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

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2. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
Microsystem
Sociodramatic play.
Plan ahead.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.


3. If a 5-year-old watches a little girl put a piece of candy into a drawer in the kitchen and then watches the girl's mother move the piece of candy to the refrigerator without the little girl knowing - where will the 5-year-old say the little girl wil
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
The drawer in the in kitchen
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'


4. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Slower
Moratorium
Uneven and variable
Effortful control.


5. Which of the following statements about children's experience with interactive media is NOT true?

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6. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
When parents are not getting along
Exosystem.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Moratorium


7. 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.
Decoding.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Increases


8. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
Identity formation
Kitchen.
Personality formation
Moratorium


9. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Formal operations.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Uneven and variable
Authoritarian


10. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
stereotypes
Puberty.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Postconventional level


11. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Stage 4
Self-regulatory capacity.
More


12. 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?
Need about 8 hours.
Personal and social conventional
Effortful control.
Postconventional level


13. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Sociodramatic play.
Personality formation


14. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Identification through differentiation
Identification.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.


15. 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 ____________
Social conventional; personal
Empathy
Effortful control.
Social intelligence.


16. 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...
The human papillomavirus.
Conservation.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.


17. According to Piaget -...
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
transductive reasoning
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
stereotypes


18. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Personal distress
Emerging adulthood.


19. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
Theory of mind.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Slower
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.


20. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
Socioeconomic status.
Dyslexia.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
The human papillomavirus.


21. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Egocentrism
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
The human papillomavirus.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning


22. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
Skipping.
stereotypes
Violence
Girls report feelings of coercion.


23. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Emotional climate of family
Apprenticeship
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy


24. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?
Egocentrism
Internalizing problems.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Effortful control.


25. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits
Cultural socialization
Me-self
Personal distress
Compensation.


26. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?
Auxiliary hair appears
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks


27. The fear - guilt - and conflict stirred up by a boy's desire to kill his father and live with his mother taking his father's place is known as...
The Oedipus complex.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Specific learning disabilities.
Compensation.


28. Children adopting an entity theory of intelligence are more likely than others to...

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29. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
Reciprocal teaching.
controlling conflict within a social group.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.


30. Five-year-old Jacob is playing with his grandmother's buttons. He counts eight wooden buttons and three plastic buttons. When his grandmother asks Jacob if he has more wooden buttons or more buttons - he will most likely indicate that there are...
The ovaries and the testes.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
A. more wooden buttons.


31. The school-cutoff strategy helps researchers to...

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32. NOT characteristic of school problems?
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Compensation.
Enabling interactions
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.


33. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
Creative arts
Authoritarian
Metamemory.
Self-regulatory capacity.


34. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Sensory register
A scale error
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.


35. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
puberty
Microsystem
Emerging adulthood.
Rehearsal.


36. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
Flynn effect.
Social interaction
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Formal operations


37. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Financial recession.
Piaget
to be enrolled in preschool
Mental operations.


38. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Social and emotional development.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.


39. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Identity formation
Emerging adulthood.
Emotional climate of family


40. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...
School-cutoff strategy.
Postconventional level
to be enrolled in preschool
Differential reinforcement


41. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Higher levels of intelligence
Decoding.
Genetic and environmental factors.


42. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Disciplinarian
Risky and potentially harmful.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence


43. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Motor drive
Enabling interactions
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.


44. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
At risk for obesity.
The human papillomavirus.
Agility.


45. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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46. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Self-regulatory capacity.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Internalizing problems.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.


47. 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...
Exosystem.
Reciprocal teaching.
Mental operations.
Dyslexia.


48. A primary sex characteristic...
Exosystem.
Autobiographical memory.
Uterus growth.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.


49. Studies of poor families suggest that such factors as stress - the dangerous circumstances of daily life in poor areas - and the nature of parents' jobs tend to cause poor parents to...
Emphasize obedience.
The human papillomavirus.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Uneven and variable


50. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Foreclosure.
Empathy
support emotion and security needs.