2. Cultural expectations defining appropriate behaviors
for each sex are called
A) gender role
B) gender identity
C) egocentrism
D) metacognition
3. Wesley C. Becker reviewed research on parenting and
found that love-oriented techniques.
A) promote children's acceptance of
self-responsibility
B) foster self-control mechanisms
C) create self-indulgent children
D) both a and b
4. According to Diana Baumrind's analysis of parental
authority, an authoritative parent is best described as one who
A) stresses obedience and conformity
to rules in a disciplined environment
B) allows the child to regulate his
or her behavior
C) prefers forced discipline but allows
children to make the rules
D) provides firm direction but allows
the child freedom within limits
5. In a study involving white, middle-class nursery-school
children, Diana Baumrind found that the least self-reliant, explorative,
and self- controlled children were those whose parents were
A) authoritarian
B) permissive
C) harmonious
D) authoritative
6. Stephen claims that his mother gave his brother a bigger
piece of cake than he got. However, Stephen is pacified when his mother
cuts his piece in two. He defiantly says to his brother, "Now, I 've got
more." Stephen's statement shows:
A) good perspective-taking ability
B) lack of conservation
C) associative learning but no concept
learning
D) sociocentric behavior
7. DEFINE and give an example of operations
as used in Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
8. Explain the model of memory below so that even my dumbest friend could understand it (and I must admit that I have a couple of really dumb friends.)
sensory register ---> short- term memory ---> long-term memory