The greatest worry of most adoptive, foster, and stepparents is that the adoptive child in their life will:

A. not physically resemble them.
B. fail to bond with them.
C. lack intelligence.
D. be carrying some undetected genetic disorder.


Answer: B

Psychology

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Wanda was the hardest working student in her school. Her constant efforts were rewarded at graduation when she received an award as the university's best math student. She confessed at that time that in elementary school she had failed math and was told by her teacher that she should pick an occupation that did not require her to work with numbers. What might Alfred Adler have said about Wanda?

A. Wanda is the exception to the rule, in that she should have instead displayed an inferiority complex. B. She most likely is a first born child. C. Her striving for achievement resulted from her earlier feelings of inferiority. D. She achieved because she never saw herself as inferior, regardless of what happened to her in elementary school.

Psychology

Kai has been raised in an intellectually impoverished environment, with no access to books and very few age-appropriate toys. The reaction range model suggests that Kai will:

a. show a steady decrease in IQ score during early childhood and adolescence b. perform worse than the majority of his peers on standardized tests of intelligence c. have a narrower intellectual reaction range than children raised in more stimulating environments d. score near the bottom of his potential IQ range

Psychology

According to Siegert & Stamp (1994), individuals surviving their first big fights in relations report:

a. the conflicts are dramatic enough to prevent future relationships. b. the conflicts lead to a greater sense of mutual commitment to the relationship. c. subsequent fights occur more frequently. d. previous fights were less destructive in nature.

Psychology

The self-system, as described by Bandura, is best described as what?

A) A set of cognitive processes that weigh the outcome expectancy with the reinforcement value B) A set of cognitive processes that develops throughout a person's lifespan to help he or she create reoccurring patterns of behavior that work in all situations C) A set of cognitive processes that aid a person in accomplishing goals that will better his or her chances at survival D) A set of cognitive personality variables that captures one's habitual means of interpreting events in his or her life E) A theory that describes how people have a sense of self-preservation

Psychology