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Chapters 7-10 Flashcards

1
Q

What happens to the rate of growth between the ages of 2 and 6, when compared to the growth rate during infancy?
a. speeds up
b. slows down
c. remains the same
d. there is too much individual variation to make any generalizations

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B

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Plasticity of the brain is the greatest…
a. about 1-2 years of age
b. during the pre-school years
c. during adolescence
d. during adulthood

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A

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3
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How many hours of sleep does the National Sleep Foundation recommend that 3-5 years olds get everyday?
a. 12 to 18
b. 14 to 15
c. 12 to 14
d. 11 to 13

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D

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4
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We would expect a child to first be able to build a tower of 6 cubes at the age of…
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5

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A

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5
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Which of the following is true about enuresis?
a. it is a sing that the child is angry or disappointed with his/her parents
b. is a sign of poor parenting
c. is more common in girls
d. is usually outgrown

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D

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6
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More preschoolers cannot conserve volume, mass, or number because they…
a. are lacking intelligence
b. do not understand what the word conservation means
c. focus on one dimension of a situation at a time
d. have not been taught mathematics

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C

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7
Q

Piaget used the 3-mountains test to study _______ in children.
a. morality
b. theory of mind
c. confusion of mental and physical events
d. egocentrism

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D

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8
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All the following are scaled of the HOME Inventory except…
a. parental verbal and emotional responsiveness
b. parental use of scaffolding and the zone of proximal development
c. parental provision of appropriate play materials
d. parental avoidance of restriction and punishment

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B

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9
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Studies of Head Start show that it has been effective at…
a. preventing children from developing major illnesses
b. decreasing aggressiveness in the home environment
c. helping children understand the appearance- reality distinction
d. enhancing the cognitive development of economically deprived children

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D

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10
Q

Preschoolers’ learning grammatical rules have led to…
a. vocab development
b. overregulation
c. development of the whole-object assumption
d. use of pragmatics

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B

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11
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Which of the following is part of the feminine gender role stereotype?
a. patient
b. independent
c. realistic
d. disorderly

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A

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12
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Which of the following are children in early childhood least likely to fear?
a. lightning
b. stinging and crawling bugs
c. strange people
d. social disapproval

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D

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13
Q

All of the following are listed as reasons that view violent media can contribute to aggressive behavior, except
a. disinhibition of aggressive impulses
b. explaining that media violence is not real
c. priming of aggressive thoughts and memories
d. observational learning

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B

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14
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Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between empathy and gender?
a. girls show more empathy than boys
b. boys show more empathy than girls
c. girls and boys show equal amounts of empathy
d. the research literature on the subject is inconclusive

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A

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15
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Children first show visual preferences for stereotypical “boys toys” or “girls toys”….
a. before the 1st birthday
b. between the ages of 1-2
c. between the ages of 2-5
d. between the ages of 5-8

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A

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16
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Which of the following, according to Parten’s types, is a form of nonsocial play?
a. cooperative play
b. associative play
c. onlooker play
d. parallel play

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C

17
Q

When preschoolers are asked what they like about friends, they are most likely to report that….
a. they and their friends can share their innermost thoughts
b. their friends are the people they can trust
c. they and their friends share toys and activities
d. their friends are the same gender and ethnic background

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C

18
Q

Compared to later-born children, first-born children are….
a. less anxious
b. more self-reliant
c. more adult-oriented
d. more aggressive

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C

19
Q

Baumrind found the sons of ______ parents to be hostile and defiant and the daughter to be low in independence and social dominance.
a. authoritative
b, authoritarian
c. preserve-indulgent
d. rejecting-neglecting

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B

20
Q

Children who are physically punished…
a. are more likely to be motivated to succeed
b. are less intelligent than other children
c. do not understand why they are being disciplined
d. are more likely to be aggressive then other children

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D

21
Q

The ability to ignore distractions increases most dramatically between…
a. 6-9 years old
b. 9-12 years old
c. 12-16 years old
d. early adulthood and late adulthood

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A

22
Q

Children are said to be intellectually disabled when they obtain IQ scores of no more than…
a. 70-75
b. 80-85
c. 90-95
d. 100

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A

23
Q

The group most likely to show similarity in IQ scores is…
a. children and their adoptive parents
b. children and the biological parents
c. fraternal twins reared together
d. paternal twins reared apart

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D

24
Q

Which of the following theorists considers the bodily-kinesthetic ability to be intelligence?
a. Sternberg
b. Wechsler
c. Gardner
d. Terman

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C

25
Q

Childhood obesity is caused by….
a. heredity/genetics
b. fast foods and other environmental factors
c. both heredity and environmental factors
d. factors that have not yet been determined

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C

26
Q

The best way to keep information in working memory is by….
a. sensory input
b. rehearsal
c. hierarchical organization
d. decay

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B

27
Q

At the pre-conventional level of moral developmennt, children judge what is right and wrong on the basis of…
a. universal abstract principals
b. weighing human needs against social needs
c. obedience and the prospect of punishment
d. ones duty to others, as set down in the law

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C

28
Q

The most common treatment for ADHD disorder is the use of…
a. behavior therapy
b. time out
c. depressants
d. stimulants

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D

29
Q

Over the past 20 years, the prevalence of obseity among children has….
a. decreased
b. increased by ~20%
c. increased by 50%
d. doubled

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D

30
Q

What happens to children’s self esteem in middle childhood?
a. raises
b. decreased
c. remain the same
d. rises, then deceases

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B

31
Q

What kind of parenting contributes to high self-esteem in a child?
a. authoritarian
b. authoritative
c. rejecting-neglecting
d. permissive

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B

32
Q

How do 10-12 year olds evaluate their parents in middle childhood compared to early childhood?
a. the same
b. less harsh
c. more harsh
d. no evidence on this matter

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C

33
Q

What is the likelihood that the children of lesbian/gay parents will have a lesbian/gay sexual orientation?
a. about half
b. somewhat more than children raised by heterosexual parents
c. about the same as children raised by heterosexual parents
d. less than that of children raised by heterosexual parents

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C

34
Q

According to the text, research about whether parents in conflict should remain together for the sake of the children shows that….
a. they should stay together if their religion forbids it
b. even fighting parents provide a better environment then children do of single/step parents
c. they should get a divorce
d. it depends on how the parents behave in front of and towards the children

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D

35
Q

Evolutionary theory suggests stepparents may be less devoted to rearing stepchildren because….
a. they do not have enough resources
b. they have not had the experience of how to get along with step children for the same amount of time as with their own children
c. the step children do not care for them as much as they care for their biological parents
d. people often behave as if they want their own genes to flourish in the next generations

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D

36
Q

All of the following are helpful ideas about talking to children about divorce except…
a. reassuring the children that you both love them and will always be their parents
b. waiting until the last minute
c. admitting that the divorce will be sad and upsetting
d. telling the children that the divorce is not their fault

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B

37
Q

Does maternal employment increase the likelihood that children will become delinquent?
a. no
b. yes- almost always
c. yes but only if maternal employment is connected with lack of supervision
d. yes for girls but not for boys

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C

38
Q

Between the ages of 7-12, children see friends as…
a. doing things for one another, with a focus on self interest
b. doing what they want
c. providing mutual support over a long period of time
d. changing as people change and develop new goals for friendships

A

A

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