1) when roger sees a baby doll on the floor, he asks himself, do boys play with dolls? he
then decides not to play with the doll. roger
a)is a gender-schematic child.
b)does not yet have well-developed gender schemas.
c)is a gender-aschematic child.
d)is not using his gender-salience filter.
2) a study of self-esteem in 13 industrialized countries showed that the majority of
teenagers had
a)low self-esteem.
b)a negative attitude toward school and work.
c)a pessimistic outlook on life.
d)confidence in their ability to cope with lifes problems.
3) young people with ___________ and ___________ scores tend to take more sexual
risks, more often use drugs, and commit more delinquent acts than their agemates.
a)low personal-fable; high sensation-seeking
b)high personal fable; high sensation-seeking
c)high self-esteem; low sensation-seeking
d)low self-esteem; high idealism
4) gregor, a high-school senior, has begun taking creatine to enhance his performance
on the basketball court. which of the following side effects are possible?
a)diabetes
b)brain seizures
c)damage to the reproductive organs
d)a loss in muscle power
5) jay introduced a new ball to his 2-year-old daughter, kandi. he said, im throwing the
wiffle ball to you! he then threw the new ball to kandi. kandi said, catch, wiffle, catch!
kandis connection of the term wiffle to the ball is an example of
a)overregularization.
b)syntactic bootstrapping.
c)fast mapping.
d)semantic bootstrapping.
6) ___________ is/are a good predictor of iq.
a)well-developed gross-motor skills
b)inhibition skill
c)slow, steady nervous system function
d)rem brain-wave patterns during sleep
7) one way to enhance girls math skills is to
a)focus more on their verbal processing skills.
b)focus less on spatial skills and more on computational skills.
c)teach them how to apply effective spatial strategies.
d)wait until secondary school, when higher order skills are being utilized, to intervene.
children can evaluate the logic of verbal statements without referring to real-world
circumstances in piagets _______________ stage.
8) a)sensorimotor
b)preoperational
c)concrete operational
d)formal operational
9) bao, an only child, lives in china. which of the following is probably true?
a)baos development is not as favorable as only children in the united states.
b)bao tends to feel emotionally insecure.
c)bao differs from agemates with siblings in social skills.
d)bao does not differ from agemates with siblings in peer acceptance.
10) high school work-study programs are related to
a)positive school and work attitudes.
b)good teacher and peer relations.
c)poor achievement.
d)high dropout rates among low-income youths.
11) a wealth of recent research suggests that piaget ________ preschoolers cognitive
capabilities.
a)was completely wrong about
b)vastly overestimated
c)accurately estimated
d)was partly wrong and partly right about
12) development of language and make-believe play take place in piagets
____________ stage.
a)sensorimotor
b)preoperational
c)concrete operational
d)formal operational
13) the stage concept assumes that change is
a)gradual.
b)ongoing.
c)fairly sudden.
d)unique for each child.
14) in quasi-experiments,
a)random assignment helps protect against reduction in the accuracy of the findings.
b)researchers combine random assignment with the matching technique.
c)cause-and-effect inferences cannot be made.
d)lack of random assignment substantially reduces the precision of the research.
nearly 39 percent of babies in the united states are born to single mothers, one-third of
whom are
15) a)teenagers.
b)ethnic minorities.
c)low-income caucasians.
d)30- to 45-year-olds.
persistent paternal depression is linked to
16) a)aggression in boys.
b)colic in infants.
c)anorexia in girls.
d)childhood autism.