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Front 1

In the early 1970's, less than 15 % of all households were single parent families. In 1990, however, single parent families made up about what percentage of all families?

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25%

Front 2

A woman carries the genetic trait for an X-linked disorder. When she conceives, her child has what possibility of inheriting the trait for what disorder?

Back 2

50% chance

Front 3

Which statement best defines the Electra Complex?

Back 3

Girls in the phallic stage of psychosexual development have sexual feelings for their father and hostility toward their mother.

Front 4

As 17 year old Buffy Cantrell entered the room where her senior prom was being held, she thought of herself as being the most beautiful girl in the room . This type of thinking is termed...

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adolescent egocentrism

Front 5

All of the following are biological factors that lead to hearing loss associated with aging except:
1. prolonged exposure to noise
2. advancing aage
3. gender
4. genetic inheritance

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Prolonged exposure to noise

Front 6

Which theorist of the 17th century supported the idea that children are not inheritantly evil, but simply a blank slate that is filled by life experiences?
1. Rousseau
2. Locke
3. Hall
4. Darwin

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2. Locke

Front 7

The risk for glaucoma is especially increased in which age group?

Back 7

African Americans

Front 8

Jefferey Holt takes a great deal of pleasure in knowing that he is a good boy. He has never given his parents any reason for concern or reason to doubt his honesty. He obeys all the rules without fail. he is operating at what stage of moral thinking?
1. preconventional moral reasoning
2. midconventional moral reasoning
3. conventional moral reasoning
4. postconventional reasoning

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Conventional Moral Reasoning

Front 9

Hermano Rodriguez has been transferred to a magnet school to help him develope his special abilities in science. What type of test would be most appropriate for measuring his potential for accomplishments?
1. achievement test
2. aptitude test
3. IQ test
4. psychological test

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2. aptitude test

Front 10

Jessie Roberts has been given the news that she is dying from inoperable cancer. After her initial response of denial, she is most likely to move into which stage, according to Elizabeth Kubler-Ross?
1. anger
2. depression
3. bargaining
4. acceptance

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1. anger

Front 11

The philosophy which holds that children are basically evil and only become mature through proper upbringing and salvation is called the concept of:
1. sinful nature
2. innate sin
3. original sin
4. tabula rasa

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3. original sin

Front 12

Marge and Kevin both have brown eyes and carry the trait for blue eyes. They are expecting their first child in May. What are the chances that their first child will have blue eyes?
1. 1:4
2. 3:4
3. 2:4
4. 4:4

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1:4

Front 13

Which of the following infants would be least likely to die of SIDS?
1. 3 month old African American female who sleeps on her back: born to a college educated mother with 'O' blood type.
2. 4 month old Asian, bottle fed male who sleeps in his own warm room born to an 18 y/o middle class Asian woman.
3. 3 week old, firstborn female, born in July to a non-smoking, middle class mother.
4. two month old bottle-fed male born in January, who has a stuffy nose and sleeps on his back.

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3. 3 week old, firstborn female, born in July to a non-smoking, middle class mother.

Front 14

Which theorist proposed early childhood stages most closely resemble those of Freud's theories?
1. Skinner
2. Watson
3. Piaget
4. Erikson

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4. Erikson

Front 15

The rate of diseases of all kinds in a given population is termed:
1. morbidity
2. mortality
3. vitality
4. disability

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1. morbidity

Front 16

As compared with Elementary schools, secondary schools have

Back 16

More individualized attention

Front 17

If there are 1000 teenage girls in your local high school, how many would you expect to become teenage mothers if based on the 1990 cojncensus?

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60

Front 18

Betsy, an 11 year old, understands fully, that her teacher is not only a teacher, but a mother, sister and aunt as well. This knowledge concept is termed:
1. class inclusion
2. classification
3. reversibility
4. reciprocacy

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class inclusion

Front 19

Humans have approximately how many different genes?

Back 19

100,000

Front 20

Information that is directly gathered and verifiable through the senses, such as measurements and research findings is called __________ information.

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Empirical

Front 21

What is a potential problem that is most clearly associated with longitudinal studies?

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Selective dropout rates may bias the sample over time

Front 22

Which of these is a basic assumption of the life-span perspective on human developement?
1. development is primarily confined to childhood- adulthood is a time of stability
2. Developement takes a single directional path - one of growth and decline.
3. Development must be viewed in it's cultural and historical context
4. Development at one period of life has little bearing on development at another period.

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3. Development must be viewed in it's cultural and historical context.

Front 23

In developmental research, the term cohort refers to a group of people who...

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Were born at some point in time and thus live through similar social and historical experiences.

Front 24

Suppose a psychologist did an experiment to see if different teaching methods affected people's scores on a math test. In this example, the teaching method would be the _______ variable.
1. independent
2. dependent
3. extraneous
4. random

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1. independent

Front 25

A set of concepts used to organize, explain, and predict factual observations, best defines which level of science?
1. Empirical
2. Applied
3. Basic
4. Theory

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4. Theory

Front 26

measuring different age groups at the same point in time best describes ________ research designs.
1. Longitudinal
2. cross-sectional
3. Time lag
4. cross-cultural

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Cross-sectional

Front 27

Year to year comparisons of SAT scores of high school seniors is an example of which research design?
1. Time lag
2. Within subjects
3. Cross-sectional
4. Longitudinal

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1. Time Lag

Front 28

What is the clearest advantage of the correlational method of research?

Back 28

Provides an empirical basis for the prediction of future observations

Front 29

Social scientists most commonly use the term 'sex' to refer to ____ and the term 'gender' to refer to ______ that distinguish male from female.

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Biological characteristics; psychological and social characteristics

Front 30

Which of these characterizes only males and not females?
1. The presence of gonads
2. Hormones and primary estrogens
3. The XY chromosome pattern
4. All of these

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3. The XY chromosome pattern

Front 31

In their review of research literature, Maccoby and Jacklin found that as a group, girls tend to score higher on tests of ___ than boys do.
1. mathematics
2. visual-spatial abilities
3. verbal abilities
4. aggressive behavior

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3. verbal abilities

Front 32

The textbook and lecture reported a study of genetic disorder in the Dominican Republic which involves genetic males who appear female at birth and are raised as females. At puberty, these people then develop male genetalia. The most common reaction among the 18 cases in this study is that most of these people...

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changed their gender identity and assumed the male role in their society.