Test #2: Modules 5-7

Question 1

Gross motor skills involve ___, while fine motor skills involve ___.

Answer 1

gross motor skills involve LARGE MUSCLE MOVEMENTS, while fine motor skills involve SMALL MUSCLES.

Question 2

Which of Baumrind’s parenting styles involves parents who hold high expectations for their children but are also responsive to their children’s needs?

Answer 2

Authoritative.

Question 3

Which of these has the greatest influence on adolescents concerning attitudes about sexual activity?

Answer 3

peers

Question 4

teen movies often contain the trope of the nagging parent trying to wake up their sleepy teenager. Why is this so common?

Answer 4

Teenagers often get too little sleep.

Question 5

Will’s parents set rules for how late he can stay out, where he’s allowed to go w/o permission, and when he’s allowed to drive. These rules act as what kind of normal parental control?

Answer 5

Parental monitoring.

Question 6

Edgar can sound out most three-letter words, but when he sees a long eight-letter word, he turns to his teacher instead of trying to sound it out. His teacher encourages him to go ahead & try to sound it out by breaking it down into 2 parts. According to Vygotsky, Edgar

Answer 6

is in the zone of proximal development.

Question 7

Parent-child relationships shift during adolescence as teens become more independent. If parents strongly resist any change in roles and tighten control over teens, attempting to manipulate their child’s thoughts and actions, what is this an example of?

Answer 7

psychological control

Question 8

Mila’s friends all seem to know what they want to do after they graduate high school, but she feels alone in not knowing. She doesn’t know what she wants to do, and she’s not ready to start thinking about it yet. According to Marcia, what is Mila’s identity status?

Answer 8

diffusion

Question 9

Melanie and Lucas are both 4 years old. Melanie comes from a family of high socioeconomic status (SES), while Lucas comes from a family of low SES. According to research by Hart and Risley, why is it likely that these two children will experience different academic outcomes in school?

Answer 9

Children from high SES families are exposed to more words than children from low SES families, and therefore have an advantage when starting school.

Question 10

According to Erikson, a successful resolution of the crisis in middle childhood will lead a child to a sense of what?

Answer 10

industry

Question 11

According to James Marcia’s identity status theory, Regina, a high-school senior who is contemplating whether she wants to enlist in the Navy or attend her local community college then transfer to a larger school for ROTC, currently occupies which identity status?

Answer 11

moratorium