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1. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
The survival goal.
Deviancy in adolescence.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
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2. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

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3. The understanding that the properties of an object or substance remain the same even if its appearance is altered in some superficial way is called...
Personal and social conventional
Moratorium
Conservation.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.

4. Various studies of the influence of television violence on children's behavior have found...
Authoritarian
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

5. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
. Decoding
Cultural socialization
Metamemory.

6. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...
Computer.
Identification.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Metamemory.

7. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
Kitchen.
slowly
Emotional climate of family
stereotypes

8. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Prevention science.
Decrease in efficiency
Masturbation
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.

9. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...
. the social goal
Piaget
Not supported by research
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.

10. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Auxiliary hair appears
Reciprocal teaching.
Conservation.
Decision making

11. In Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning - at which level does reasoning require people to go beyond the existing social conventions to consider more abstract principles of right and wrong?
Postconventional level
Mental operations.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Need about 8 hours.

12. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Gina - an early-maturing female
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Experience sampling method.

13. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.
Socialization.
Improvement in social status
Disciplinarian
transductive reasoning

14. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
. children older than seven years of age
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.

15. Which view of moral development suggests that children acquire a sense of What is right and wrong from internalizing the moral standards of their parents?
. psychodynamic view
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Specific learning disabilities.
Decrease in efficiency

16. Research on fathers suggests that...
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
. Decoding
Authoritative
Social intelligence.

17. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
support emotion and security needs.
Gina - an early-maturing female
Cultural socialization

18. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Formal operations.
Thought processes.
Metamemory.
Relational aggression

19. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Interdependence
Social intelligence.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.

20. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Computer.
Theory of mind.
Social intelligence.

21. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?
Differential reinforcement
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.

22. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.

23. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
Identification through differentiation
A scale error
to be enrolled in preschool
The human papillomavirus.

24. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
support emotion and security needs.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
puberty

25. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Specific learning disabilities.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Disciplinarian

26. A teacher and a small group of students read silently through segments of text and take turns leading discussion of their meaning. This is an example of...
Decision making
Reciprocal teaching.
Authoritarian
Inability to categorize objects

27. Parents who insist that their adolescent dress in a socially appropriate way is operating from the boundaries of ____________; while an adolescent who insists that dress is a matter of personal choice are operating from the boundaries of ____________
Uterus growth.
Social conventional; personal
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Inability to categorize objects

28. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
School-cutoff strategy.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Conservation.

29. Adolescent boys and girls - whose friends engage in high levels of disruptive behavior at the beginning of a school year - are more likely to experience ___________ in the level of their own disruptive behavior later in the school year.
Inability to categorize objects
Increases
. the social goal
Disciplinarian

30. In their study of planning - Gardner and Rogoff found that

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31. According to Piaget -...
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
The human papillomavirus.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.

32. Vygotsky believed that which of the following plays a key role in self-regulation and can allow children to create their own zones of proximal development?
Uneven and variable
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
direct instruction - Play
Moratorium

33. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
Interdependence
Independent.
Personal distress
Not supported by research

34. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Self-regulatory capacity.
throw a ball overhand.
Transductivity.

35. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Puberty.

36. Research on parent-adolescent relationships suggests that a great deal of conflict arises because of differences in opinion about the boundaries between which two social domains?
Identification.
Personal and social conventional
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Differential reinforcement

37. The term gonads refers to...
The ovaries and the testes.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Cultural socialization
Autobiographical memory.

38. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
Thought processes.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Masturbation
Autobiographical memory.

39. Cross-cultural studies of concrete operations demonstrate that...

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40. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?
. the social goal
Personal and social conventional
Apprenticeship
Cultural socialization

41. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Disciplinarian
Theory theory
Socioeconomic status.
Emotional climate of family

42. Authoritarian
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
School-cutoff strategy.
Foreclosure.
Social and emotional development.

43. A child's ability to recognize that two rows of pennies each with the same number of pennies have the same number of pennies when one row of pennies is longer than the other is called...
. psychodynamic view
Conservation.
The Oedipus complex.
Formal operations

44. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Emerging adulthood.
transductive reasoning
Disciplinarian

45. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
Socialization.
Effortful control.
A. more wooden buttons.
Personality formation

46. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Autobiographical memory.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Foreclosure.
Internalizing problems.

47. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
controlling conflict within a social group.
support emotion and security needs.
Personal distress
Metamemory.

48. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Rehearsal.
Reciprocal teaching.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Multiple intelligences.

49. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Puberty.
Independent.
Elaboration.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.

50. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...
Socialization.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Compensation.
Relational aggression

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