FINAL

Question 0

Grouping all related items together is known as _______.

Answer 0

organization

Question 1

Piaget’s stage that involves spatial reasoning and seriation is known as the ______ stage.

Answer 1

concrete operational

Question 2

Children pass Piaget’s class inclusion problem between the ages of 10 and 12. This means that they can focus on relations between a general category and three specific categories at a time.

Answer 2

false

Question 3

During the _______ stage, it is believed that the combination of adult expectations and children’s drive toward mastery sets the stage for the psychological conflict of middle childhood and it is resolved when children develop a sense of competence at useful skills and tasks.

Answer 3

industry vs. inferiority

Question 4

Another name for an unmanageable fear is called a ______.

Answer 4

phobia

Question 5

When children feel severe apprehension about attending school, this would be called ______.

Answer 5

school phobia

Question 6

In order for child abusers to make a child comply to what they want them to do, they use a variety of distasteful ways. Which of the following is not one of those ways?

Answer 6

asking nicely

Question 7

When two people share a sexual relationship and a residence without being married is called ______

Answer 7

cohabit

Question 8

Many single-parent families depend on child support from the noncustodial parent to relieve financial strain.

Answer 8

true

Question 9

By the early school years, children associate power and privilege with white people and poverty and inferior status with people of color.

Answer 9

true

Question 10

Young school-age children often blame themselves for a marital breakup and fear the both parents may abandon them.

Answer 10

true

Question 11

When children may adopt teachers’ positive or negative views and start living up to them, this is known as ______.

Answer 11

educational self-fulfilling prophecies

Question 12

When students with learning difficulties are placed in special education classrooms, for all or part of the day, and this practice is designed to prepare them for participation in society, this is known as inclusive classrooms.

Answer 12

false

Question 13

Students will an IQ that fall between 55 and 70 would be considered severely retarded.

Answer 13

false

Question 14

Children who are gifted display exceptional intellectual strengths.

Answer 14

true

Question 15

According to Gardner, there are at least ______ independent intelligences; whereas Sternberg’s theory of successful intelligence identifies ____ interacting intelligences.

Answer 15

eight; three

Question 16

A person who displays an interpersonal intelligence may become a ______.

Answer 16

salesperson

Question 17

_____ released from the adrenal glands on top of each kidney, influence girls’ height spurt and stimulate growth of underarm and pubic hair.

Answer 17

adrenal androgens

Question 18

Primary sex characteristics involve the reproductive organs.

Answer 18

true

Question 19

Androgens contribute to the regulation of the menstrual cycle.

Answer 19

false

Question 20

During which adolescent period is pubertal changes nearly complete?

Answer 20

14-16

Question 21

According to your text, at what age is early adolescence defined as?

Answer 21

11-14

Question 22

In girls, what causes the breasts, uterus, and vagina to mature?

Answer 22

estrogen released by the girls’ ovaries

Question 23

_____ described adolescence as a period so turbulent that it resembled the era in which humans evolved from savages into civilized beings.

Answer 23

hall

Question 24

The sense of oneself as a separate, self-governing individual is called ____.

Answer 24

autonomy

Question 25

Increased gender stereotyping of attitudes and behavior and movement toward a more traditional gender identity is known as _____.

Answer 25

gender intensification

Question 26

____ was the first to recognize identity as the major personality achievement of adolescence and as a crucial step toward becoming a productive, content adult.

Answer 26

Erikson

Question 27

Read carefully: How many stages and levels did Kohlberg organize moral development into?

Answer 27

2; 3 which means 6 in all

Question 28

The transition between childhood and adulthood is ______.

Answer 28

adolescence

Question 29

Parental divorce, single-parent families, early pubertal timing, peer pressure, and low educational aspirations are some of the reasons why adolescents become sexually active.

Answer 29

true