November 2023 1 Which student is most likely to express interest in computers and rate his or her

1. Which student is most likely to express interest in computers and rate his or her computer skills as “excellent”?
A. A high-SES girl
B. A low-SES girl
C. A high-SES boy
D. A low-SES boy

2. The most common form of the blended family is a _______ arrangement.
A. mother-stepfather
B. grandparent-grandchild
C. father-stepmother
D. mother–foster mother

3. Parents start to socialize their children in earnest during
A. the first year, when babies can interact socially.
B. the second year, when toddlers are first able to comply with parental directions.
C. the preschool years, when children start formal schooling.
D. early adolescence, when per pressure is strongest.

4. Friendships start to become more complex and psychologically based during the stage of Friendship as
A. Mutual Trust and Assistance.
B. Commitment.
C. Intimacy, Mutual Understanding, and Loyalty.
D. a Handy Playmate.

1. Which form of child maltreatment is most commonly reported?
A. Physical abuse
B. Sexual abuse
C. Neglect
D. Emotional abuse

2. Mr. and Mrs. Lopez are highly accepting and involved with their children. They’re warm, attentive, and sensitive to their needs. The Lopez’s are using a/an _______ childrearing style.
A. authoritarian
B. permissive
C. uninvolved
D. authoritative

3. A decrease in competition and increased harmony are two positive outcomes of A. traditional classrooms.
B. homogeneous grouping arrangements.
C. multi grade classrooms.
D. mainstreaming.

4. _______ are especially likely to profit from extracurricular pursuits that require them to take on meaningful roles and responsibilities.
A. Overweight adolescents
B. Adolescents with physical limitations
C. Adolescents with academic, emotional, and social problems
D. Popular-prosocial adolescents

1. Research indicates that the link between family size and children’s IQ can be explained by the
A. Flynn effect.
B. strong trend for mothers lower in intelligence to give birth to more children.
C. strong trend for mothers higher in intelligence to give birth to more children.
D. growing use of birth-control techniques.

2. Compared with popular-aggressive children, rejected-aggressive children are
A. more socially skilled.
B. less antagonistic and more prosocial.
C. more often extremely antagonistic.
D. popular with younger peers.

3. Most of the 1,500 children who die from maltreatment each year
A. are under age five.
B. are adolescents.
C. leave siblings behind who remain with the abusive parents.
D. had been referred to the social-services system, but their case hadn’t yet been investigated.

4. Anxious, withdrawn children who _______ seem better equipped to withstand peer attacks.
A. take self-defense classes
B. learn to project a sense of false bravado
C. learn meditation techniques
D. who have a prosocial best friend

1. What is behavioral therapy?
a. uses family therapy principles to improve a person’s health-risk behaviors
b. offers strategies to help patients better understand the factors and 
situations that precede alcohol and other drug use a well as the consequences of that use
c. designed to enhance a person’s motivation to make changes regarding alcohol and other drug use and to recognize and cope with those life situations that may
trigger or sustain alcohol and other drug use
d. attempts to identify the behaviors and situations in which alcohol and other  drug use occurs and then to disrupt those behaviors by equipping patients with skill resist alcohol and other drug use

2. Alcohol abuse_________ the immune system, which helps protect the body from infections.
a. moderately suppresses
b. severely suppresses
c. lightly suppresses
d, boosts

3. Drinking too much increase a person’s chance of being_______
a. injured or killed
b. incarcerated
c. fired at work
d. divorced

4. Women are at risk of developing alcohol dependence if they consume more than ________ drinks per week and ______ drinks on any single day.
a. 7;3
b. 5;2
c. 10;3
d. 4;2

1. Eva plays near other children with similar materials but doesn’t try to influence their behavior. She’s involved in
A. nonsocial activity.
B. parallel play.
C. associative play.
D. cooperative play.

2. Professor Kinship views the family as a complex of interacting relationships influenced by the larger social context. Professor Kinship endorses the _______ perspective of family.
A. social systems
B. ethological
C. dynamic systems
D. behaviorist

3. Children first acquire skills for interacting with peers
A. from cartoon characters.
B. from child-care workers.
C. when they begin formal schooling.
D. within the family.

4. _______ has the highest divorce rate in the world.
A. Canada
C. Italy
B. New Zealand
D. The United States