Exam 8: Early Childhood: Emotional and Social Development

____________ is a particular type of motivation and inner strength that directs life and growth in such a way as to become all one is capable of being.

According to your textbook, in the first year after divorced parents tend to:

Zajonc and colleagues devised a theory to explain the differences between first- and later-born children called the confluence theory. This theory suggests that:

Researchers have found that therapeutic play:

The process of transmitting culture, knowledge, skills, and dispositions that enable children to participate effectively in group life is called:

Discuss the following parenting approaches: warm but restrictive, warm with democratic procedures, hostile and restrictive, and hostile and permissive.

The Smith family is made up of three children: Doreen is usually described as ambitious, caring, friendly, and thoughtful. Michael is usually described as intelligent, obedient, secure, and responsible. Sabrina is usually described as creative, emotional, friendly, disobedient, least responsible, and talkative. Based on the research findings cited in your textbook, how would you order the three children in terms of birth order (oldest to youngest)?

In a follow-up to the Harvard Child-Rearing Study, David McClelland and associates found that the parenting techniques that made a difference in personality development were:

A person's sense of self-worth or self-image is part of the overall dimension called:

As children get older they tend to spend more time with peers than with adults. Which of the following is(are) factors contributing to this?

Simon's parents are considered to have a hostile and permissive parenting style. Based on the research cited in your textbook, what characteristics would you expect Simon to display?

Research has indicated that children aged 5 and aged 7 who employed ____________ solutions were judged to be more socially competent, displaying fewer attention problems and disruptive behaviors.

Children living in poverty can do better in school with a preschool program:

Studies of the effects of depressed mothers on their children have found:

Which statement is true regarding Asians?

Tami is a preschooler. How might her understanding of self best be characterized?

Malika provides her children with firm direction for their activities. She allows a certain amount of freedom provided that the activities are safe and educational. Punishment is reserved for major transgressions and is preceded by explanations of what the child has done wrong and how the behavior can be corrected. What type of parent is Malika?

The cognitive structure that we employ for selecting and processing information about ourselves is the ___________.

Which of the following have researchers found to be determinants of parental functioning?

A study that examined the relationship between parental emotional expressivity and children's adjustment and social competence found that children who display social competence, emotional understanding, prosocial behaviors, higher self-esteem, and security of attachment have parents who are: