) jim sometimes uses his right hand skillfully, but prefers his left hand. jim
a)is ambidextrous.
b)has a strongly lateralized brain.
c)is very likely to have left-handed children.
d)probably had early damage to the left hemisphere.
5) our large storehouse of information about child development
a)is scientifically important, but has only limited practical value.
b)has grown solely through the contributions of child development investigators.
c)has grown through the combined efforts of people from many fields.
d)is relevant and practical, but has limited scientific value.
6) which of the following is true about automobile accidents and adolescent drivers?
a)graduated licensing laws reduce adolescent traffic fatalities by 6 to 11 percent.
b)parentchild communication has no preventive effect on automobile accidents.
c)contrary to media portrayals, alcohol use is not a leading cause of teen auto accidents.
d)automobile accident account for about 25 percent of teen deaths in the united states.
7) growth and myelination of fibers linking the cerebellum to the cerebral cortex
contributes to ____________ in early childhood.
a)a strong hand preference
b)suppression of impulses in favor of thoughtful responses
c)dramatic gains in motor coordination
d)dramatic gains in spatial skills
8) many psychologists and educators came to prefer the wechsler intelligence tests
because they offered ____________ long before the stanford-binet.
a)both a measure of general intelligence and a variety of factor scores
b)a measure of general intelligence
c)fact-oriented information
d)componential analysis
9) unlike children, teenage rough-and-tumble players
a)establish a dominance hierarchy.
b)rarely cheat.
c)hurt their opponents.
d)do not act aggressively.
10) when peer groups are tracked
a)for three to six weeks, substantial membership changes occur.
b)from year to year, membership changes very little even though classrooms are
reshuffled.
c)from year to year, about 30 to 40 percent of groups consist mostly of the same
children.
d)for three to six weeks, membership changes very little.
11) the extent to which parents ________ contributes strongly to early language
process, which, in turn, predicts intelligence and academic achievement in elementary
school.
a)engage their children in physical activity
b)watch educational television with their children
c)talk to their infants and toddlers
d)teach their children specific literacy and math skills
12) adolescent idealism often leads young people to become
a)more cooperative at home.
b)more critical of parents and siblings.
c)better students at school.
d)more realistic in their evaluations of others.
13) children in second through sixth grades who participated in the resolving conflict
creatively program
a)showed increased relational aggression.
b)showed gains in prosocial behavior, but losses in academic achievement.
c)less often behaved aggressively and engaged in more prosocial behavior.
d)did not benefit from a second year of the intervention.
14) which of the following is true about the social environment and motor skills?
a)parents tend to hold higher expectations for boys athletic performance than for girls.
b)from first through twelfth grade, boys are less positive than girls about their own
sports ability.
c)until adolescence, parents hold similar expectations for boys and girls athletic
performance.
d)fewer girls today participate in team sports like soccer.
15) understanding of false belief is associated with early _________ ability.
a)reading
b)mathematical
c)writing
d)speaking
16) jessica, a concrete operational child, can seriate mentally. this means that jessica is
capable of
a)transitive inference.
b)decentration.
c)class inclusion.
d)conservation.
17) which of the following is true about measuring temperament?
a)parental reports provide little information about the way parents view and respond to
their babies.
b)parental reports have a low correlation to researchers observations of childrens
behavior.
c)researchers can better control childrens experiences in the home setting as opposed to
the laboratory.
d)most neurophysiological research focuses on the positive-affect and fearful-distress
dimensions of temperament.
18) in haylees preschool classroom, teachers provide activities in learning centers from
which children select, and much learning takes place through play. haylees preschool is
a)actually a child-care center.
b)an academic program.
c)a child-centered program.
d)unlikely to foster school readiness.
19) neurons
a)store and transmit information.
b)are tightly packed together.
c)do not directly connect with each other.
d)that are stimulated too soon lose their synapses.
20) research involving infants numerical knowledge suggests that babies
a)can discriminate quantities up to five.
b)can perform simple addition, but not subtraction.
c)have the ability to distinguish among large sets of items.
d)can add and subtract small sets correctly.