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1. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
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Neighborhood physical disorder.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.

2. 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...
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
. the social goal
Emphasize obedience.
Realistic mathematics education.

3. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Motor drive
throw a ball overhand.
A. more wooden buttons.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate

4. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
Self-regulatory capacity.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Apprenticeship

5. The memory strategy that involves making connections between two or more things to be remembered is called...
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Elaboration.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

6. When three-year-old children are told a story about a little boy who puts candy in a drawer - leaves the room - and doesn't see when his mother then moves the candy into the kitchen - they predict the boy will look for the candy in the...
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Kitchen.
Need about 8 hours.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.

7. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
A performance orientation.
. the social goal
Risky and potentially harmful.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.

8. In this stage of sexual identity development are sexual-minority individuals who have come to terms with their homosexuality and are 'out' in their communities?
Identity integration
Authoritarian
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Conservation.

9. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Mental operations.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Computer.

10. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Internalizing problems.
Emotional climate of family
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Flynn effect.

11. Studies comparing schooled and nonschooled students have demonstrated that...
Formal operations
Prevention science.
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Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.

12. A child reasons that the change in the level of a quantity of liquid brought about by pouring it from a short - wide beaker to a tall - narrow beaker is not caused by a change in the amount of the liquid - but by the fact that the taller beaker is al
More rigid
Compensation.
Script.
At risk for obesity.

13. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Compensation.
Decreases; remains the same
Mental operations.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.

14. 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?
Transductivity.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
direct instruction - Play
Social conventional; personal

15. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation
Spermarche.
Interdependence
Skipping.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

16. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.
Instrumental aggression.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Personality formation
throw a ball overhand.

17. The extent to which friends are similar to one another is referred to as...
Decreases; remains the same
Emerging adulthood.
Conservation.
Homophily.

18. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Personal distress
Increases; decreases
Transductivity.
Improvement in social status

19. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
support emotion and security needs.
Confusing appearance and reality.
Biological maturation.
A. more wooden buttons.

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

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21. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?
Spermarche.
throw a ball overhand.
Disciplinarian
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence

22. Not the result of the maturation of the frontal lobe?
Auxiliary hair appears
Decreases; remains the same
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Higher levels of intelligence

23. Not a protective factor
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Identification through differentiation
Financial recession.
Foreclosure.

24. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Rehearsal.
Decrease in efficiency
Sensory register
clique

25. having extended family involved in their lives.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
The survival goal.
Compensation.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

26. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Cultural socialization
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27. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...
Piaget
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

28. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Higher levels of intelligence
Specific learning disabilities.
Personal and social conventional
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.

29. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
Skipping.
Identity formation
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Uterus growth.

30. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
Emerging adulthood.
Thought processes.
Uterus growth.
The model does not include a morality of care.

31. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
Risky and potentially harmful.
. children older than seven years of age
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
support emotion and security needs.

32. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?
. the social goal
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.

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

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34. Borke's replication of Piaget and Inhelder's three-mountain experiment in which children were presented with a Sesame Street character that drove around familiar landmarks demonstrated that three- and four-year-old children are capable of...
Masturbation
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Decreases; remains the same
Chlamydia

35. When talking about their sexual debut -...
Gay and lesbian parents
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

36. Authoritarian
Motor drive
Social and emotional development.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
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37. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
In addition to cognitive structures - gender schema theory uses culture to explain sex-role identity development - Gender schema theory often uses an information-processing approach to describe how the cognitive and learning elements of the system wo
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
. Decoding

38. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
Empathy
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
transductive reasoning
Stage 4

39. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
School-cutoff strategy.
Experience sampling method.
Mental operations.

40. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
The human papillomavirus.
Authoritarian
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.

41. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Moratorium
The model does not include a morality of care.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Multiple intelligences.

42. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
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Risky and potentially harmful.
Emotional climate of family
The model does not include a morality of care.

43. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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44. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
Independent.
When parents are not getting along
Foreclosure.
Rehearsal.

45. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
Thought processes.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Sensory register
positive emotions

46. 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...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Masturbation
Autobiographical memory.
Identity formation

47. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
clique
Script.
Decrease in efficiency
Social and emotional development.

48. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Flynn effect.
Sociodramatic play.
direct instruction - Play
Differential reinforcement

49. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...
Authoritative
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Prevention science.

50. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
12 to 15 hours
direct instruction - Play
. saturated self.
puberty

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