1) research demonstrates that
a)girls are slightly ahead of boys in early vocabulary growth.
b)shy toddlers vocabularies are typically larger than their agemates.
c)mothers tend to talk more to toddler-age boys than to girls.
d)boys and girls develop their vocabularies at the same rate.
2) many infant test scores are labeled ________ quotients.
a)intelligence
b)developmental
c)emotional
d)cognitive
3) studies involving genetic influences in homosexuality indicate that
a)homosexuality is more common on the paternal side of families.
b)fraternal twins are more likely to share a homosexual orientation than identical twins.
c)adoptive relatives are as likely to share a homosexual orientation as biological
relatives.
d)homosexual brothers often have an identical segment of dna on the x chromosome.
4) __________ adultinfant coordination, in which interactional synchrony occurs, is the
best predictor of attachment security.
a)loose
b)tight
c)moderate
d)variable
5) braison is receiving an intervention that encourages him to believe that he can
overcome failure by exerting more effort. braison is receiving
a)learned success.
b)attribution retraining.
c)mastery orientation.
d)academic mediation.
which of the following seems to be strongly canalized?
6) a)intelligence
b)motor development
c)personality
d)emotional development
7) beginning in infancy, hearing parents of deaf children are _______________ than are
deaf parents of deaf children.
a)more responsive to their childs efforts to communicate
b)more effective at turn-taking
c)less directive and intrusive
d)less involved in play
each rung of the dna ladder
8) a)is made up of thousands of chromosomes.
b)contains 20,000 genes.
c)consists of a pair of chemical substances called bases.
d)contains 23 matching pairs.
9) the crowd offers adolescents
a)a place for trying out roles in the absence of adult monitoring.
b)a situation for experimenting with values.
c)a context for acquiring new social skills.
d)the security of a temporary identity as they separate from the family.
10) which of the following statements about teenage employment is true?
a)most teenagers work to receive vocational training or to prepare for the transition to
college.
b)most teenagers plan to continue in the same vocational area as their afterschool job
once they graduate.
c)the more teenagers work, the poorer their school attendance and the less likely they
are to participate in extracurricular activities.
d)middle- and high-income young people make up the majority of the teenage
workforce.
11) in the united states, nearly _____ percent of childhood deaths are due to injury.
a)5
b)10
c)25
d)35
according to the concept of epigenesis,
12) a)development results from ongoing bidirectional interactions between heredity and all
levels of the environment.
b)childrens genetic makeup causes them to receive, evoke, and seek experiences that
actualize their inborn tendencies.
c)heredity restricts the development of some behaviors to just one or a few outcomes.
d)childrens genetic inheritance constrains their responsiveness to varying environments.