Question: What is the purpose of this graph? [Solar Cost Graph]

Answer Choices:
To identify patterns and trends over time
\nTo highlight the increased use of solar modules
\nTo advocate the use of solar power over coal or natural gas
\nTo justify costs to inflation

Answer: To identify patterns and trends over time

 

Question: One of the explanations for the gender difference in the identification of learning disabilities is that:

Answer Choices:
Girls are more likely to be referred by teachers for treatment
\nLearning disability is more difficult to detect in boys
\nGirls’ education is given priority in schools and homes
\nBoys have a greater biological vulnerability for learning disabilities

Answer: Boys have a greater biological vulnerability for learning disabilities

 

Question: Piaget stressed that young adults are more quantitatively advanced in their thinking than adolescents because:

Answer Choices:
They enter the concrete operational stage at about 18 years of age
\nThey engage in more idealistic thinking
\nThey have more knowledge
\nThey engage in less abstract and logical thinking

Answer: They have more knowledge

 

Question: Which of the following statements does the new model of parent-adolescent relationships emphasize?

Answer Choices:
Everyday parent-adolescent conflict has a detrimental effect on adolescent development
\nAs adolescents mature, they move into a world of autonomy apart from parents
\nParent-Adolescent conflict is intense and stressful throughout adolescence
\nParents serve as important attachment figures and support systems during adolescence

Answer: Parents serve as important attachment figures and support systems during adolescence

 

Question: In terms of self-understanding, children in late childhood are more likely than children in early childhood to:

Answer Choices:
Compare themselves with their peers
\nUse outer states to describe themselves
\nUse physical characteristics to describe themselves
\nCompare themselves with role models

Answer: Compare themselves with their peers

 

Question: Which of the following is the biggest health risk that most young adults face?

Answer Choices:
Establishing poor health habits
\nUse of cocaine
\nCardiovascular disease
\nHigh levels of cholesterol

Answer: Establishing poor health habits

 

Question: What is the purpose of this graph? [Quality-Quantity Graph]

Answer Choices:
To compare quality and quantity over time
\nTo document inferior production
\nTo illustrate an organizational goal
\nTo reveal the intrinsic cost of inferior quality

Answer: To illustrate an organizational goal

 

Question: Tammy’s behavior is controlled by external rewards and punishments reflecting which level of Kohlberg’s theory of moral reasoning?

Answer Choices:
Conventional reasoning
\nPreconventional reasoning
\nInterconventional reasoning
\nPostconventional reasoning

Answer: Preconventional reasoning

 

Question: Which variable is on the y-axis? [Quality-Quantity Graph]

Answer Choices:
Target
\nCurrent
\nQuantity
\nQuality

Answer: Quantity

 

Question: What type of graph is this? [Quality-Quantity Graph]

Answer Choices:
Histogram
\nScatter diagram
\nFrequency curve
\nTime-series

Answer: Scatter diagram

 

Question: Secure attachment to parents during childhood correlates with:

Answer Choices:
Higher academic achievement in college
\nBeing less supportive in distress as adults
\nMore satisfaction with adult relationships
\nStronger sibling relationships in adulthood

Answer: More satisfaction with adult relationships

 

Question: Conflict between parents and their adolescent children most often occurs:

Answer Choices:
Between a father and daughter or between a mother and son
\nOver minor, day-to-day issues
\nIn ethnic minority families
\nOver major issues, like drugs, sex, and delinquent behaviors

Answer: Over minor, day-to-day issues

 

Question: In the United States, the most widely recognized marker of entry into adulthood is:

Answer Choices:
Holding a permanent, full-time job
\nMoving into one’s own home
\nHaving a child
\nGetting married

Answer: Holding a permanent, full-time job

 

Question: Conflicts arise between parents and adolescents because:

Answer Choices:
Adolescents want autonomy, whereas parents want control
\nAdolescents and parents have different value systems that are in conflict
\nAdolescents want help from parents, but parents want adolescents to work things out themselves
\nAdolescents want control, whereas parents want autonomy

Answer: Adolescents want autonomy, whereas parents want control

 

Question: Children who are diagnosed with ___ have deficits in social relationships; abnormalities in communication; and restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behavior.

Answer Choices:
Childhood disintegrative disorder
\nAutistic disorder
\nADHD
\nPica

Answer: Autistic disorder