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As toddlers, girls tend to have smaller vocabularies than boys

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False

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all acts of altruistic behavior are also

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prosocial behaviors

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babies who exhibit avoidant attachment are not upset when their mothers leave the room

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True

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one-year-old chad is not upset when her mother leaves the room, and when her mother returns chad turns away from her. she is exhibiting _____ attachment

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Avoidant

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who is most likely engaging in cooperative play for the first time?

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Phil, who is two years old

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mary sends her 12 month old son to day care. according to recent research, it is most likely that davis exhibits an ____ attachment to mary.

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Secure

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quality of peer relationships is related to an individual's ability to regulate their emotions.

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true

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pain is considered one of the basic emotions

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False

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Children do not experience complex emotions until they are about 18 months old

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True

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some aspects of gender roles and identities are not much affected by experience

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False

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according to erikson's theory, purpose is usually achieved before will.

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False

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Hamid believes that because his brother Yusef is playing with girl toys that Yusef is now a girl. this would indicate that hamid apparently does not yet understand:

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Gender constancy

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IN which country are you most likely to find the most cooperative children?

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Canada, china, and united states

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in gerneral older childeren are more cooperative than younger children

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True

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Which statement is true regarding basic emotions?

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They are experienced by people in all cultures

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which aspect of understanding gender do children develop first?

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Gender labeling

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Pride, embarrassment, and guilt are all examples of:

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Complex emotions

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children raised in day-care center are less likely to be securely attached to their mother than children raised in their own homes

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False

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in general, boys are ___ than girls

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Better at spatial tasks

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Dylan is a preschooler who has an imaginary friend mouse named niko. according to recent research, it is most likely that dylan

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is a typical preschooler

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an example of ____ is when a child interprets her parent's facial expression as a cue to determine whether or not to pick up a strange object

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Social referencing

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Dr. McAlister studies how children form lasting social-emotional relationships with adults. Dr. McAlister is most likely studying

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Attachment

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Infants rarely become attached to their fathers

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false

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which example of gender stereotyping seems most resistant to changes in gender roles?

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Boys prefer physical play

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on standarized tests of math and science the very best american students tend to score at the level of an average student from asian countries

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True

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psyshometricians are psychologists who specialize in measuring psychological characteristics such as intelligence and personality.

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True

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which task would an average elementary age school girl perform better than an average boy?

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Writing their name in cursive

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Metamemory is also known as photographic memory

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False

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Formal operational thinkers often utilize combinatorial reasoning

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True

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____ is defined as the ability to hear the distinctive sounds of letters

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Phonological awareness

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Convergent thinking focuses on generating the most ____ answer

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Correct

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Piaget saw concrete operational thinking as the end point of cognitive development

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Flase

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concerning reading, comprehension involves the ability to hear the distinct sounds of a particular letter

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Flase

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which behavior indicates that mandy is using a knowledge-transforming strategy when writing her term paper

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When before writing anything she decides that the point of the paper would be to make her teacher mad

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Ginny is an architect who is excellent at picturing what an existing building would look like with certain modifications. this ability is probably most reflective of a high level of ___ intelligence

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Spatial

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Angelica and her younger brother houston are both given 3 fountain pens, each containing clear ink and informed that some combination of ink will yield a color. because angelica is a formal operational thinker and houston is a concrete operational thinker how will their behaviors likely differ?

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Angelica will spend more time thinking about the task and be more systematic when attempting to solve it.

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Familial retardation is always characterized by

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mild level of retardation

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who is earliest in the studying process?

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Bruce, who is determining his goal for studying

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most mentally retarded individuals fall in the "profound" category

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False

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Long term memory is to working memory as

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Permanent is to temporary

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Albert just thought of a novel way to consider the relationship between matter and the speed of light,. according to sternberg this action best exemplifies ____ ability

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Creative

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an intelligence test that emphasizes the inclusion of items that are based on experiences common to many cultures is referred to as

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Culture-fair

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Culture fair tests contain no items that refer to cultural concepts

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False

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During their elementary school years, the average child gains about 8 pounds a year.

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True

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The correlation between a child's IQ and their biological parents' IQ gets stronger as children get older

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True

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Eight year old Harvey has a mental age of 4 what is his intelligence quotient

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50

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During accommodation a new experience is incorporated into an existing scheme without modification

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Flase

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Phonological memory is defined as the ability to recall a visual image after the passage of time

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False

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Which is the typical pattern of infant speech?

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Coo to Babble to INtonation

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who would be the most likely to use terms such like "mental Hardware" and "mental software" when describing children's thinking?

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Monica who is and information processing theorist

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a good way to improve the eyewitness testimony of children is to warn them that an interviewer may sometimes try to trick them

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True

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Telegraphic speech involves using

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Only words directly relevant to the meaning

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in english "ing" and "ed" represent grammatical morphemes

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True

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Coo sounds are composed of a single consonant sound

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False

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research by rovve-collier showed that, by two months of age infants can recall past events

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True

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a basic principle of understanding number involves ordinality, which refers to the fact that numbers differ in magnitude, with some being of greater value

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True

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which is the best example of a question designed to assess autobiographical memory?

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who taught you how to ride a bike

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if you believed in the concept of the zone of proximal development, what advice should you give to a child who is attempting to learn how to throw a ball?

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Tell the child to ask a friend who knows how to throw to help him out

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Jesse is trying to teach his younger brother how to be a "fast gun". Before they start jesse reminds himself that james will need a lot of direction at first but will require much less direction. jesse's actions provide an excellent example of the strategy of:

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Scaffolding

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According to Vygotsky, private speech is aimed at:

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Self-regulation

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using a study involving a "shrinking machine" and "terry the troll" deloache and associates demonstrated that 2 and half year olds cannot understand that a model can be a symbol of something else

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Fasle

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salvador has a scheme for drawing with a crayon that had to be changed in horder to learn how to paint a picture with a brush. this adaptation is an example of

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accommodation

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Tonka is actively playing with his toy trunk, when his mom accidentally drops a towel she is carrying directly on top of the vehicle. as soon as the vehicle is covered, tonka turns his head away and calmly begins to play with another toy. his reaction best illustrates the concept of:

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lack of object permanence

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which linguistic approach to grammar acquisition exclusively focuses on a child's ability to mentally detect regular patterns in the sentences that they hear?

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cognitive

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in children's television show Pee Wee's playhouse the floor globe and chair could talk and move the face that many young children view such objects as being "alive" is consistent with the piagetian concept of:

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Animism

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Private speech is a form of verbal communication a child uses when talking to their best friend

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False

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three year old brian knows what the words "caT" and "dog" mean. one day his babysitter comes in with a box of kittens and a hamster and says "isnt he furry?" since brian does not know the word Hamster or furry he will most likely:

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Classify the hamster as furry

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when assed to count the 4 beer bottles placed in front of him, three year old bud says "1, 2, 3, 4 there are four" when asked to count the bottles a second time he says "2, 5, 7, 4" buds counting skills demonstrate that he has mastered the ___ Principle of counting

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Cardinality

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Seven month old shaq appers to possess a sense of "naive physics" which of his actions would indicate that?

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his suprise when a basketball appears to be hanging in mid-air when it is not attached to a string or other supporting device.

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what can be done to improve the credibility of the testimony of a child?

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use questions that test a number of different hypotheses concerning the event

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