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1. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.

2. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...
Identification through differentiation
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
transductive reasoning

3. In terms of sleep - adolescents...
Need about 8 hours.
School-cutoff strategy.
Increases
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.

4. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that
Uneven and variable
School-cutoff strategy.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.

5. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
Personal distress
positive emotions
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Increases

6. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
Having extended family involved in their lives.
The model does not include a morality of care.
Script.
Increases

7. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?
stereotypes
Egocentrism
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.

8. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation
Internalizing problems.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
The human papillomavirus.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

9. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...
Thought processes.
Postconventional level
The ovaries and the testes.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.

10. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Stage 4
controlling conflict within a social group.
Enabling interactions
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.

11. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
Not supported by research
Rehearsal.
Gay and lesbian parents
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

12. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
Identification.
Authoritarian
Agility.
throw a ball overhand.

13. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
Culture-sensitive instruction.
A performance orientation.
. the social goal
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

14. Kohlberg's process of sex-role development mostly closely follows...

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15. 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?
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Deviancy in adolescence.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Personal and social conventional

16. A primary sex characteristic...
Emotional climate of family
When parents are not getting along
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Uterus growth.

17. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
Plan ahead.
Metamemory.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Autobiographical memory.

18. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...
Differential reinforcement
In formal schooling oral instruction is the most common type of instruction while apprenticeship instruction is done through watching and imitating the master's work.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

19. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
. saturated self.
Socialization.
Apprenticeship
Violence

20. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Effortful control.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.

21. Research in which participants carry electronic pagers that beep at random intervals - signaling that they need to fill out a brief report on their current feelings is called...
Experience sampling method.
At risk for obesity.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
The model does not include a morality of care.

22. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
Prosocial behavior
Sensory register
Theory of mind.
Compensation.

23. In which stage of forming a sexual minority development would an individual who has had homosexual experiences and recognizes that they prefer sexual relations with members of their own sex but do not openly acknowledge their preference be?
Dyslexia.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Differential reinforcement
Identity assumption

24. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Internalizing problems.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.

25. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Authoritative
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Mental operations.
transductive reasoning

26. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
Authoritarian
Deviancy in adolescence.
Cultural socialization
Flynn effect.

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

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28. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
Stage 4
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.

29. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?
to be enrolled in preschool
. psychodynamic view
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

30. By helping children to recall and interpret events in which they have participated - adults help children acquire an enduring sense of themselves by creating a sort of personal narrative - referred to as the child's...
Self-regulatory capacity.
Script.
A. more wooden buttons.
Autobiographical memory.

31. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Plan ahead.
Formal operations.
Foreclosure.

32. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...
A. more wooden buttons.
Social interaction
Empathy
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.

33. 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...
Conservation.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
. Decoding

34. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...
Prosocial behavior
Decreases; remains the same
12 to 15 hours
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

35. 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...
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
A. more wooden buttons.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
direct instruction - Play

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

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37. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Biological maturation.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Internalizing problems.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other

38. 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...
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Motor drive
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
The Oedipus complex.

39. 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
The drawer in the in kitchen
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Thought processes.
Need about 8 hours.

40. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
An infusion of pubertal hormones
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.

41. Not a risk factor for child abuse?
Computer.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
. children older than seven years of age
Sociodramatic play.

42. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?
Gina - an early-maturing female
Biological maturation.
Sociodramatic play.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

43. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
Confusing appearance and reality.
Flynn effect.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Prosocial behavior

44. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Emotional climate of family
Identification through differentiation
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

45. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Gay and lesbian parents
Formal operations.
Postconventional level
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

46. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Script.
Identity formation
Reciprocal teaching.

47. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
Identity formation
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Puberty.
Compensation.

48. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
Dyslexia.
More
Identity formation
stereotypes

49. When talking about their sexual debut -...
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Identity integration
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.

50. The term gonads refers to...
Conservation.
Not supported by research
The ovaries and the testes.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

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