Question 1
Test Submission: Quiz 8 PSYC 221
Which word best describes Sternberg's experiential
element of intelligence?
Selected Answer: Creative
Question 2
Lucy is trying to remember all the things that she has to do
after school. She develops a little story in her head that
includes all of her after-school tasks. Which memory
strategy links items together in a story or scene?
Selected Answer: Elaboration
Question 3
The process of phonetic analysis, by which a printed word
is converted to spoken form before retrieval from long-term
memory, is called
Selected Answer: decoding
Question 4
Early teacher identification of children who exhibit social
problems may improve children's
Selected Answer: academic outcome.
Question 5
Omar is a remarkable gymnast, hoping for a spot on the
Olympic Team. According to Gardner, Omar would score
high on intelligence.
Selected Answer: bodily-kinesthetic
Question 6
Nick's third-grade teacher observes that he is impulsive,
inattentive, unable to tolerate frustration, prone to temper
tantrums, and unable to sit still during class. Which
disorder
does Nick meet the criteria for?
Selected Answer: Attention deficit/hyperactivity
disorder
Question 7
Carmella knows that a given amount of spaghetti remains
the same whether the spaghetti is in long strands or
broken into short pieces. She has acquired an
understanding of
Selected Answer: conservation.
Question 8
Piaget divided the development of children's moral
reasoning into
Selected Answer: three major stages culminating
with the concept of equity.
Question 9
Leigh is a highly gifted child who has skipped third grade
and is now taking advanced courses in specific subjects. In
which educational approach to teaching gifted children is
Leigh participating?
Selected Answer: Acceleration
Question 10
is the proficiency of reading and writing in two
different languages.
Selected Answer: Bilingualism
Question 11
Bob is asked to remember to get a loaf of bread at the
store, so he repeats over and over, "bread, bread, bread."
His memory strategy is an example of the technique called
Selected Answer
:
rehearsal.
Question 12
Pablo, who speaks Spanish, is in a second-language
education class where he interacts with English-speaking
and Spanish-speaking students in both English and
Spanish.
This method of second-language education is best
described as
Selected Answer: two-way learning.
Question 13
In Piaget's first stage of moral development, a child
Selected Answer: respects opinions of peers.
Question 14
By what age do children typically show pride and shame?
Selected Answer: 2 or 3
Question 15
Children who engage in
aggression frequently see
other children as trying to hurt them, and they strike out
angrily either in retaliation or in self-defense.
Selected Answer: hostile
Question 16
In middle childhood,
have more friends, and
have closer friends.
Selected Answer: boys; girls
Question 17
The virtue that develops with successful resolution of
Erikson's fourth psychosocial crisis is
Selected Answer: competence.
Question 18
In general, the more satisfied a mother is with her
employment status, the more effective she is likely to be
as
a parent. However, the effect of her work on her child can
depend on the child's
Selected Answer: all of these.
Question 19
According to your textbook, a father's degree of
involvement with his children tends to be related to the
Selected Answer: child's well-being.
Question 20
Broad, inclusive self-concepts that integrate various
aspects
of the self are called
Selected Answer: representational systems.
Question 21
When he was a baby, Charlie was adopted by a
homosexual
couple in New York. Now at age 17, numerous studies show
that Charlie has a 1 in 3 likelihood of
Selected Answer: None of these; there are no
consistent differences between children raised by
homosexual parents
and children raised by heterosexual parents.
Question 22
Which of the following coregulation attempts is an appeal
to moral values?
Selected Answer: "A big boy like you shouldn't sit on
the train
while an elderly person stands."
Question 23
Studies have found that children in one-parent families
tend to do less well socially and academically than do
children of two-parent families. Which of the following is
NOT a factor contributing to this trend?
Selected Answer: Popularity of children
Question 24
Coregulation is
Selected Answer:
a transitional stage of middle
childhood in which parent and child share control.
Question 25
The correlation between victimization by a bully and self-
esteem shows us that bullying victims tend to have low
self-esteem. From this correlation we can conclude
Selected Answer: None of these; correlation does
not prove
causation.
