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1
As reported in "New Calculator Factors Chances for Very Premature Infants," the extremely premature infants discussed here weigh less than 2.2 pounds, having been born after only 22-25 weeks of pregnancy, and in the United States each year the number of births that fall into this category is about
A)12,500
B)25,000
C)40,000
D)1 million
2
As noted in "New Calculator Factors Chances for Very Premature Infants," current decisions about using respirators, intravenous feeding, and other forms of intensive care are mostly based on
A)parental wishes.
B)availability of equipment.
C)ethical or religious considerations.
D)estimates of the baby's gestational age.
3
According to "New Calculator Factors Chances for Very Premature Infants," research has shown that, in an age range where one week is a highly significant factor for survival, a girl at 23 weeks could be as strong as a boy at 24 weeks.
A)True
B)False
4
As reported in "Genes in Context," the 1958 Cooper and Zubek study found that
A)a genetically derived characteristic appears independent of environment.
B)genetically enhanced animals were unaffected by an impoverished environment.
C)predictions of behavior must incorporate knowledge of environment.
D)enriched environments only benefitted genetically enhanced animals.
5
As indicated in "Genes in Context," DNA methylation
A)enhances the expression of DNA information.
B)has no effect on long-term gene activity.
C)increases the likelihood of transcription.
D)can lead to the silencing of a gene.
6
According to "Genes in Context," studies indicate that if DNA methylation is inhibited, there will be impairment in memory for the experience.
A)True
B)False
7
As noted in "Effects of Prenatal Social Stress on Offspring Development: Pathology or Adaptation?", a common characteristic of all approaches in studies of prenatal social influences is the induction of
A)social instability.
B)conflict.
C)predation.
D)resource scarcity.
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In "Effects of Prenatal Social Stress on Offspring Development: Pathology or Adaptation?" the authors suggest that among humans, androgen levels
A)are not affected by environmental factors.
B)remain stable during pregnancy.
C)do not influence the behavioral phenotype of offspring later in life.
D)may influence fetal central-nervous-system differentiation.
9
According to "Effects of Prenatal Social Stress on Offspring Development: Pathology or Adaptation?", studies suggest that the social environment does not represent an influential stressor.
A)True
B)False
10
As presented in "Infants' Differential Processing of Female and Male Faces," categorization is an important information-processing capability because it allows for
A)efficient allocation of cognitive resources.
B)instant recognition of unfamiliar people and objects.
C)accurate judgments about people and objects.
D)acceptance of all things, people, and situations.
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As noted in "Infants' Differential Processing of Female and Male Faces," one negative aspect of the ability to categorize is the possibility of
A)unwarranted trust.
B)stereotyping.
C)age-inappropriate activities.
D)choosing the wrong mate.
12
As stated in "Infants' Differential Processing of Female and Male Faces," research has shown that infants form prototypes of both female and male faces.
A)True
B)False
13
As pointed out in "The Other-Race Effect Develops During Infancy," a 2002 study concerning gender preference showed that three- to four-month-old infants raised primarily by a male caregiver demonstrated a visual preference for
A)the caregiver's race, regardless of gender.
B)no gender or race over another.
C)male rather than female faces.
D)female rather than male faces.
14
As disclosed in "The Other-Race Effect Develops During Infancy," 22 three-month-old infants were excluded from the authors' final analysis due to all of the following reasons, except
A)parental interference.
B)side bias during testing.
C)failure to habituate.
D)fussiness.
15
According to "The Other-Race Effect Develops During Infancy," the stimuli used in the authors' study were color images of faces from four ethnic groups, featuring differing shades of hair and eye colors.
A)True
B)False
16
As noted in "New Advances in Understanding Sensitive Periods in Brain Development," the idea that there are sensitive periods in neural, cognitive, and behavioral development first became widely known when Konrad Lorenz described the phenomenon of
A)filial imprinting.
B)critical sensitivity.
C)pivotal plasticity.
D)computational stimuli.
17
As explained in "New Advances in Understanding Sensitive Periods in Brain Development," the recent theory that post-natal functional brain development (at least within the cerebral cortex) involves a process of increased fine-tuning of response properties known as
A)individualized perception.
B)developmental consequence.
C)functional cognition.
D)interactive specialization.
18
As mentioned in "New Advances in Understanding Sensitive Periods in Brain Development," a major feature of sensitive periods is that plasticity appears to be markedly increased at the end of the period.
A)True
B)False
19
As explained in "Contributions of Neuroscience to Our Understanding of Cognitive Development," PKU is a disorder in the gene that codes for the enzyme
A)glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase.
B)phenylalanine hydroxylase.
C)malate oxidase.
D)2-hydroxyglutarate dehydrogenase.
20
As presented in "Contributions of Neuroscience to Our Understanding of Cognitive Development," a mechanism that could conceivably underlie the ability of newborns to show imitation rather automatically was provided through the discovery (by Rizzolatti et al.) of
A)ribonucleic acid.
B)mirror neurons.
C)the dopamine system.
D)phenylalanine.
21
As stated in "Contributions of Neuroscience to Our Understanding of Cognitive Development," neuroscience research has demonstrated that the brain is far less plastic than previously thought.
A)True
B)False
22
According to "Infant Feeding and Cognition: Integrating a Developmental Perspective," compared to mothers who do not breastfeed, breastfeeding mothers tend to
A)be younger.
B)be less well educated.
C)have lower IQs.
D)have more stable families.
23
As reported in "Infant Feeding and Cognition: Integrating a Developmental Perspective," infant formulas
A)have changed very little since they were first developed.
B)are required by law to contain Docosahexanoic Acid.
C)are continually evolving.
D)are not regulated by the government.
24
As stated in "Infant Feeding and Cognition: Integrating a Developmental Perspective," the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services contends that breastfeeding confers enhanced cognitive ability.
A)True
B)False
25
According to "Do Babies Learn from Baby Media?", in the video study, the group that learned the most was
A)the control group.
B)the video with no interaction group.
C)the video with interaction group.
D)the parent teaching group.
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As noted in "Do Babies Learn from Baby Media?", when parents were surveyed, it was found that
A)children learned more if their parents liked the DVD.
B)the more the parent liked the video, the more they thought the child had learned.
C)all parents underestimated how much their children learned.
D)parents accurately assessed how much their children learned from the video.
27
As pointed out in "Do Babies Learn from Baby Media?", babies learn a negligible amount from watching videos.
A)True
B)False
28
As observed in "Developmental Narratives of the Experiencing Child," a capacity that generally emerges in the fourth year of life is
A)spontaneous emergence of knowledge sharing.
B)shift from nonverbal to verbal expression of mental content.
C)proficiency in the representational use of language.
D)forming memories of past experiences.
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As reported in "Developmental Narratives of the Experiencing Child," the key motif in the narrative of the experiencing child is a focus on
A)what is available to the child in his or her specific culture.
B)the social context of the child.
C)the child as explorer.
D)specific interactive encounters in the child's experience.
30
According to "Developmental Narratives of the Experiencing Child," the human brain is more mature at birth than the brain of other primates.
A)True
B)False
31
As reported in "Social Cognitive Development: A New Look," the degree of positivity of children's evaluations of their peers
A)depends on external factors only.
B)may be influenced by arbitrary similarities.
C)depends on internal factors only.
D)is based on the choices made by peers.
32
As stated in "Social Cognitive Development: A New Look," Markson and Fawcett found that children deemed as more preferable playmates were those who
A)shared their belongings.
B)were obvious leaders.
C)had different preferences in toys and foods.
D)had similar preferences in toys and foods.
33
According to "Social Cognitive Development: A New Look," studies suggest that infants do not have well-formed expectations about human interaction.
A)True
B)False
34
According to "Evidence of 'Rose-Colored Glasses': An Examination of the Positivity Bias in Young Children's Personality Judgments," the period of life in which the positivity bias generally peaks is
A)infancy.
B)middle childhood.
C)adolescence.
D)adulthood.
35
As noted in "Evidence of 'Rose-Colored Glasses': An Examination of the Positivity Bias in Young Children's Personality Judgments," research suggests that the group of children with the highest levels of self-perceived competence is
A)Korean.
B)Japanese.
C)Asian Indian.
D)American.
36
As reported in "Evidence of 'Rose-Colored Glasses': An Examination of the Positivity Bias in Young Children's Personality Judgments," children tend to view negative traits as more stable than positive traits.
A)True
B)False
37
As reported in "Talking about Science in Museums," a child's retention of event information appears to be most strongly related to
A)observant silence.
B)child-only talk.
C)joint verbal exchanges.
D)mother-only talk.
38
As stated in "Talking about Science in Museums," research on age-related differences in scientific thinking shows that children
A)are stronger than adults at recognizing variables.
B)readily repeat research that does not agree with preconceptions.
C)do not understand the concept of experimentation.
D)are less likely to jump to conclusions as they get older.
39
According to "Talking about Science in Museums," partial or fragmentary explanations offered to children undermine scaffolding of scientific concepts.
A)True
B)False
40
As disclosed in "Should Learning Be Its Own Reward?", in Tucson, Arizona, high-school juniors selected from low-income areas will be paid up to $25 each week for
A)staying out of trouble.
B)doing their homework.
C)keeping a daily journal.
D)attending school.
41
As enumerated in "Should Learning Be Its Own Reward?", the important guidelines for implementing an effective reward system include all of the following, except
A)do not use rewards unless you have to.
B)do not use rewards that involve food or money.
C)use rewards for a specific reason.
D)use rewards for a limited time.
42
As observed in "Should Learning Be Its Own Reward?", moral questions are outside the purview of cognitive science.
A)True
B)False
43
According to "Recess—It's Indispensable!", research on recess indicates that
A)test scores improve when recess is reduced.
B)a majority of school systems have reduced recess since No Child Left Behind was enacted.
C)some schools cut back on recess out of fear from lawsuits from playground injuries.
D)recess results in more bullying.
44
Comparing recess to physical education, the author of "Recess—It's Indispensable!" points out that
A)children are more physically active during physical education than recess.
B)physical education can serve as a substitute for recess.
C)teacher supervision of physical education and recess is the same.
D)recess and physical education serve different functions.
45
As stated in "Recess—It's Indispensable!", recess before rather than after lunch leads to healthier eating.
A)True
B)False
46
As reported in "Social Awareness + Emotional Skills = Successful Kids," critics of social and emotional learning programs contend that
A)there is no correlation between social competence and academic achievement.
B)mental health is too difficult to improve.
C)social and emotional learning should not fall on teachers.
D)social and emotional learning programs are an intrusion on privacy.
47
As noted in "Social Awareness + Emotional Skills = Successful Kids," a study of the Seattle social development programs
A)found a higher graduation rate among participants.
B)studied high-school students exclusively.
C)found no long-term effects.
D)saw no correlation between participation and mental health.
48
According to "Social Awareness + Emotional Skills = Successful Kids," the Collaboration for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning finds the majority of social and emotional learning programs exemplary for being well-designed and evidence-based.
A)True
B)False
49
According to "Kindergarteners Explore Spirituality," the foremost advice offered by the authors for incorporating issues of religious diversity in the classroom is to
A)bring in experts.
B)listen.
C)model kindness.
D)involve parents.
50
As reported in "Kindergarteners Explore Spirituality," the name of the Beliefs Project was originally the
A)Heart Project.
B)Faith Project.
C)God Project.
D)Love Project.
51
As noted in "Kindergarteners Explore Spirituality," the United States is the world's most religiously diverse nation.
A)True
B)False
52
As reported in "Don't!: The Secret of Self-Control," Walter Mischel's conclusion from the marshmallow test was that self-control was determined by
A)self-perception of need.
B)awareness of circumstances.
C)strategic allocation of attention.
D)native intelligence.
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As noted in "Don't!: The Secret of Self-Control," Angela Duckworth found that
A)learning algebra improves self-control.
B)delay of gratification is a better predictor of academic performance than intelligence is.
C)self-control is not a genuine character trait.
D)there is little correlation between delay of gratification and academic success.
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According to "Don't!: The Secret of Self-Control," Walter Mischel was able to improve children's delay times by teaching a simple set of mental tricks.
A)True
B)False
55
According to "The Moral Life of Babies," psychological studies have found that babies
A)are not attracted to anything they do not understand.
B)have expectations about how objects should behave.
C)do not like surprises.
D)have no concept of motion.
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Discussing babies' naive understanding of psychology, the author of "The Moral Life of Babies" notes that babies
A)think that inanimate objects move the same way as people.
B)have no concept of rational movement.
C)have no grasp of the idea of false beliefs.
D)like to look at faces.
57
As reported in "The Moral Life of Babies," research suggests that babies can do rudimentary math with objects.
A)True
B)False
58
As reported in "Social Context Influences on Children's Rejection by Their Peers," a principle proposed by the authors is that reducing peer rejection
A)should focus on the deficits in the rejected child.
B)requires understanding the factors in the rejected child's social context that affect rejection.
C)requires establishment of a rigid social-dominance hierarchy
D)should not involve changing instructional strategies.
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As stated in "Social Context Influences on Children's Rejection by Their Peers," the predominant peer-group setting in which children's peer status is determined is the
A)residential neighborhood.
B)family.
C)classroom.
D)play group.
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According to "Social Context Influences on Children's Rejection by Their Peers," among emotionally disturbed children, aggressive behavior is universally more rejected than withdrawn behavior.
A)True
B)False
61
Discussing the role of social evaluative threat in day care situations, the author of "Same Place, Different Experiences: Bringing Individual Differences to Research in Child Care" notes that child-care environments
A)involve no risk of being rejected or ignored.
B)have equally negative implications for all children.
C)confront children with the challenge of negotiating relations with other children.
D)contain aggressive behavior to prevent negative peer interactions.
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As noted in "Same Place, Different Experiences: Bringing Individual Differences to Research in Child Care," greater exposure to child care has been associated with increased internalizing behavior for children
A)characterized as temperamentally positive as infants.
B)characterized as fearful of novelty.
C)with emotionally reactive temperaments.
D)who are easily frustrated.
63
As reported in "Same Place, Different Experiences: Bringing Individual Differences to Research in Child Care," children portrayed by their mothers as temperamentally difficult during infancy were more susceptible to variation in both quality and amount of day care.
A)True
B)False
64
As noted in "When Girls and Boys Play," by the time children reach school age, play typically becomes
A)more complicated and less "fun."
B)replaced by television.
C)a social activity.
D)secondary to school work.
65
As reported in "When Girls and Boys Play," when trained college students used conflict-resolution strategies with children in grades 1–6 during recess, there was a significant reduction in targeted inappropriate behavior only among the
A)first and second graders.
B)fifth and sixth graders.
C)girls.
D)boys.
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As related in "When Girls and Boys Play," Goodwin found in her 2001 research that in the natural course of playing their chosen games, boys are more likely to exclude others from their play than are girls.
A)True
B)False
67
According to "Playtime in Peril," skills best learned through play include
A)reading.
B)writing.
C)critical thinking.
D)math.
68
As indicated in "Playtime in Peril," the common root for the disappearance of play time is
A)lack of tolerance for disorder.
B)need to be in control.
C)concern for injury.
D)fear of falling behind.
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As reported in "Playtime in Peril," preschoolers learn best when all they do is play.
A)True
B)False
70
As defined in "The Role of Neurobiological Deficits in Childhood Antisocial Behavior," the term that refers to the fact that "people who are on the receiving end of the behavior are disadvantaged by it, and that social norms and values are violated" is
A)antisocial behavior.
B)asocial behavior.
C)dissocial behavior.
D)amoral behavior.
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As cited in "The Role of Neurobiological Deficits in Childhood Antisocial Behavior," Raine et al. found that low resting heart rate at age 3 predicted
A)marked shyness at age 12.
B)relaxed confidence by age 9 or 10.
C)diagnosed autism by age 6.
D)aggressive behavior at age 11.
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As noted in "The Role of Neurobiological Deficits in Childhood Antisocial Behavior," most research has focused on identifying specific contextual factors that impinge on the developing child.
A)True
B)False
73
According to "Children of Lesbian and Gay Parents," a major problem with early research that compared children of lesbian mothers and children of heterosexual mothers was that
A)researchers tended to slant the results against the lesbian mothers.
B)the children of lesbian mothers had so many problems that they were difficult to study.
C)all the children studied had been born into a heterosexual family structure.
D)the studies proved of little value in divorce and child custody cases.
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As explained in "Children of Lesbian and Gay Parents," the Bay Area Families Study was one of the first studies to look at children who were
A)born to or adopted early in life by lesbian mothers.
B)being raised by lesbian mothers in heterosexual relationships.
C)adopted by gay men.
D)gay or lesbian and being raised by heterosexual couples.
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As stated in "Children of Lesbian and Gay Parents," one of the problems with the Bay Area Families Study was that the study participants were self-selected.
A)True
B)False
76
As disclosed in "Evidence of Infants' Internal Working Models of Attachment," the authors' study involved the measurement of attachment security in the lab using the
A)Variable Cap-Stop.
B)Lorenz Method.
C)Strange Situation.
D)Skinner Box.
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As described in "Evidence of Infants' Internal Working Models of Attachment," the mother and child viewed by the test infants were videos of
A)a chimpanzee and her baby.
B)a human mother and infant.
C)two animated teddy bears, one large and one small.
D)two animated ellipses, one large and one small.
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According to "Evidence of Infants' Internal Working Models of Attachment," a mixed analysis of variance with attachment status and outcome as variables revealed no differences between secure and insecure infants in the overall time they looked at the test displays.
A)True
B)False
79
In exploring the research on the effects of divorce on children, the author of "Parental Divorce and Children's Adjustment" found that
A)there is no correlation between parental divorce and academic achievement.
B)most children whose parents divorce have long-term negative outcomes.
C)intergenerational transmission of divorce is not mediated by interpersonal skill deficits.
D)adults whose parents divorce have lower quality relationships with parents during adulthood.
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As reported in "Parental Divorce and Children's Adjustment," Amato and Keith's meta-analyses have found that
A)the effect of divorce became more pronounced in the United States from the 1950s to the 1980s.
B)divorce is more stigmatized in the United States than in most places.
C)stigmatization is a definite moderator of the link between parents' divorce and children's adjustment.
D)studies on divorce conducted outside the United States found more problems with children's conduct than U.S. studies.
81
According to "Parental Divorce and Children's Adjustment," a higher percentage of single parents live in poverty than parents in two-parent families.
A)True
B)False
82
As observed in "Within-Family Differences in Parent–Child Relations Across the Life Course," when studying children's perceptions of PDT, scholars have increasingly used the
A)Sibling Inventory of Differential Experience.
B)Psychoanalytic Study of the Child.
C)Biblical story of Israel favoring his last-born son Joseph.
D)novel Beach Music by Pat Conroy.
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As claimed in "Within-Family Differences in Parent–Child Relations Across the Life Course," favoritism is more common when parents experience marital problems and when children
A)have a competitive relationship.
B)are close in age.
C)have serious health problems.
D)are of the same gender.
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As analyzed in "Within-Family Differences in Parent–Child Relations Across the Life Course," even across studies using subjects in the same structural position in the family and the same mode of data collection (e.g., interview), the measurement of PDT varies considerably.
A)True
B)False
85
According to "The Role of Parental Control in Children's Development in Western and East Asian Countries," behavioral control
A)is equated with parental domination.
B)erodes the child's individual autonomy.
C)inherently entails intrusiveness.
D)has positive effects on children's development.
86
As indicated in "The Role of Parental Control in Children's Development in Western and East Asian Countries," Iyengar and Lepper's culture-specific perspective contends that
A)parental control is more negative in East Asian contexts.
B)East Asians value autonomy over harmony.
C)East Asian culture equates parental control with rejection.
D)taking on parental decisions as their own gives East Asian children an opportunity for harmony.
87
As stated in "The Role of Parental Control in Children's Development in Western and East Asian Countries," parental control is more common in East Asia than in the West.
A)True
B)False
88
According to "The Fatal Distraction," characteristics that keep showing up in infant deaths in closed cars include
A)unusually hot summers.
B)teen parents.
C)lack of education.
D)stressed parents.
89
As reported in "The Fatal Distraction," Miles Harrison was found not guilty because
A)there were extenuating circumstances.
B)he was under a doctor's care.
C)there was no criminal intent.
D)the facts of the case were in dispute.
90
As pointed out in "The Fatal Distraction," Raelyn Balfour admitted that her propensity to take on multiple challenges at once contributed to her son's death.
A)True
B)False
91
As suggested in "Siblings Play Formative, Influential Role as 'Agents of Socialization'," parents are better than siblings at teaching
A)the behaviors that constitute the bulk of a child's everyday experiences.
B)how not to embarrass oneself at the dinner table.
C)how to act as school.
D)how to act cool around friends.
92
As reported in "Siblings Play Formative, Influential Role as 'Agents of Socialization'," Laurie Kramer of the University of Illinois contends that
A)gender differences have a huge impact on sibling relationships and influence.
B)children without siblings are less socially competent.
C)siblings widely spaced in age respond differently in the home than those closer together in age.
D)parents of only children should think of ways to provide social experiences.
93
According to "Siblings Play Formative, Influential Role as 'Agents of Socialization'," a female teen is at higher risk for getting pregnant if her older sister was a teenage mother.
A)True
B)False
94
As noted in "Sibling Experiences in Diverse Family Contexts," compared with siblings in some non-Western cultures, siblings in the United States have
A)fewer expectations of fair treatment.
B)fewer rights and responsibilities for one another.
C)more clearly defined roles.
D)more financial obligations for one another.
95
As stated in "Sibling Experiences in Diverse Family Contexts," factors that studies have identified specifically in African American families include
A)maternal experiences with racism were linked with high sibling warmth.
B)parental spirituality was linked with sibling negativity.
C)high sibling negativity was associated with lower risky behavior.
D)lower ethnic identity was associated with sibling emotional distance.
96
According to "Sibling Experiences in Diverse Family Contexts," conflict between parents increases sibling hostility and emotional distance.
A)True
B)False
97
As discussed in "Independence and Interdependence in Children's Development Experiences," within the traditional dichotomous understanding of independence and interdependence, the epitome of an independence orientation is usually considered to be
A)Japanese.
B)South African.
C)Russian.
D)European-American.
98
As reported in "Independence and Interdependence in Children's Development Experiences," European-Americans in an upper-income community differ from lower-income European-Americans in the high value they place on
A)appreciating one's psychological uniqueness.
B)self-assertion.
C)perseverance.
D)self-confidence.
99
As stated in "Independence and Interdependence in Children's Development Experiences," conceptions of children's independence and interdependence are construed in relation to varied societal processes that permeate the exigencies of people's lives.
A)True
B)False
100
In discussing parents' dealing with children after disasters, the author of "Treating Traumatized Children," notes that
A)adolescents get the bulk of the attention.
B)parental support can mitigate distress.
C)parents tend to overestimate children's level of distress.
D)most parents see no need for outside assistance.
101
As reported in "Treating Traumatized Children," the strongest association with serious emotional disturbances in children who had lived in New Orleans prior to Katrina was in cases of
A)loss of family home.
B)relocation out of the area.
C)physical injury.
D)death of a loved one.
102
As stated in "Treating Traumatized Children," children have more sedentary behavior if they have been affected by a hurricane.
A)True
B)False
103
According to "Learning to Eat in an Obesogenic Environment," chief among traditional child-feeding practices is
A)avoidance of high calorie foods.
B)focus on eating slowly.
C)focus on eating quickly.
D)intake beyond satiation.
104
As reported in "Learning to Eat in an Obesogenic Environment," demographic groups at higher risk of obesity include all of the following except
A)American Indians.
B)Asian Americans.
C)African Americans.
D)Hispanics.
105
As noted in "Learning to Eat in an Obesogenic Environment," rewarding a child for consuming a food increased school-age children's consumption of that food.
A)True
B)False
106
As reported in "Childhood's End," the children the author calls "night commuters"
A)have become killers.
B)are routinely brutalized by the people of Gulu.
C)are fleeing the Lord's Resistance Army.
D)have no hope.
107
As identified in "Childhood's End," the primary victims of the Lord's Resistance Army are
A)Ugandan army officers.
B)Sudanese tribesmen.
C)the elderly.
D)the Acholi people.
108
As stated in "Childhood's End," Sudan is not a signatory of the treaty that established the International Criminal Court.
A)True
B)False
109
As noted in "The Positives of Caregiving: Mothers' Experiences Caregiving for a Child with Autism," in discussing the result of their caregiving experience, all of the mothers said they
A)lost confidence in themselves.
B)felt personally transformed.
C)blamed themselves for every reversal.
D)had few positive feelings.
110
As reported in "The Positives of Caregiving: Mothers' Experiences Caregiving for a Child with Autism," the study assumed that the mothers involved had a great deal of stress because
A)they were all over 40 years old.
B)their children all had multiple disabilities.
C)all of their children were eventually placed outside the home.
D)they all had stress-related illnesses.
111
As observed in "The Positives of Caregiving: Mothers' Experiences Caregiving for a Child with Autism," research suggests that the burden of caregiving for children with autism is greater than that of parenting a child with other disabilities.
A)True
B)False
112
The author of "Caring for Chronically Ill Kids," defines as a "clinician's fallacy" the
A)idea that depression is common among caregivers.
B)concept of the under-involved parent.
C)belief that adolescents need help managing care.
D)concept of the over-involved parent.
113
According to "Caring for Chronically Ill Kids," in a study on asthma management, the most significant factor in whether a child's medication protocol was followed was
A)cost of the medication.
B)caregiver beliefs about asthma management.
C)severity of symptoms.
D)taste of the medication.
114
As noted in "Caring for Chronically Ill Kids," the majority of mothers of adolescent cancer survivors reported at least one positive outcome stemming from the illness.
A)True
B)False
115
As mentioned in "Getting Back to the Great Outdoors," the argument that humans have an innate affinity for the natural world is central to biologist Edward O. Wilson's theory of
A)forest-fondness.
B)enviro-attraction.
C)the inner outdoors.
D)biophilia.
116
As reported in "Getting Back to the Great Outdoors," sociologist Sandra Hofferth conducted a study showing that between 1997 and 2003, the amount of time children ages 9 to 12 spent in outdoor activities such as hiking, horseback riding, fishing, camping, and gardening declined by
A)5 percent
B)18 percent
C)30 percent
D)50 percent
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As suggested in "Getting Back to the Great Outdoors," children who have not developed a connection to the natural world will most likely not have much affiliation with or concern for Mother Nature when they are adults.
A)True
B)False





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