The most violent television programs are
A)reality programs.
B)adult medical dramas.
C)children’s cartoons.
D)adult legal dramas.
Handedness
A)reflects the greater capacity of one side of the brain to carry out skilled motor action.
B)is evident in a wide range of skills from birth.
C)is a heritable trait, especially for left-handed people.
D)is strongest for simple, rather than complex, skills.
Morgan, who has recently switched schools, is having academic and emotional difficulties.
Her parents should know that Morgan, as a vulnerable student,
A)may have an easier time forming close friendships now that she is “the new girl.”
B)will probably seek help from the school guidance counselor.
C)may be starting a downward spiral that will eventually lead to failure and dropping out.
D)is likely to take advantage of her new environment to forge a more successful academic
path.
The __________ factors on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition, are
assumed to be __________ culturally biased.
A)quantitative reasoning; less
B)visual-spatial processing; less
C)basic information-processing; more
D)working-memory; more
One challenge to Vygotsky’s theory is that
A)it places too much emphasis on how memory contributes to socially transmitted higher
cognitive processes.
B)in some cultures, verbal dialogues are not the only means through which children learn.
C)it does not differ enough from Piaget’s theory about the purpose of private speech.
D)studies have shown that children taught in Vygotskian classrooms are delayed in their
learning.
The “Heinz dilemma” is a(n)
A)classic example of an adolescent in moratorium, deliberating between two career
choices.
B)narrative used to assess adolescents’ understanding of social conventions.
C)example of an everyday moral conflict that young people encounter.
D)conflict between two moral values which pits the value of obeying the law against the
value of human life.
Compared to her mother at the same age, 20-year-old Rita is __________ likely to
__________.
A)more; attend regular, formal religious activities
B)more; participate in community service
C)less; postpone the age of marriage
D)less; cohabit before marriage
Gardner believes that each intelligence
A)is rooted in early environmental experiences.
B)has a biological basis.
C)has a similar course of development.
D)has a unique neurological basis.
__________ thinking involves arriving at a single correct answer, whereas __________
thinking involves generating multiple and unusual possibilities when faced with a task
or problem.
A) Divergent; convergent
B)Recursive; reciprocal
C)Convergent; divergent
D)Factual; creative
Gardner’s __________ and __________ intelligences include a set of skills for accurately
perceiving, reasoning about, and regulating emotion that has become known as emotional
intelligence.
A)linguistic; musical
B)spatial; bodily-kinesthetic
C)interpersonal; intrapersonal
D)interpersonal; social
From one-third to one-half of nonsmoking pregnant women
A)use alcohol regularly.
B)smoked prior to finding out they were pregnant.
C)take antidepressants.
D)are “passive smokers.”