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Ψ Note: These questions are part of a larger data base of questions on Chapter 13 & are selected to represent the type of question you should expect on unit four. You can, in fact, expect to see many of these very same questions on that exam. Exam questions, however, may deal with topics not covered in the self tests or in lectures but are discussed in your textbook. You are responsible for the content of your text book plus the content of lectures, interactive activities, & material on the web site.
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1. Freud would expect eight year old Kurt to experience
2. During the latency stage, children
 assimilate cultural values.
learn self control.
establish their identity.
develop sexual feelings toward the opposite-sex parent.
3. Social cognition refers to
the ability to learn about societies.
the ability to act in a leadership role.
an understanding of human personality & intentions.
mastery of classification & causality.
4. Which of the following decrease during the school years?
self-understanding
self-regulation
self-criticism
self-esteem
5. During the school years, children realize that people
can have ambivalent feelings.
can experience only one emotion at a time.
are not able to disguise emotions.
rarely show their emotions.
6. In social comparison, children do not compare themselves to standards set by
their own past behavior.
teachers.
parents.
peers.
7. A child's peer group does not usually provide
advice.
companionship.
standard of behavior.
a zone of proximal development.
8. School age children would most admire
Ed, whose mother kisses him good-bye.
Kyle, who was punished for not telling.
Kim, who is the teacher's favorite.
Kurt, who spends a lot of time with adults.
9. Unlike younger children, older children
believe that friends should help each other.
find it harder to make new friends.
believe that friends are people who do things together.
have friendships that are less intense.
10. Most children develop social cognition from
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11. 60% of bullying incidents involve
12. The key word in the definition of bullying is
attacks.
repeated.
intolerant,
abused.
13. Both bullies and victims assume that
it is not serious.
the current situation is ok.
classmates will intervene.
adults will not intervene.
14. Open style families
work best when schools or neighborhoods are chaotic.
work best with a defiant or demanding child.
value contributions from every family member.
set strict guidelines, limits, and rules.
15. Family structure refers to
who belongs to a family & how they are related.
how well a family raises its children.
how the family's house is build.
how the generations interact.
16. The level of a child's distress from divorce depends on
stability of the family income.
adequacy of the care giving.
conflict in the parent's relationship.
all of these
17. Which of the following is not a stage-salient task for resilient children?
peer acceptance
biological equilibrium
behavioral control
academic engagement
18. Social support does not come from
a tv hero.
a pet.
grandparents.
religious faith.
19. Two parent homes when compared to single parent homes usually have
20. Who is most likely to overcome serious problems in the family?
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21. Which of the following is not a label for a distinct type of unpopular child?
22. Social cognition has a closely related ability called ________ ______.
23. Preconventional morality involves
trying to gain the approval of others.
an emphasis on law and order.
an emphasis on reward and punishment.
the careful consideration of all options.
24. Kohlberg developed a famous theory of the development of
moral actions.
moral reasoning.
cultural differences in ethics.
gender differences in morality.
25. The development of moral attitudes
occurs when a person becomes responsible for their actions.
occurs when formal operational thought is attained.
begins at the same time as language development.
is a lifelong process.
26. Kohlberg has been criticized because his theory of moral development
27. Gilligan believed that men are less likely to follow a "morality of care" because they are more
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Lifespan Growth & Development
Robert C. Gates
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In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.
- Sigmund Freud
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Practice Test for Middle Childhood: Psychosocial Development 