Week 8 Quiz: Ch 14 & 15

Van is a 15-year-old girl who is self-reliant and seems to have good self-control. She does well in school and often takes initiative. These characteristics are often associated with which of the following parenting styles?

authoritative

Mark frequently checks in with his teenage son about what he is doing after school and encourages appropriate activities This behavior suggests that Mark is high on

behavioral control

Jared bumps into Dan in the hallway. Rather than thinking this was accidental, Dan gets really mad and quickly assumes Jared did this on purpose. This illustrates

hostile attribution bias

All of the following statement about imaginary companions are true EXCEPT:

imaginary companions are seen in elementary school students but not in middle school students

Javier and Tomas are former friends who had a falling out. Both boys now immensely dislike one another. This pattern is described in the text as

mutual antipathies

All of the following statements are true EXCEPT:

peer influence is especially critical in early childhood as compared to other periods

Which parenting style is characterized by high warmth and low control

permissive

Maxwell believes that his mother always wants to change him. When his mother is disappointed in him, she refuses to look at him. Maxwell's mother is high on

psychological control

Dr. Holden believes that children learn to model their parents' behaviors. He thinks abused children go on to re-create in the own families the abuse they have observed and experienced. His beliefs are consistent with

social learning theory

All of the following statements are true about changes in the family EXCEPT:

teen pregnancy and birth rates have steadily increased for the last four decades in the US

Suniya is a young female who shows a preference for playing with gender-atypical toys. This pattern may be associated with exposure to higher levers of prenatal

testosterone

Matt is the youngest child in his family, Sam is the middle child, and David is the oldest child. Studies of birth order suggest

David will likely have the highest intelligence score

Francis is a mother in a family characterized as high socioeconomic status, and Jane is a mother in a working-cals family. What is the most likely outcome?

Francis will be more likely than Jane to use authoritative parenting

All of the following statements are true of Head Start EXCEPT:

Head Start seems to be more effective for European-American parents compared with African-American parents

Jason is an 8-year-old boy whose parents would be classified as authoritarian parents. What is the most likely outcome for Jason?

Jason will show more hostility than his peers

Huan is a 13-year-old girl growing up in China, and Madison is a 13-year-old girl growing up in the United States. Both girls have mothers who demonstrate what would be considered an authoritarian parenting style. What is the most likely outcome?

Madison is more likely than Juan to interpret this parenting style as overbearing and intrusive

Which of the following is NOT associated with delaying the childbearing years until the late 30s or 40s?

There is less psychological distance between parents and child

Tracy is the oldest child in her family. She has a younger brother and a younger sister. What is the most likely outcome?

Tracy will have more influence on bother of her younger siblings' gender role qualities than do her parents.

______ theory argues that as families get larger, their overall intellectual climate drops.

confluence

Peer-raised macaques show neurological differences from those macaques raised by adults; they have less developed neural networks using the neurotransmitter serotonin. This is an example of a/an

epigenetic effect