Reference no: EM133322622

Questions

1. The contributing role of hormones to gender differences and gender typing is shown by:

A) research showing that monkeys given hormones changed their social behavior patterns

B) research showing that children exposed prenatally to elevated levels of hormones behaved in ways consistent with their hormonal exposure

C) research showing that boys born without a penis behaved like boys even though their parents believed they were girls

D) all of the above

2. Abuse is most likely committed by parents

A) True

B) False

3. Social policy refers to:

A) set of planned actions to solve a social problem

B) a set of actions sponsored by the federal government to attain a social goal

C) a set of community based programs using volunteers to aid children

D) state and county government programs aimed at improving children's lives

4. Why should parents avoid using a family child care home as their choice of child care for their young children?

A) it will probably be too expensive

B)  it will probably be too structured and educationally oriented, which puts pressure on young children

C)  it will probably be subject to too many government regulations

D) caregivers will probably be poorly trained or untrained

5. Field experiments on the effects of televised violence suggest that a steady diet of violent television programming:

A) increases the aggressive inclinations of children and adolescents, especially those who are initially low in aggression

B) increases the aggressive inclinations of children and adolescents, especially those who are initially high in aggression

C) decreases the aggressive inclinations of children and adolescents

D) increases the aggressive inclinations of preschool and grade school children but has little if any effect on the behavior of adolescents

6. The rates of physical abuse is very similar across cultures

A) True

B) False

7. Two- and three-year-olds who experienced significant sibling rivalry had ______ when they were 5 or 6 years old than did children whose relationship with their sibling was warm and affectionate:

A) less knowledge of how to hurt other people

B) a more mature moral orientation

C) a less mature moral orientation

D) less capacity to react emotionally

8. Explaining social development requires that we recognize the following:

A) genetics is the primary explanation

B) Freud was right and mothers are the primary socializing agents

C) Watson was right and the environment rules

D) none of the above

9. In the middle of the 20th century the major policy concerns were:

A) teenage parenthood

B) health insurance

C) child abuse

D) preventing moral and sexual transgressions of children

10. Which of the following is true regarding the degree to which advertising influences children:

A) children's attention does not diminish when programming goes to commercial breaks

B) children are more likely to attend to commercials as they age

C) most kindergarteners understand that the role of commercials is to "try to make you buy things"

D) none of the above

11. A cross-generation cycle of abuse is less likely to occur when:

A) parents remain isolated from their relatives

B) grandparents receive therapy and set a better example for the next generation

C) parents have high expectations for their children's rate of development

D) previously abused mothers have a close and supportive marital relationship.