Compared to the past, girls in the United States experience ___________ at the significantly younger age of 11 or 12, most likely because of better nutrition and overall health
a. adolescence c. growth spurts
b. puberty d. menarche
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How does the current edition of Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing conceptualize validity?
a. Validity is a non-statistical measure for non-quantitative tests. b. Validity should only be assessed when reliability is low. c. Validity is a unitary concept that represents all evidence. d. Only one type of validity must be high and the others can be low.
A major criticism of the use of medication for treating a child's ADHD is that
A) parents and teachers are often allowed little input in whether a child must begin psychopharmacotherapy for his or her ADHD. B) there is a potential for abuse of these medications as well as problematic side effects. C) psychopharmacotherapy leads to an increased risk for suicide in patients diagnosed with ADHD. D) there is no scientific evidence that psychopharmacotherapy is useful is reducing the symptoms for children with ADHD.
Nicole's parents expect her to do well at school and to complete her assignments on time and in a manner that she would be proud of
They tell Nicole that they want her to succeed in school because they want her to have many opportunities when she reaches adulthood. They explain that if she does not do well in math then she will be unable to be an engineer, a doctor, or a carpenter because those professions rely on mathematics. They also set similar expectations for her behavior at home. Nicole's parents are most likely a. uninvolved. c. authoritative. b. permissive. d. authoritarian.
As an alternative to infant tests, some researchers have turned to __________ measures to assess early mental development
A) adult IQ B) operant learning C) information-processing D) classical conditioning