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TECA 1354
Test #3
1)During the middle childhood years, which gender has slightly more body fat than the other?
2)List factors which could explain differences in physical size of children.
3)Define the secular trend in growth.
4)What are some factors which plague children from low-SES families?
5)Define the most common vision problem in middle childhood.
6)What are some of the effects of malnutrition?
7)Over middle childhood, the frequency of injuries increases steadily. What types of accidents account for
most of the rise.
8)Describe Piaget’s concrete operational stage.
9)Give an example of conservation.
10)What is the most common treatment for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder?
11)What are children able to do once they begin to appreciate second-order false beliefs?
12)List some instructional approaches that would be successful with a kindergartener.
13)List some instructional approaches that would be beneficial for teaching mathematics.
14)List the mulitple intelligences proposed by Howard Gardner.
15)What is the benfit for the child from a Spanish speaking country when the school curriculum integrates
both Spanish and English?
16)List the outcomes of reduction in the classroom size.
17)Define peer tutoring.
18)Describe Erickson’s industry versus inferiority stage.
19)Describe what happens when children make social comparisons.
20)What are the four self-esteems that have typically developed by age 7 or 8 in Western cultures?
21)Define distributive justice.
22)A child viewed as “cool,” even though he frequently gets into fights can be classified as being
____________________.
23)What will a family likely experience in the initial period after a divorce?
24)What does research on child sexual abuse indicate about the victims?
25)What has been found about child sexual abusers?
26)Define adolescence.
27)List the phases of adolescence.
28)Describe the primary, secondary, and tertiary sexual characteristics.
29)In girls, what is associated with the onset of puberty?
30)What is the first sign of puberty in boys?
31)Differentiate between anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
32)From whom do the majority of American teens learn about sex?
33)How do formal operational adolescents usually solve the pendulum problem?
34)An experimenter hides a poker chip in her hand and asks children to indicate whether the following
statement is true, false, or uncertain: “Either the chip in my hand is green or it is not green.”
What is the differnce between what a concrete operational child will say and what a formal operational
adolescent will say?
35)Define cognitive self-regulation.
36)What is one effect noted by research on school transitions after each school change? shows that
________ declines for both genders after each school change.
37)What is the child-rearing styles associated with superior school performance in adolescence?
38)How does ethnicity relate to the American high school dropout rate among teenagers?
39)What is the correlation between parental involvement and school drop out rate?
40)According toErikson’s theory, what is recognized as the major personality achievement of adolescence?
41)According to Erikson, how is an “identity crisis” defined?
42)Define the following:
A) identity achievement
B) identity moratorium
C) identity foreclosure
D) identity diffusion
43)For teenagers who are members of minority groups, what is central to the quest for identity?
44)Describe the following parenting styles:
A) authoritarian
B) permissive
C) authoritative
45)Throughout adolescence, what is the single most consistent predictor of a teenager’s mental health?