1) ___________ the appearance of permanent teeth in children.
a)overweight and obesity accelerate
b)poor dental hygiene in toddlerhood delays
c)prolonged malnutrition accelerates
d)excessive plaque on baby teeth delays
2) adolescents feel _____ comfortable with peers who ______________________.
a)more; mature sooner than they do
b)most; match their own level of biological maturity
c)more; mature later than they do
d)least; match their own level of biological maturity
3) as stan progresses through adolescence, his parents will probably find that they have
the greatest influence on his
a)educational plans.
b)friends.
c)grooming.
d)dating.
4) ______________ is generally regarded as the founder of the child-study movement.
a)john locke
b)jean-jacques rousseau
c)charles darwin
d)g. stanley hall
5) dmitri, age 5, is very short in stature, shows decreased gh secretion, has an immature
skeletal age, and has serious adjustment problems. dmitri probably has
a)a vitamin c deficiency.
b)a thyroxine deficiency.
c)psychosocial dwarfism.
d)an iron deficiency.
6) mrs. noneman directs her children to each carry out an aspect of a task. each child is
expected to work independently. mrs. noneman prefers a(n) _______________ style of
communication.
a)collaborative
b)hierarchical
c)abstract
d)authoritarian
as an alternative to infant tests, some researchers have turned to _______________
measures to assess early mental development.
7) a)adult iq
b)operant learning
c)information-processing
d)classical conditioning
8) the _______ grow(s) the fastest in middle childhood.
a)head
b)upper body
c)extremities
d)lower body
9) opponents of kohlbergs theory argue in favor of a
a)more flexable framework for moral development.
b)new emphasis on social order and ideal reciprocity.
c)pragmatic approach to morality.
d)instrumental stage of civic responsibility.
10) research reveals that
a)plasticity declines during synaptic pruning.
b)plasticity is greatest while the brain is forming new neurons.
c)brain plasticity is restricted to early childhood.
d)the adult brain cannot produce new neurons.
11) the rise in ______after 6 months of age keeps nearly mobile babies enthusiasm for
exploration in check.
a)fear
b)sadness
c)anger
d)emotional contagion
12) dr. thigpen views development as a discontinuous, stagewise process that follows a
single, unified course mapped out by nature. dr. thigpens views are most aligned with
which perspective?
a)jean-jacques rousseaus view of the child as a noble savage
b)john lockes view of the child as a tabula rasa
c)the puritans view of the child as evil and stubborn
d)charles darwins view of survival of the fittest
13) which of the following statements is supported by research on child-directed
speech?
a)deaf mothers lack a style of communication similar to child-directed speech.
b)by as early as 5 months, infants are more emotionally receptive to child-directed
speech.
c)infants begin to prefer child-directed speech over other kinds of adult talk by age 2.
d)child-directed speech becomes less information-laden and more emotion-laden over
the first year of life.
14) one factor that heightens the incidence of adolescent pregnancy is
a)exposure to sex education in middle and high school.
b)easy availability of low-cost contraceptive services.
c)a history of family poverty, which encourages risk-taking behavior.
d)early puberty for boys and late puberty for girls.
15) which of the following statements regarding schools and identity development is
true?
a)over the past 20 years, schools have had an increasingly negative impact on identity
development.
b)schools foster identity development by promoting high-level thinking.
c)schools often interfere with identity development by emphasizing competition over
learning.
d)in school settings, boys tend to receive more encouragement than girls to develop a
secure identity.