Deck 12: Middle Childhood: Social, Emotional Development, and Cognitive Development

Question 1

Acceptance or rejection by peers has little influence on children's adjustment later in life.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Depressed children tend to explain negative events in terms of internal, stable, and global causes.In doing so, they exhibit an external attributional style.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Research has shown that which group is slightly more likely to define themselves in terms of the groups to which they belong?

A) Females
B) Males
C) Only children
D) Children with siblings

Answer 3

Females

Question 4

Cross-cultural studies have found that girls tend to have higher self-esteem than boys in what area?

A) Public speaking
B) Writing
C) Math
D) Science

Question 5

When are divorced fathers likely to spend less and less time with their children as time goes on?

A) When they are employed full-time
B) When they are hostile to the mother
C) When they start new families
D) When their children start school

Question 6

Should parents remain married for the sake of the children?

A) It depends on whether they still love each other.
B) It depends on the age of the children.
C) It depends on how they behave in front of the children.
D) It depends on their financial status.

Question 7

Why are peers important in middle childhood?

A) They exert powerful socialization influences.
B) They have interests and skills of different generations.
C) They are a good replacement for parents.
D) They encourage each other to resist parental restrictions as much as possible.

Question 8

Children rejected by their peers

A) are likely to have failed to conform to group norms and standards.
B) usually show little or no change in order to become accepted.
C) are usually of lower socioeconomic status.
D) are more often than not of a different racial or ethnic group.

Question 9

Up through age 7, a child feels a friend is primarily someone

A) the child can share thoughts and feelings with.
B) who is loyal.
C) the child shares activities with.
D) the child trusts.

Question 10

Psychotherapy for depression

A) relies predominantly on the use of medication.
B) is mainly cognitive-behavioral in nature.
C) works well for girls but not for boys.
D) is the most successful method available for treating children.

Question 11

The prevalence of sexual abuse among children is about 2% each year, but the rate for girls at ages 14-17 is above what percent?

A) 25%
B) 20%
C) 15%
D) 10%

Question 12

What is a child who has been trained to avoid molesters most likely to do if asked to get into a stranger's car?

A) Stop and talk to the driver to figure out who that person is.
B) Ignore the person and just keep walking.
C) Shout "No!" and run away.
D) Get into the car because children must obey adults.

Question 13

As a teenager, 25-year-old Karine suffered from depression, had a police record, abused alcohol and drugs, and engaged in risky sexual behaviors. As an adult, she suffers from sexual dysfunction. Karine likely

A) grew up in poverty.
B) was a victim of child sexual abuse.
C) is of below-normal intelligence.
D) is angry about her parents' divorce.

Question 14

As children's knowledge of concepts increases, their long-term memory gradually becomes

A) more centralized.
B) less reliable.
C) organized into categories.
D) less organized in every way.

Question 15

For both boys and girls, higher levels of emotional intelligence are correlated with which of the following problems at school?

A) Social isolation
B) Lower academic performance
C) Indirect aggression
D) Direct aggression

Question 16

The older twins and siblings become, the more they differ on measures of intelligence and personality. This fact supports the role of which of the following in intelligence?

A) school
B) Age
C) Heredity
D) Environment