Social and Emotional Development in Childhood Test Questions
Course Introduction
This course explores the fundamental processes and milestones of social and emotional development from infancy through childhood. Students examine key theories and research regarding attachment, self-concept, emotional regulation, moral development, and the influence of family, peers, and culture on a child's social world. The course emphasizes both typical and atypical patterns of development and considers practical strategies for fostering healthy social and emotional growth in diverse environments. Through readings, discussions, and case studies, students gain a comprehensive understanding of how children learn to interact with others, form relationships, and manage emotions throughout the early stages of life.
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Child Development 9th Edition by Laura E. Berk
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Chapter 1: History, Theory, and Applied Directions
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Q1) British philosopher John Locke viewed the child as A) tainted by original sin.
B) a tabula rasa.
C) a noble savage.
D) an active, purposeful being.
Answer: B
Q2) Central to Piaget's view of development is the concept of A) modeling.
B) reinforcement.
C) adaptation.
D) cultural identity.
Answer: C
Q3) According to Freud, the superego strengthens during the __________ stage. A) oral
B) anal
C) phallic
D) latency
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Research Strategies
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Q1) Which of the following is a major limitation of the clinical interview?
A) Participants may make up answers that do not represent their actual thinking.
B) It does not provide much insight into participants' reasoning or ideas.
C) The questions are phrased the same for each participant, regardless of their comprehension.
D) It overestimates participants' intellectual capacities.
Answer: A
Q2) When researchers need information on only one or a few kinds of behavior, an efficient procedure is
A) the clinical, or case study, method.
B) neurobiological sampling.
C) event sampling.
D) ethnography.
Answer: C
Q3) In time sampling, the observer records
A) all instances of a particular behavior during a specified time period.
B) all behaviors that occur during a specified time period.
C) whether certain behaviors occur during a sample of short intervals.
D) similar behavior patterns in participants who are the same age.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Biological Foundations, Prenatal Development, and Birth
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Q1) In __________, a hollow needle is inserted through the abdominal wall to obtain a sample of fluid in the uterus during the 14th week after conception or later.
A) fetoscopy
B) amniocentesis
C) ultrafast MRI
D) preimplantation genetic diagnosis
Answer: B
Q2) Although smoking has declined in Western nations, an estimated _____ percent of U.S. women smoke during their pregnancies.
A) 8
B) 11
C) 14
D) 17
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Infancy: Early Learning, Motor Skills, and Perceptual Capacities
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Q1) At birth, __________ is the least developed of the senses.
A) touch
B) smell
C) vision
D) hearing
Q2) In many mammals, the sense of smell plays an important role in
A) protecting the young from predators.
B) communicating a baby's discomfort.
C) choosing non-poisonous foods.
D) communicating danger.
Q3) Studies of familiarity preference show that infants
A) look longer at the features of a familiar person than the action in which the person is engaged.
B) are better at discriminating faces in static displays than in moving displays.
C) retain information much longer in operant conditioning studies than in habituation studies.
D) look longer at a familiar action than the features of the person engaging in the action.
Q4) Identify and describe useful techniques for soothing a crying baby.
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Chapter 5: Physical Growth
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true about the role of heredity in physical growth?
A) When diet and health are adequate, heredity has little effect on height and rate of growth.
B) Even if negative environmental influences are not severe, children show little catch-up growth once conditions improve.
C) Twin studies reveal that genetic makeup has little effect on body weight.
D) Genes influence growth by controlling the body's production of and sensitivity to hormones.
Q2) The __________ is responsible for thought-in particular, consciousness, attention, inhibition of impulses, integration of information, and use of memory, reasoning, planning, and problem-solving strategies.
A) cerebellum
B) parietal lobe
C) temporal lobe
D) prefrontal cortex
Q3) Summarize the major nutritional and health advantages of breastfeeding.
Q4) Discuss the factors that contribute to adolescent moodiness.
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Chapter 6: Cognitive Development: Piagetian, Core
Knowledge, and Vygotskian Perspectives
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Q1) The capacity to use __________ as a flexible symbolic tool improves from the end of the second into the third year.
A) make-believe
B) language
C) deferred imitation
D) the circular reaction
Q2) Which of the following would signal to Christie, a toddler, that her mother is engaging in make-believe play with her?
A) She smiles less and is more serious with Christie.
B) She uses more "we" talk than she would during the same real-life event.
C) She always waits for the cues to come from Christie before participating in make-believe play with Christie.
D) She rarely offers any cues, and so Christie has to learn on her own when her mother is pretending and when she is not.
Q3) Toddlers' ability to represent others' intentions
A) occurs later than Piaget predicted.
B) requires the refinement of reflexive schemes.
C) seems to have roots in earlier sensorimotor activity.
D) leads to gains in categorization.
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Chapter 7: Cognitive Development: an Information-Processing Perspective
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Q1) The set of cognitive operations and strategies necessary for self-initiated, purposeful behavior in relatively novel, challenging situations is known as
A) automatic processes.
B) the central executive.
C) system inputs.
D) executive function.
Q2) Individual differences on working-memory tasks are of particular concern because working-memory capacity
A) is dependent on long-term memory capacity.
B) predicts academic achievement in adolescence.
C) is essential for any automatic processes.
D) determines sensory register effectiveness.
Q3) Research on building memory suggests that
A) children learn how to structure personally significant memories in narrative form by conversing about them with adults.
B) fuzzy traces are more likely than verbatim memories to be forgotten.
C) children begin to talk about the past with others sometime during their third year.
D) scripts often clutter long-term memory with unimportant information.
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Chapter 8: Intelligence
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Q1) Ella is African American. As she goes through middle childhood, she will A) become less conscious of ethnic stereotypes.
B) become increasingly conscious of ethnic stereotypes.
C) be immediately assigned to remedial classes when she performs poorly on an IQ test.
D) be indifferent to ethnic stereotypes.
Q2) If Shayla's scholastic achievement is related to her IQ, how do some researchers explain this correlation?
A) IQ and achievement depend on the same abstract reasoning processes that underlie g.
B) The culturally specific information that predicts scholastic achievement is dependent on IQ.
C) Achievement is more closely related to fluid intelligence, whereas IQ is a closer measure of crystallized intelligence.
D) Shayla's scholastic achievements seem to be relatively unrelated to her experiences.
Q3) How stable are IQ scores, and how well do they predict academic achievement, occupational attainment, and psychological adjustment?
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Chapter 9: Language Development
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Q1) Which of the following statements is a limitation of Chomsky's nativist perspective?
A) Chomsky's theory cannot explain how children weave statements together into connected discourse and sustain meaningful conversations.
B) Chomsky's theory is inconsistent with research on efforts to teach language to nonhuman primates.
C) Chomsky's theory overemphasizes the role of social experience in language development.
D) Chomsky's theory ignores the existence of specialized regions in the brain that support language skills.
Q2) According to the principle of mutual exclusivity bias, children
A) assume that objects have multiple labels.
B) ignore the shapes of objects and focus instead on color distinctions.
C) assume that words refer to nonoverlapping categories.
D) discover the structure of sentences by relying on the meanings of words.
Q3) Describe early speech sounds, including the acquisition of communication skills during infancy and toddlerhood.
Q4) Summarize current theoretical views on how children acquire grammar.
Q5) Describe the nativist and interactionist perspectives of language development.
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Chapter 10: Emotional Development
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Q1) The dynamic interplay between emotion and cognition begins
A) in early infancy.
B) in toddlerhood.
C) during the preschool years.
D) during the elementary school years.
Q2) In Australia, infants who spend full days in government-funded child-care centers
A) show a mild decrease in saliva concentrations of cortisol across the day.
B) have a higher rate of secure attachment than infants informally cared for by relatives, friends, and babysitters.
C) have a lower rate of secure attachment than infants informally cared for by relatives, friends, and babysitters.
D) exhibit defiance and disobedience in middle childhood.
Q3) The powerful effects of __________ on temperament indicate that __________ is/are linked to maladaptive emotional reactivity in children.
A) the environment; persistent nutritional and emotional deprivation
B) heredity; large family size
C) SES; limited resources
D) birth order and gender; having four or more children
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Chapter 11: Self and Social Understanding
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Q1) When Vince receives a high test grade, he attributes it to luck; when he receives a low test grade, he attributes it to not being smart. Vince has developed
A) an incremental view of ability.
B) learned helplessness.
C) a mastery-oriented attribution.
D) conditional achievement motivation.
Q2) Narcissistic children with unrealistically high self-esteem because of overly tolerant, indulgent parenting
A) tend to be oblivious to what peers and others think of them.
B) rarely display any forms of meanness or aggression.
C) tend to lash out at peers who express disapproval.
D) are vulnerable to temporary, sharp peaks in self-esteem when their overblown self-images are challenged.
Q3) Beginning in __________, self-descriptions emphasize positive and negative traits.
A) early childhood
B) middle childhood
C) early adolescence
D) late adolescence
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Chapter 12: Moral Development
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Q1) Which of the following parenting behaviors is linked to aggression from early childhood through adolescence in diverse cultures?
A) reinforcement of prosocial modeling
B) inductive discipline
C) consistent discipline
D) power assertion
Q2) Which of the following statements is true about antisocial adolescents?
A) They are delayed in maturity of moral judgment.
B) They tend to view aggression as within the moral domain.
C) They score high in moral identity.
D) They have low self-esteem.
Q3) Dr. Milo believes that moral behavior is acquired through reinforcement and modeling. Dr. Milo's view is consistent with
A) the biological perspective.
B) psychoanalytic theory.
C) the social learning perspective.
D) Piaget's theory of moral development.
Q4) What is moral identity, and why is it important to identify its origins?
Q5) Describe the biological bases for morality.
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Chapter 13: Development of Sex Differences and Gender
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Q1) Reflecting the gender stereotypes of his age group, 4-year-old Youssef is likely to say that
A) it is OK for boys to dress up in skirts or jewelry.
B) girls cannot be doctors or police officers.
C) girls can grow up to be anything they want to be.
D) it is OK if boys want to play with dolls.
Q2) Mr. and Mrs. Finis want to reduce gender stereotyping in their 5-year-old twins, Emma and Erik. Mr. and Mrs. Finis should
A) punish Emma and Erik whenever they engage in gender-stereotyped behavior.
B) force Emma to play with cars and trucks and force Erik to play with dolls and pretend kitchen toys.
C) take turns making dinner, bathing Emma and Erik, and driving the family car and provide both Emma and Erik with trucks and dolls.
D) realize that biological factors are largely responsible for gender stereotyping and accept their children's gender-typed behavior and preferences.
Q3) Describe the development of gender constancy.
Q4) Explain the observed differences in the emotional sensitivity of girls and boys.
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Chapter 14: The Family
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Q1) Compared with other species, human children
A) develop faster.
B) are more attached to their family.
C) are more independent.
D) develop slowly.
Q2) When parents engage in effective coparenting, they tend to have
A) spoiled children who try to pit one parent against the other.
B) children with exceptionally high IQs.
C) secure attachment relationships with their children.
D) large families with four or more children.
Q3) Why have the functions of the family changed over time?
A) Most household functions were replaced with technology when both parents began working outside of the home.
B) As societies became more complex, the demands placed on the family became too much for it to sustain alone, so other institutions developed to assist with certain functions.
C) As family size decreased, children had to take on more adult responsibility.
D) The discovery of electricity allowed families more time together in the evening, which increased the need for family communication and emotional understanding.
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Chapter 15: Peers, Media, and Schooling
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Q1) Research reveals that with each school change (from elementary to middle or junior high and then to high school),
A) adolescents' grades increase.
B) adolescents' grades decline.
C) satisfaction with school increases.
D) adolescents' peer networks expand.
Q2) Kadin attends a school that includes multiage classrooms, teaching materials specially designed to promote exploration and discovery, long time periods for individual and small-group learning in child-chosen activities, and equal emphasis on academic and social development. Kadin attends a
A) private preschool.
B) Head Start program.
C) Montessori preschool.
D) boarding school.
Q3) An increasing number of studies show that playing violent video games
A) is like watching violent TV and increases hostility and aggression.
B) fosters selective attention and spatial abilities.
C) teaches children about the negative consequences of hostility and aggression.
D) is less harmful to children than watching violent TV.
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