Chapter 6: Socioemotional Development in Early Childhood

In the context of the types of children’s play, which of the following is most likely a characteristic of constructive play?

• It involves deriving pleasure from exercising sensorimotor schemes.

• It increases in the preschool years, as symbolic play increases and sensorimotor play decreases.

• It involves interaction with peers.

• It leads to children transforming objects and acting toward them as if they were other objects.

In the context of working parents, a consistent finding is that in contrast to children whose mothers are not employed outside the home, children of working mothers

• have more egalitarian views of gender.

• engage in more gender stereotyping.

• are more stressed and demanding.

• enjoy more free time.

Tom and Katie have recently split up, but for the benefit of their child, they attempt to provide one another support in jointly raising their child. This is an example of

• joint parenting.

• cooperative parenting.

• coexisting parenting.

• coparenting.

Josh's mother makes his favorite food—burgers, fries, and pizza—every night for dinner. His mother lets Josh play as much as he wants to and study only when he feels like it, and she imposes no fixed bedtime. Josh's mom is most likely a(n)

• authoritarian parent.

• authoritative parent.

• indulgent parent.

• neglectful parent.

Which parenting style can lead to egocentric, domineering, and noncompliant behavior in children?

• authoritarian parenting

• authoritative parenting

• indulgent parenting

• neglectful parenting

A _____ is a cognitive structure, a network of associations that guides an individual's perceptions.

• format

• schema

• subset

• system

Sets of expectations that prescribe how females and males should think, act, and feel are known as gender

• roles.

• identities.

• expectancies.

• rules.

Which of the following approaches holds that the processes of reinforcement, punishment, and imitation explain the development of moral behavior?

• Freud's psychoanalytic approach

• the evolutionary psychology approach

• the behavioral and social cognitive approach

• the biological approach

Ben, a 12-year-old, judges the rightness or goodness of behavior by considering its consequences, not the intentions of the actor. In the context of Jean Piaget’s theory of moral development, Ben will most likely be classified as a(n)

• autonomous moralist.

• heteronomous moralist.

• pragmatist.

• authoritarian.

Which of the following terms refers to responding to another person's feelings with an emotion that echoes the other's feelings?

• anxiety

• empathy

• coaching

• modeling