Life Chapter 8

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According to Freud, the development of the anal stage occurs between what ages in children?
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1 to 3 years
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The authors of your text describe the period of early childhood in terms of which of the following?
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Stepping out
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Freud's view of children's development during the preschool years focuses on which two stages?
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Anal and phallic
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According to Erikson, a preschooler's development is centered on
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new mobility and the accompanying desire for autonomy.
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The preschool years, from age two to age six, include which two of Erikson's stages of development?
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Autonomy versus shame and doubt; initiative versus guilt
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Which of the following abilities initiates the Eriksonian crisis of initiative versus guilt?
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The ability to plan
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Which of the following is a central theme that emerges from both Freud's and Erikson's view of development during the preschool period?
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Families must balance their children's emerging skills and desire for autonomy with their parental need to protect and control their children.
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On which two factors do young children rely as they categorize or classify other people?
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Their most recent interactions with the person and the other person's observable characteristics
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According to your text, individuals are more likely to remember faces of people of their own race than those of a different race. This demonstrates which of the following principles?
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Cross-race effect
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Which of the following is an example of a social convention?
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Holding a door open for a stranger
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Which of the following best summarizes young children's understanding of intentions?
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Young children are more able to understand intentions than Piaget thought, but they are limited in their ability to base judgment on intentions.
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According to Li-Grining, how do children learn impulse control?
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Through social interactions which apply both positive reinforcement and negative punishment
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Tommy is a difficult child. His parents have finally given up on trying to control his impulsive behaviors. How is this likely to influence Tommy's social relationships?
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He is likely to have difficulty forming social relationships.
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In early childhood, what characterizes the development of the emotional self?
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Learning to control one's emotions
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What is the term that describes a child's ability to cheer themselves up when they are sad or calm themselves when they are angry?
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Emotional regulation
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As the categorical self and the emotional self mature, what new component of self-concept is likely to develop?
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Social self
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What is Hoffman's first stage of empathy development, which is characterized by an infant matching the strong emotion of another?
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Global empathy
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Tyler saw that his mother was upset. He toddled over to her and tried to hand her his bottle, as if to comfort her. Hoffman would say that Tyler is demonstrating which of the following?
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Egocentric empathy
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Georgia feels sad whenever she sees homeless people. She worries that they are cold at night and may not have enough to eat. Hoffman would suggest that Georgia is exhibiting which of the following?
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Empathy for another's life condition
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Which of the following best describes egocentric empathy?
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When a child attempts to ease another's discomfort by offering something that they themselves would find comforting
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Guilt, shame, and pride are all examples of which of the following?
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Moral emotions
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According to Koenig, Cicchetti & Rogosch (2004), what is likely to happen to a child who does not have a warm trusting relationship with their parents?
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They will not develop moral emotions.
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According to Freud, which of the following plays a key role in children's development of a gender role concept and a sex role?
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Identification
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Gender schema theory grew out of which of the following perspectives?
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Information processing
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Crystal labels boys and girls according to their hair style and the types of clothes they wear. Crystal has not yet developed which of the following?
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Gender schema
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Deion tells his mother that he will always be a boy and can never be a girl. This is an illustration of Deion's grasp of what principle?
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Gender constancy
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According to gender schema theory, which of the following will be true of a 5 or 6 year-old child?
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They will treat gender roles as absolute.
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By what age does a child's gender identity develop?
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Two years
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A child's ability to label his or her own sex correctly and to identify other people as men or women is called __________?
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Gender identity
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If Matthew understands gender stability, which of the following will he likely assume?
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That he will grow up and be a daddy
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Which of the following best summarizes the biological influence on the psychological differences between males and females?
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The presence or absence of testosterone prenatally has a strong influence on behavior.
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Multicultural studies have found similar gender stereotypes across cultures. Which of the following is a common gender stereotype for men?
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Competence
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Multicultural studies have found similar gender stereotypes across cultures. Which of the following is a common gender stereotype for women?
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Soft-heartedness
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By what age do children know that gender is permanent and look for roles as to how males and females should behave?
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5 - 6 years
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Which of the following is a style of communicating that usually involves girls using suggestions, support, and agreement between themselves?
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Enabling
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The constricting, or restrictive, pattern of interacting with playmates
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usually involves contradicting, boasting, or other types of self-display.
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Which of the following is an accurate statement about cross-gender behavior in childhood?
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Adults may disapprove of boys' cross-gender behavior because they fear it will lead to homosexuality.
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Which of the following terms is used to describe behavior that is not typical of one's own gender?
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Cross-gender
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Which of the following is an accurate statement about attachment relationships of children in early childhood teachers?
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Four- and five-year-olds who are securely attached to their parents are more likely than insecurely attached children to have positive relationships with their preschool
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Which of the following is the best description of Bowlby's goal-corrected partnership?
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The new level of attachment relationships that evolves around age four
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Which of the following best defines the term parenting styles?
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The characteristic strategies that parents use to manage children's behaviors
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Which of the following is one of the dimensions of family functioning conceptualized by Diana Baumrind in her study of parenting styles?
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Clear and consistent rules
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The parenting style that is high in nurturance and low in maturity
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demands, control, and communication is permissive.
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According to research, which parental characteristic is most consistently related to children's secure attachments, altruistic and empathetic behaviors, and school achievements?
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Warmth and nurturance
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Children with parents who have high maturity demands tend to exhibit which of the following personality traits?
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Higher self-esteem
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Authoritarian and authoritative parents would vary most widely on which of the following dimensions of parenting?
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Warmth and nurturance
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Which parenting style has the most consistently positive outcomes?
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Authoritative
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Will rarely turns in his school work and does not seem concerned when he gets bad grades. His parents seem to love him and they give him pretty much whatever he asks for and believe that most parents are too strict. When he was in trouble at school, Will's parents minimized the teacher's concerns as silly and did not punish Will. Which parenting style would you say best describes Will's parents?
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Permissive
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Which parenting style is associated with the most socially competent children?
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Authoritative
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When a child misbehaves and the parent responds by sticking to their rules, but does not assert unnecessary power over the child, which parenting style is being used?
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Authoritative
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Which of the following might contribute to neglecting or uninvolved parenting?
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Parental depression or overwhelming stress
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Which of the following is the best example of inductive discipline?
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Beverly's parents explained that she was being punished because it was wrong to take money from her mother's purse without permission.
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Children who have difficult temperaments and enjoy risk-taking will likely respond best to which type of discipline?
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Firm
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Which of the following is a negative consequence of spanking as a form of discipline?
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Modeling inflicting of pain to get what one wants
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Under which circumstances might spanking be used as effective punishment?
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To stop a behavior that might be harmful to the child
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In a study of how ethnicity and socioeconomic status interact with parenting styles, researchers found that which parenting style was linked to positive outcomes for African American and Asian American adolescents?
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Authoritarian
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Which of the following is the most likely reason that African American and Asian American families use an authoritarian parenting style with their children?
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Authoritarian parenting is believed to help children succeed and attain important goals.
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In the United States, approximately how many children live with both of their biological or adoptive parents?
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60%
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Your text reports that as of the year 2010, what percentage of children in the United States were living in two-parent homes?
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70%
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Beginning in the 1990s, which group experienced the most rapid growth in single motherhood?
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Middle class professional women
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Which statement regarding family structure and ethnicity is true?
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Single parent families are more common among African Americans and Native Americans than other groups.
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Children of gay or lesbian parents are
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develop sex-role identities in the same way as children of heterosexual parents.
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Which of the following changes in children would one expect to see in the first few years after divorce?
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They typically show more aggressive, defiant, or negative behavior.
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Which of the following is perhaps the most important factor that negatively affects children after a divorce?
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The shift away from an authoritative parenting style
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Justin borrowed a crayon from Jason. Both boys are coloring in separate coloring books. In what type of play are the boys engaging?
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Associative
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Which of the following is NOT a descriptive characteristic of 3-year-old boys who, according to some studies, have poor social relationships?
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Inductive influences
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When four-year-old Deidra wants an item or an activity, she will attack her parents with her fists until they laughingly and protestingly give her what she wants.
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Her parents' decision to give into Deidra's demands in this fashion will reinforce her behavior and possibly create a long-lasting pattern of aggression and defiance.
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Which of the following parental behaviors is linked to higher rates of altruistic or prosocial behavior in their children?
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Creating a loving and warm family environment
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Kyle and Tawnie are playing school. Kyle is pretending to be the teacher and Tawnie is pretending to be the student. Tawnie is well- behaved as a "student" and answers questions appropriately when Kyle asks them. Tawnie's behavior is an example of which of the following?
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role scripts
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Which of the following is one reason a child might experience peer rejection?
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poor group entry skills
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What is the term sociologists use for the Native American tradition of viewing parenting as the responsibility of the child's entire family, including grandparents and aunts and uncles?
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kin orientation
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Six-year-old Harry asks his mother if he can stay up until 9 p.m. on Friday night to watch a special educational TV program. His mother says, "We'll try it this once to see how it goes." What is Harry's mother's parenting style?
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Authoritative
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Which of the following is the best example of the typical pattern of parents' wishes for a two-year-old?
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When Muhammed's mother said, "Don't touch that! It's hot!" Muhammed pulled away from the stove.
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When 4-year-old Mariella thinks of activities, behaviors, or personal characteristics as being "for mommy" or "for daddy," she is using which of the following?
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gender schema
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Children who are able to classify other people into groups such as "people who are nice" and "people who are mean" are demonstrating which of the following?
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person perception
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Which of the following parental behaviors is linked to higher rates of altruistic or prosocial behavior in their children?
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Creating a loving and warm family environment
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By what age do children generally believe that it is more wrong for a child to hit another person than to forget to say "please"?
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two-to-three years
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"The psychological and social associates and implications of biological sex" defines which of the following?
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gender