In a classic study, René A. Spitz found that institutionalized children who receive little or no social stimulation from caregivers:
A. appear depressed and withdrawn.
B. show great interest in adults when given more stimulation.
C. are responsive to strangers.
D. can speak by ten months of age.
Answer: A
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Talya, a girl from a wealthy family, is seen constantly mocking students who are impoverished. Her class teacher believes that Talya derives her condescending tone from her parents, who display similar behavior toward the poor. In this scenario, the class teacher is:
A) using the foot-in-the-door technique. B) influenced by evaluation apprehension. C) making a situational attribution. D) engaged in social loafing.
During middle childhood:
a. same-sex peer relationships decline dramatically. b. children's friends tend to be almost exclusively the same gender. c. children tend to have the same number of same- and opposite-sex friends. d. girls tend to play in larger groups than boys.
People with ______ disorders have an excessively chronic, maladaptive pattern of behavior and ways of relating to others
a) personality b) somatoform c) affective d) schizophrenic
Follow-up research on Piaget's theory indicates that children
A) regard adults with unquestioning respect. B) do not regard adults with unquestioning respect. C) cannot discriminate between truthfulness and lying until the end of elementary school. D) do not develop differential notions about the legitimacy of authority figures until the age of 10.