Multiple choice

1. Research indicates that the link between family size and children’s IQ can be explained by the 

A. Flynn effect. 

B. strong trend for mothers lower in intelligence to give birth to more children. 

C. strong trend for mothers higher in intelligence to give birth to more children. 

D. growing use of birth-control techniques. 

2. Compared with popular-aggressive children, rejected-aggressive children are 

A. more socially skilled. 

B. less antagonistic and more prosocial. 

C. more often extremely antagonistic. 

D. popular with younger peers. 

3. Most of the 1,500 children who die from maltreatment each year 

A. are under age five. 

B. are adolescents. 

C. leave siblings behind who remain with the abusive parents. 

D. had been referred to the social-services system, but their case hadn’t yet been investigated. 

4. Anxious, withdrawn children who _______ seem better equipped to withstand peer attacks. 

A. take self-defense classes 

B. learn to project a sense of false bravado 

C. learn meditation techniques 

D. who have a prosocial best friend