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