Learning Curve 6b

_____ is typical of children who have externalizing problems.

Denying reality and having unrealistically high self-esteem

Which girl is the MOST likely to frequently engage in physically aggressive behavior?

Ming, who is 2½ years old

Which child is the MOST likely to be rejected in elementary school?

Rafael, who acts much more feminine than his male peers

Which statement is TRUE about relational aggression?

Relational aggression increases in middle childhood and early adolescence.

Lance is a 21-month-old toddler who is exuberant and fearless, and he has problems regulating his emotions. Which parent would be the MOST apt to decrease the likelihood of Lance becoming a highly aggressive child as he gets older?

a parent who offers lots of love and teaches Lance about the moral consequences of his behavior

Personality theorist Harry Stack Sullivan believed that he felt that best friends serve as a vital training ground for:

adult romantic relationships.

Pablo gets teased for looking different and is pushed around by some classmates almost every day at school. Pablo is the victim of _____.

bullying

Popularity becomes a prominent concern of children during Piaget's _____ stage.

concrete operational

Cindy is in fourth grade. Being ______ is probably NOT a key element of her self-esteem.

creative

Yolanda's boss scolds her for being one minute late to work. Yolanda is very angry, but she needs the job and controls her anger and tells her boss she will do better. Yolanda is demonstrating:

emotion regulation.

The _____ states that humans may be biologically programmed to retaliate or strike back when thwarted.

frustration-aggression hypothesis

Six-year-old Juan takes his little brother's favorite toy and hides it which makes him cry. Juan's mother says, "Think how you would feel if your older brother did that to you." Juan's mother is using a type of intervention called:

induction

Carlita rarely talks or plays with other children on the playground. When her teacher asks her a question, she typically hangs her head and says "I don't know." This behavior may indicate that Carlita has:

internalizing tendencies.

Being a bully-victim is _____ being a classic victim.

less common than

In elementary school classes, children who get many "most liked" rankings and no "most disliked" rankings by their classmates are defined as _____ children.

popular

Four-year-old Mara hit Elise because she wants to take her toy car. Mara is demonstrating _____ aggression.

proactive

Aamna is jealous that her friend Beth is getting to know a new girl at school. Aamna doesn't want Beth to like the new girl better than her, so in the hopes that this will end the relationship, she starts a rumor that the new girl has been talking badly about Beth behind her back. This type of behavior is called _____ aggression.

relational

Beverly is a school psychologist studying social interactions in the later elementary school years in the United States. In her field work, she notices that some types of children seem to be unpopular and rejected more often. Which group is apt to be rarely rejected?

relationally aggressive children who vigorously compete for status and then reach out to enlist the group in a caring way

When Lanelle scores the highest in the class on the latest math test her teacher tells her "You are such a hard worker, keep up the good work." Lanelle's teacher's comment will help facilitate _____ in Lanelle.

self-efficacy

The tendency to feel good or bad about ourselves is called _____.

self-esteem