Q: _______ is to only focus on one variable at a time.
What is A: Centration
100
Q: A child classified as a “Tomboy” is showing what kind of behavior?
A) Gender Behavior
B) Cross-gender Behavior
C) Neutral Behavior
D) Masculine Behavior
What is A: B) Cross-gender Behavior
100
Q: Nearly 1 in 5 children in America is ______ and has the most serious long-term health risk of middle childhood.
What is A: Obese
100
Q: What Big Five Personality Trait has qualities including being anxious, self-pitying, tense, touchy, unstable, and worrying?
A) Extraversion
B) Agreeableness
C) Neuroticism
D) Openness
What is A: C) Neuroticism
100
Q: What parenting style involves parents who score low in nurturance, maturity demands, control, and communication?
A) Permissive
B) Authoritarian
C) Uninvolved
D) Authoritative
What is A: C) Uninvolved
200
Q: If a child believes their stuffed animal dog is hungry or sick what is this known as?
A) Egocentrism
B) Conservation
C) Animalistic Thinking
D) Theory of Mind
What is A: C) Animalistic Thinking
200
Q: Gender identity is the ________ of self as masculine or feminine characteristics
What is A: Perception
200
Q: What is the integration of a child with learning disabilities into mainstream classrooms?
A) ADHD
B) Dyslexia
C) Inclusive Education
D) Integration
What is A: C) Inclusive Education
200
Q: Moral relativism involves children beginning to view rules as _______, or socially agreed on principles that can be revised to reflect the opinion of majority.
What is A: Flexible
200
Q: What is the most common cause of school absence among 6-12 year olds?
A) Influenza
B) Asthma
C) Strep Throat
D) Common Cold
What is A: B) Asthma
300
Q: What is it called when children use language to communicate but don’t understand the symbolic nature?
A) Primitive Stage
B) Ingrowth Stage
C) Private Speech Stage
D) Naïve Psychology Stage
What is A: D) Naïve Psychology Stage
300
Q: What is the third stage of empathy development?
A) Global Empathy
B) Empathy for another’s life condition
C) Empathy for another’s feelings
D) Egocentric Empathy
What is A: C) Empathy for another’s feelings
300
Q: Which of Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory of Intelligence is associated with having street smarts?
A) Contextual
B) Experiential
C) Mutual
D) Componential
What is A: A) Contextual
300
Q: At what level do children have friendships that are made easily and end easily?
A) Level 5
B) Level 1
C) Level 2
D) Level 8
What is A: B) Level 1
300
Q: Bandura used the term ______ to refer to the emotional or cognitive component
What is A: Person component
400
Q: What fine motor skills is a child 4-5 years old capable of?
What is A: Strike a ball with a bat, kick and catch a ball, thread beads on a string, and properly grasp a pencil.
400
Q: Explain the difference between instrumental and hostile aggression.
What is A: Instrumental aggression is when a child wants to damage an object. Hostile aggression is when a child wants to hurt another person or gain advantage of another individual.
400
Q: List Gardner’s eight Multiple Intelligences.
What is A: Linguistic, Logico-Mathematical, Musical, Spatial, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Naturalist, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal.
400
Q: What two factors help the development of self-esteem?
What is A: Factors that help shape a child’s self-esteem include the amount of discrepancy a child experiences between their goals and achievement of those goals. They also develop self-esteem by social support from friends and peers.
400
Q: Describe how fast-mapping helps children in early childhood learn new words.
What is A: Fast mapping involves children using categories to learn new words. They rapidly form meaning of new words based on words they previously know. This is a fast and effective way children learn new words.
500
Q: What shared and non-shared environmental influences contribute to intelligence?
What is A: Shared- family’s role in education, toys and physical/complex environment, excessive restriction punishment is avoided.
Non-shared- heredity, sibling birth order, and quality of educational programs.
500
Q: Describe the Authoritarian parenting style and the effect on the child.
What is A: These parents place control over their children physically, socially, and emotionally. They are more demanding and controlling than nurturing. They also don’t have that great of communication with their children. The results of this kind of parenting are overall lower grades compared to children in other parenting environments. They also have lower self-esteem and less skilled with their peers.
500
Q: Describe the developments of the brain in middle childhood.
What is A: Major brain growth spurts occur during the ages 6 to 8 and 10 to 12 years old. Developments in logic and planning occur. Children also develop selective attention, spatial perception, and information processing speed increases.
500
Q: Describe the main differences among school-aged boys and girls regarding aggression.
What is A: Boys tend to show higher amounts of physical and direct verbal aggression compared to girls. Girls tend to show more relational aggression which involves damaging another’s self-esteem or relationships among peers. It is more common to see school-aged boys physically harming one another while girls will gossip or write mean things about one another.
500
Q: What physical changes occur for children in the middle childhood stage?
What is A: During this time, growth does not occur as rapidly as it does in the earlier stages of life. Every year children typically grow about 2 or 3 inches and may gain as much as 6 pounds. Boys tend to have more rapid muscular development and maturation compared to girls.