1) oral rehydration therapy and zinc supplements
a)are effective for children with severe diarrhea, but they are expensive to administer.
b)must be administered by trained medical professionals or public health workers.
c)save the lives of millions of children each year.
d)are less effective than immunization in preventing childhood deaths due to diarrhea.
2) in wayne denniss study of infants in iranian orphanages, only 15 percent of the
orphans were walking alone by 3 to 4 years of age because
a)they spent the first year of their lives being carried by caregivers.
b)they were malnourished and unable to acquire the strength to walk.
c)they spent their days lying on their backs in cribs.
d)rapid motor progress was actively discouraged by caregivers.
3) one of the best ways for johanns mom to promote peer interaction skills is for her to
a)provide opportunities for johann to play with peers.
b)avoid arranging frequent play dates that may overwhelm johann.
c)avoid providing specific suggestions to johann on how to interact with other children.
d)prevent johann from interacting with children who have conflicts with johann.
4) the ________ cortex is responsible for consciousness, inhibition of impulses, and use
of memory.
a)occipital
b)temporal
c)parietal
d)prefrontal
5) when 12-month-old barretts mom asks him, where is your teddy bear? barrett
responds by pointing to the place on his bed where the teddy bear usually rests. barrett
is displaying
a)habituation and recovery.
b)inferred imitation.
c)displaced reference.
d)means-end problem solving.
6) margaret mead showed that
a)to understand adolescent development, researchers must pay greater attention to
social and cultural influences.
b)samoan adolescents had a similar adolescent experience as young people in western
societies.
c)the period of adolescence is greatly extended in non-western societies.
d)not all cultures have an intervening phase between childhood and adulthood.
7) boys superiority over girls in mathematics
a)is steadily increasing in industrialized nations.
b)has remained steady over the last 30 years.
c)has greatly diminished.
d)is actually a myth.
8) the artistic person is likely to select which of the following occupations?
a)engineer
b)teacher
c)surveyor
d)writer
9) heterozygous individuals with just one recessive allele
a)cannot pass that trait to their children.
b)may be carriers of the trait.
c)will pass the dominant trait to their children.
d)will pass the recessive trait to their children.
10) by the end of middle childhood, children form ______ on the basis of proximity,
gender, ethnicity, and popularity.
a)social clubs
b)social networks
c)peer groups
d)dominance hierarchies
11) research examining cultural variations in personal storytelling revealed that
a)irish-american parents often told stories about the childs misdeeds.
b)chinese parents downplayed the childs misdeeds, attributing them to assertiveness.
c)chinese parents did little to cultivate their childs individuality.
d)irish-american parents generally saw self-esteem as unimportant or even negative.
12) which of the following statements is true about only children?
a)they are more intelligent than children with siblings.
b)they are as well-adjusted as children with siblings.
c)they have more emotional problems than children with siblings.
d)they are less intelligent than children with siblings.