Deck 14: A: Social Influences

Question 1

Throughout the preschool years, parallel play becomes less common.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Imaginary playmates are a sign of possible developmental problems.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

During parallel play children engage in similar activities, talk or smile at one another, and offer each other toys.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Biology probably plays an important role in the development of one's sexual orientation.

Question 5

Teens who participate in programs that involve role-playing about sexual situations are more likely to abstain from intercourse or use contraceptives when they do have intercourse.

Question 6

Over time, friends become more similar in their attitudes and values.

Question 7

Children play less cooperatively when parents mediate play.

Question 8

Korean American children are more polite and are more likely to strive for harmony during make-believe play than are European American children.

Question 9

Most adolescents know the facts of conception.

Question 10

The first signs of peer interaction include pointing to or smiling at another infant.

Question 11

By age 15, the majority of adolescent boys and girls in Canada will have had sexual intercourse at least once.

Question 12

The first signs of peer interaction appear around six months of age.

Question 13

Children raised by homosexual parents become homosexual themselves.

Question 14

Adolescents are more likely to turn to friends than family members for support.

Question 15

A child's relationship with his/her parents may provide an internal working model for all future social relationships.

Question 16

Many adolescent girls do not believe that pregnancy could happen to them.

Question 17

Children with both same- and opposite-sex friendships do not differ from those who have only opposite-sex friendships.

Question 18

Wandering aimlessly is one type of unhealthy solitary play.

Question 19

Interethnic friendships are more likely to form in large classes.

Question 20

Intimacy is more common in boys' friendships than in girls' friendships.

Question 21

Most adolescents give in to peer pressure to behave in ways that are clearly antisocial.

Question 22

In the Family Economic Stress Model (FESM), poverty harms children's development because parents struggling to make ends meet become depressed and parent less effectively.

Question 23

Students are more likely to succeed in school where the progress of students, teachers, and programs is monitored.

Question 24

Students learn the most when teachers assume that students are responsible for their own learning.

Question 25

Occasionally, popular groups of children include physically aggressive boys who pick fights and relationally aggressive girls who manipulate social relationships.

Question 26

The characteristics that are associated with popularity are the same across all cultures.

Question 27

Students are more likely to succeed in schools where the climate is safe and nurturing.

Question 28

Latchkey children are more anxious and dependent than children who are cared for by a parent.

Question 29

Controversial children are both liked and disliked by classmates.

Question 30

Many of the harmful effects associated with part-time employment during the school year also exist for summer employment.

Question 31

Only the students being tutored learn something when peer tutoring is used.

Question 32

Peer pressure is most powerful when the standards for appropriate behaviours are not clear-cut.

Question 33

Adolescents who work over 15-20 hours per week during the school year do not differ from their unemployed peers with regards to mental health and behavioural problems.

Question 34

Cliques are often part of a larger group that is called a crowd.

Question 35

Good teachers use passive, rather than active, teaching methods.

Question 36

Adolescents who spend their after-school time away from home, unsupervised, are more likely to get into trouble.

Question 37

Student success in school is not related to parental involvement in the school.

Question 38

The most important factor in understanding the impact of child care is the quality of the care that children receive: better care is linked to better outcomes.

Question 39

Dominance hierarchies are uncommon in children's groups.

Question 40

Smarter and more socially skilled children are more likely to be popular.