Joshua is a 14-year-old child with Down syndrome. If he is like other children with this syndrome, he is likely to follow which course of development?
a. He will meet the same developmental milestones as his peers but at a much slower rate.
b. He will follow a similar path of development as same-aged peers but plateau at the point where tasks require higher-level thinking skills.
c. He will never accomplish developmental tasks that require language, social interactions, or other adaptive behavior skills.
d. It is unlikely that he will accomplish the same developmental skills as same-aged peers even with intense and early intervention.
B
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a. The level of collective efficacy in sports teams is directly proportional to their previous performance. c. Collective efficacy in families occur where children are raised with strict guidance from parents. b. Violence and criminal behavior increases the feeling of collective efficacy in neighborhoods to combat violence. d. Office departments which are high in collective efficacy have been shown to increase on-the-job stress.
A researcher is interested in whether students who are musicians have higher intelligence test scores than students in the general population. The researcher predicts that playing a musical instrument is associated with higher intelligence test scores. The researcher selects a sample of 75 musicians from local high schools and gives them an intelligence test. She compares their average
intelligence to that of students in the general population and finds that zobt = +1.92 . This is a _____ test and the researcher should conclude _____. a. one-tailed; that students who are musicians score significantly higher on intelligence tests b. two-tailed; that students who are musicians score significantly higher on intelligence tests c. one-tailed; that students who are musicians do not score significantly higher on intelligencetests d. two-tailed; that students who are musicians do not score significantly higher on intelligencetests
Critics charged that Freud's theory of personality is not very useful in:
A. treating males and females equally B. explaining biological drives C. understanding how personality develops D. making predictions
What is the CORRECT order of Jean Piaget's stages of cognitive development?
A) preoperational, sensorimotor, concrete operational, formal operational B) sensorimotor, concrete operational, preoperational, formal operational C) sensorimotor, preoperational, formal operational, concrete operational D) sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational