Exam 4: How Important Are Parents

Ruth was careful to leave signs that Santa Claus had visited for her 8-year-old daughter to find on Christmas morning. By promoting this fantasy belief, Ruth is ______ her daughter's development.

It is possible to draw useful scientific conclusions from experiments of nature, despite the fact that there is no information about the state of the children prior to their discovery.

Tia and her wife registered their unborn child for a prestigious day care center. This is an example of ______.

Since monitoring is dependent upon the child's openness, it is increasingly being recognized as a ______ variable.

Siobhann carefully monitors her young daughter's whereabouts, actions, and friends. If she continues this throughout her daughter's adolescence, Siobhann will reduce the likelihood or delay the onset for her daughter's drug use during ______.

Which of the following parental actions mediated a trajectory for a child's development?

As a way of guiding a child's development, parents can engage in promotive strategies, which might include the decision to school a child at home to steer them away from external, negative influences.

In a cross-cultural study conducted in North America and Egypt, maternal vocal stimulation was found to be negatively related to toddler behavioral competence.

Sarai is developing in a positive manner. She draws on her own strengths and also makes use of the environmental resources available to her with positive outcomes. A developmental psychologist would likely describe Sarai as a ______ child.

Which of the following is an example of academic redshirting?

Which of the following parental actions established a trajectory for a child's development?

Which of the following would NOT qualify as an example of accelerating a child's development?

One problem with parental monitoring is that parents ______.

Genie was raised in a closet and isolated from social interaction. Her sad case provided scientists with an opportunity to study the effects of severe isolation on child development. This is an example of a(n) ______.

For obvious ethical reasons, the study of children who develop without the benefit of parents is limited. A better source of data concerning the effects on children of not having parents comes from ______.

Describe the three types of roles parents can have with their children's developmental trajectories. Give an example of each.

Animal studies highlighted the importance of early parent-child relationships but were limited by ______.

A sensitive period in child development may not be irreversible.

Which of the following theorists claimed that peers were a more important environmental influence on child development than parents?

Reviews of research on correlates of parenting behaviors and children's outcomes indicate that ______ is NOT related to child competence.