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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A are at a time in their development when they do not really care that their parents divorce
B are so successful at adapting to changes that is has little effect upon them
C also blame themselves
D understand that there are other reasons that their parents divorced that have nothing to do with them
Question #2
A controversial; high in self-esteem; low social skills
B rejected-withdrawn; low in self-esteem; low in social skills
C neglected; low in self-esteem; high in social skills
D popular; high in self-esteem; high in social skills
Question #3
A rises; peaks; declines
B rises; declines; rises
C declines; rises; declines
D declines; plateaus; rises
Question #4
A Since other students are jealous of his intelligence, he is probably not very popular.
B Intelligence enhances popularity in middle school for those with good social skills, so he probably is quite popular.
C Since he is “nerdish” he probably has very few, if any, friends.
D He is probably very popular since students really respect intelligence regardless of how good his social skills are.
Question #5
A popular
B rejected
C neglected
D controversial
Question #6
A controversial
B rejected
C neglected
D popular
Question #7
A social status
B social knowledge
C social construct
D social with-it-ness
Question #8
A They probably just have different interests now.
B Her friend probably showed interest in a boy that your daughter likes.
C Her friend probably told her that she is moving to a new school.
D Her friend betrayed her trust.
Question #9
A Heidi, who is in Salima’s class, plays on her soccer team, and attends the church
B Gary, who was in Salima’s first grade class, invited her to his birthday party, and does poorly in school.
C Barbara, who is friends with Salima’s older brother and lives in the same neighborhood
D Tom, who attends Salima’s church but is in a different class and plays youth football
Question #10
A The biological father probably told the children to draw pictures of the family with him omitted to purposefully hurt his feelings.
B This is typical. There is quite a bit of disruption when a divorce occurs and children typically resent their stepfathers.
C You have no idea why his stepchild did this. The stepchild was probably confused.
D Not to worry. This picture was probably drawn before he was part of the family
Question #11
A coercive cycle
B mitigating forces
C the Cold War phenomenon
D escalation effect
Question #12
A internalizing problems
B existential problems
C externalizing problems
D incomplete dominance problems
Question #13
A low; positive
B high; negative
C high; positive
D low; negative
Question #14
A “Johnny pushed me and then took my toy truck”
B “I’m good at spelling but there are three kids in my class who are better than me.”
C “I’m really good at math.”
D “I’m a fast runner and I like soccer.”
Question #15
A social rejection
B social relations
C social comparison
D social template
Question #16
A I really love playing soccer, but I have a little difficulty shooting
B My soccer team is 4 and 1for the season.
C I like my soccer ball.
D I wish that I could play soccer all day long!
Question #17
A He would probably not express much in the way of emotions, as children in middle childhood are not very emotionally mature or responsive.
B He would have mixed emotions. He would be happy that he made it, but also sad that his study partner did not.
C He would be enormously happy that he made it. He worked hard to get to the next round.
D He would be enormously sad that his study partner did not make it to the next round and would not be able to find any joy in making it himself.
Question #18
A contentment and emotional stability
B unhappiness and emotional instability
C depression and anxiety
D agitation and feelings of being tense
Question #19
A universal; grown exponentially
B rare; increased substantially
C frequent; declined substantially
D unusual; disappeared
Question #20
A “It is generally not recommended to teach bilingualism as it is too much for the child to handle. Their brains are just not ready for it.”
B “If you want your son to be bilingual it is recommended that you wait until he is at least 14 to teach the second language. The brain is further developed at a later age.”
C “If you teach your child both English and Spanish his teacher will become frustrated and take it out on his grades. It is generally not recommended.”
D “Most of the research for bilingualism is positive. Sometimes children have difficulty with syntax; however, it is better to learn a second language sooner than later.”
Question #21
A unfavorable; interferes
B favorable; does not interfere
C detrimental; interferes
D stifling; does not interfere
Question #22
A literacy-based rating
B phonics-based reading
C sight words–based reading
D a whole-language approach to reading
Question #23
A practical intelligence
B logical–mathematical intelligence
C creative intelligence
D analytical intelligence
Question #24
A spatial intelligence
B intrapersonal intelligence
C bodily–kinesthetic intelligence
D musical intelligence
Question #25
A linguistic and logical–mathematical
B spatial and naturalistic
C interpersonal and intrapersonal
D musical and bodily–kinesthetic
Question #26
A evolution
B neurological development
C genetics
D environment
Question #27
A variance from the mean
B reaction range
C heritability ratio
D standard deviation
Question #28
A the higher the correlation in their IQ scores
B the less correlated their IQ scores are
C the greater the diversity in subskills on an intelligence test
D the greater the likelihood that there will be children with very low IQ scores in the family
Question #29
A normal distribution; bell
B camelback; double hill
C variance from the mean; absolute value
D inverted-U; inverted-V
Question #30
A knowledge base gets larger
B families help them remember
C strategies become more elaborate and purposeful
D brains get bigger
Question #31
A It is very common in the United States to treat ADHD with medication. About 90% of children with ADHD receive medication.
B That the neighbor is correct, the treatment of choice in the United States is relaxation therapy.
C It is very common in the United States for physicians to misdiagnose ADHD.
D That the neighbor is correct, there must be something else going on too. Medication is not the treatment of choice in the United States.
Question #32
A are slightly smaller and grow more slowly
B have a right hemisphere that is noticeably larger than the left hemisphere
C have neurofibulary tangling and plaques
D have a larger corpus collosum
Question #33
A Since his wife does not have ADHD the baby probably will not either.
B He does not need to worry, ADHD skips a generation.
C He is probably correct to worry, there is a genetic link for ADHD and boys are more likely to have it.
D He should worry, almost all children have ADHD today.
Question #34
A attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
B attention deficit disorder (ADD)
C attention displacement disorder (ADD)
D attention hypertensive disorder (AHD)
Question #35
A motivation and diligence
B attention and memory
C visual scanning and search routines
D decentering and critical processing
Question #36
A conservation
B parallelism
C seriation
D transitive inference
Question #37
A reversibility
B animism
C decentering
D egocentrism
Question #38
A “I can’t tell”
B “the ball”
C “they are both the same”
D “the long one”
Question #39
A Perhaps your brother should enroll his son in gymnastics to help him improve his coordination.
B His son’s chance of being a great baseball player are doomed. Your nephew’s fine motor skills seem to be abnormal.
C His son is probably not going to be athletic. He is too clumsy.
D Gross motor skills continue to develop for quite a while, he should be patient.
Question #40
A Obese children, not overweight children, are the happiest children in most cultures.
B Overweight children are at risk for a variety of emotional and behavior problems.
C Although overweight children tend to be happier compared to their peers, this is only true in adolescence, not earlier in childhood.
D Not only are they the happiest, they have the most friends.
Question #41
A ethnic minority groups
B high income families
C White American families
D first-generation families
Question #42
A emaciated; underweight
B obese; overweight
C underweight; emaciated
D overweight; obese
Question #43
A developing countries; reading, writing, and using computers
B developed countries; reading, writing, and using computers
C developed countries; hunting, farming, and gathering
D developing countries; hunting, farming, and gathering
Question #44
A sexual-social identity
B a sex schema
C gender socialization
D a biological construct
Question #45
A she should be concerned, but there is nothing that she can do
B she should be concerned; aggressive behavior in early childhood is a predictor of aggression in adolescence and adulthood
C as it turns out, very aggressive children during early childhood perform at superior levels in school
D she should not be concerned; most children in early childhood go through this phase and will eventually stop being aggressive
Question #46
A relational aggression
B verbal aggression
C hostile aggression
D instrumental aggression
Question #47
A Instrumental aggression; hostile aggression
B Physical aggression; relational aggression
C Relational aggression; physical aggression
D Hostile aggression; instrumental aggression
Question #48
A competitive play in which there are clear “winners”
B watching television and engaging in aggressive acting
C quiet play, role playing, fantasy, and cooperative play
D rough and tumble, high activity, and aggressive play
Question #49
A quiet play with many individuals cooperatively playing
B rough and tumble, high activity, and aggressive play
C very introspective play with considerable role playing
D watching television and acting out the roles they are watching
Question #50
A greater the likelihood that they would be aggressive and antisocial in adolescence
B the less likely that these children would graduate from high school
C the more likely they would be depressed and psychologically damaged as adults
D less likely they would be aggressive and antisocial in adolescence
Question #51
A Psychological control
B Authoritative parenting style
C An insecure attachment
D Corporal punishment
Question #52
A is common in Asian cultures where children are expected to respect, obey, and revere their parents throughout life
B is a cultural mandate that requires all parents to express high responsiveness and high demandingness to their children
C parents show a hands-off approach that is characteristic of low demandingness and low responsiveness
D is an emphasis of love, closeness, and mutual obligation within the Latino family
Question #53
A hypothetical or theoretical relationship
B one-way or unilateral relationship
C reciprocal or bidirectional relationship
D exponential or quadrupling relationship
Question #54
A permissive
B authoritative
C authoritarian
D disengaged
Question #55
A authoritative
B authoritarian
C permissive
D disengaged
Question #56
A disengaged
B authoritarian
C permissive
D authoritative
Question #57
A He should be concerned in that overcontrol is associated with depression and anxiety when she gets older.
B He should not be concerned; she will lighten up on her own soon.
C He has nothing to be concerned about. Overcontrol is associated with extraordinary academic success.
D He should be glad; a friend of yours has a child who has absolutely no self-regulation and that child is very hard to control.
Question #58
A aggression and conflict in early childhood and beyond
B not likely to have serious relationships as adults
C not realizing their academic potential
D ulcers and other physical problems
Question #59
A how prosody varies within language
B the grammatical quality of language
C the morphemic quality of language
D the pragmatic quality of language
Question #60
A a time period in which the learning of language must occur or it never will
B a time period in which the rules of language are best learned
C a time period in which children must be exposed to spoken language in order to learn it
D a time period in which the capacity for learning new words is especially pronounced
Question #61
A developmentally appropriate educational practice
B an instructional method that is as formal as the children understand
C the Socratic method
D Piaget’s model of readiness, as strictly as possible
Question #62
A education and training of teachers, class size and child–teacher ratio, age-appropriate materials and activities, and teacher–child interactions
B age-appropriate materials and activities, parenting styles of caregivers, temperament and reactivity of the children, and teacher–child interactions
C parenting style of the caregivers, quality of educational material, temperament and reactivity of the children, and class size and teacher–child ratio
D child temperament, the parenting style of the children’s home environment, physical facilities, and emotional reactivity of caregivers
Question #63
A Jean Piaget
B Lev Vygotsky
C Carl Rogers
D Sigmund Freud
Question #64
A Piaget overestimated children’s capabilities.
B Piaget underestimated children’s capabilities.
C Piaget was biased since his theory was mostly based on observation of his children.
D Piaget did not really like children.
Question #65
A representational operations
B symbolic function
C formal operations
D intuitive thought
Question #66
A pretending that they are on a different planet
B using a stick as a “magic wand” turning rocks into dolls
C leaving their footprints in the dirt
D engaging in play in which there are two or more teams
Question #67
A reversibility
B centration
C egocentrism
D animism
Question #68
A what she sees
B what you see
C what the story is about
D how many pages there are in the book
Question #69
A “They often attribute human thoughts and feelings to inanimate objects and forces.”
B “They often focus on one noticeable aspect of a cognitive problem to the exclusion of other important aspects.”
C “They have difficulty understanding that objects can be simultaneously part of more than one class or group.”
D “They lack the ability to distinguish between their own perspective and another person’s perspective.”
Question #70
A center
B operate
C tertiary operate
D conserve
Question #71
A throwing; writing
B running; jumping
C jumping; running
D writing; throwing
Question #72
A brain damage
B infantile amnesia
C childhood forgetfulness
D false memories
Question #73
A the reticular formation
B the hippocampus
C the corpus callosum
D the cerebellum