Child Development Chapter 4 Assessment

1. If parents hope a child will fulfill other needs or goals, the parent-child relationship may not be healthy.

• True

• False

2. Maturity is different from age.

• True

• False

3. According to Galinsky’s Parenting Stages, during the teen years, parents must teach their child the "rules of behavior" through reasoning, rewards, and punishments.

A. True

• True

• False

4. Some direct costs of having children are foregone income, foregone career opportunities, and time spent in child care.

• True

• False

5. Couples should feel guilty if they want only one child.

• True

• False

6. Each social group may have its own language, beliefs, attitudes, values, rituals, and skills that children learn through a process called socialization.

• True

• False

7. Parents who value diversity point out the benefit of learning from people who are not like themselves.

• True

• False

8. Through punishment, children learn to act in ways that society finds acceptable.

• True

• False

9. An example of a parenting style is love withdrawal.

• True

• False

10. Possible results of an authoritarian parenting style is creating children who are curious and self-reliant.

• True

• False