1) extended education, delayed career entry, and postponed marriage all result in
________ for those in emerging adulthood.
a)great residential instability
b)an inability to commit to long-term romantic relationships
c)long-term career stability
d)a great sense of security
2) which of the following is a reason the psychoanalytic perspective is no longer in the
mainstream of child development research?
a)many psychoanalytic ideas, such as ego functioning, are too vague to be tested
empirically.
b)psychoanalytic theorists accept the clinical method in which age-related averages are
computed to represent typical development.
c)modern researchers have demonstrated that personality development does not take
place in stages.
d)psychoanalytic theorists became isolated from the rest of the field because they failed
to consider the early parentchild relationship.
3) adolescents whose parents value achievement
a)most often rebel and choose friends who are low-achievers.
b)choose friends who are popular because of sports or musical abilities.
c)choose friends who share that value.
d)tend to be rejected by their peers.
4) sevan, age 11 months, is wary of strangers. however, when his mother sits on the
floor, sevan ventures a few feet away from her for a few minutes at a time, and then
returns to her for emotional support. sevan is
a)engaging in effortful control.
b)exhibiting unusual behavior for a toddler with stranger anxiety.
c)using his mother as a secure base.
d)displaying avoidance rather than approach.
5) according to research on resilience, which of the following children has an increased
chance of offsetting the impact of a stressful home life?
a)john, who is a talented musician
b)mary, who is an only child
c)luke, who is shy
d)jane, who comes from a blended family
6) which of the following teens is most likely to have an adolescent pregnancy?
a)wynn, a middle-income african american
b)kim, a high-income asian american
c)selena, a low-income hispanic american
d)bella, a middle-income caucasian american
7) tanji is long and lean. she is probably from a
a)cold, arctic area.
b)region where disease is common.
c)hot, tropical region.
d)poor nation.
8) nearly all u.s. young people are sexually active by age
a)18.
b)20.
c)22.
d)25.
9) which of the following tasks would be within lucys zone of proximal development?
a)a task that lucy cannot accomplish alone or with the help of an adult
b)a task that lucy has recently mastered independently following the assistance of an
adult
c)a task that lucy cannot yet handle on her own but can do with the help of an adult
d)a task that lucy accomplishes through her independent activity
10) seven-year-old roshonda executes attentional strategies consistently, but her task
performance does not improve. roshonda is exhibiting a __________ deficiency.
a)schematic
b)control
c)production
d)utilization
11) a child sexual abuser is most likely to be
a)the victims mother or stepmother.
b)a stranger or someone the victim does not know very well.
c)male, and either a parent or someone the parent knows well.
d)someone the victim does not trust.
12) carter is highly talented in art and music. his parents are likely to
a)be warm, sensitive, and reasonably demanding.
b)be highly intelligent.
c)arrange for rigorous, demanding teachers when he is young.
d)have strict rules and high expectations.
13) when anne engages in intense exercise, particularly in cold weather or during
allergy season, her bronchial tubes fill with mucus and contract. this causes her to
cough and have serious breathing difficulties. anne has
a)nocturnal enuresis.
b)asthma.
c)emphysema.
d)bronchitis.
14) by tenth grade, 38 percent of teenagers in the united states have experimented with
at least one illegal drug, usually
a)painkillers.
b)cocaine.
c)marijuana.
d)alcohol.
15) some neo-piagetian theorists combine piagets stage approach with the ________
emphasis on task-specific changes.
a)ecological systems
b)information-processing
c)dynamic systems
d)vygotskian
16) between ages 6 and 12, children
a)become more aware of circumstances likely to spark mixed emotions.
b)are likely to explain emotion by referring to external events.
c)only experience guilt over transgressions if an adult is present.
d)report feeling guilt for any mishap, whether intentional or not.
17) growth norms
a)should be applied universally to assess secular trends.
b)are particularly applicable to ethnic minorities.
c)must be applied cautiously.
d)consider height but not weight.
dr. dimera is interested in measuring the extent to which individual differences in complex
traits in a specific population are due to genetic factors. when conducting research, dr.
dimera will most likely rely on
18) a)heritability estimates.
b)epigenesis.
c)canalization.
d)geneticenvironmental correlation.