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A mother asks her doctor, Is my baby normal in comparison with her age group? The mother is concerned with her child's ____ development.
 
  a. normative
  b. ideographic
  c. reliability of
  d. plasticity of

Question 2

Which of these is most likely to promote high performance by African-American children on intelligence tests?
 
  a. Label the test as a nonevaluative exercise
  b. Motivate the children by maximizing stereotype threat
  c. Enroll African-American children in remedial programs that set minimal low goals
  d. Tell the children that the goal is to beat the Caucasians

Question 3

Normative development consists of
 
  a. changes that optimize developmental outcomes.
  b. changes that result from maturation.
  c. developmental changes that are typical of many children.
  d. individual variations among children.

Question 4

Negative stereotypes tend to lower IQ test performance
 
  a. when the test is labeled as a nonevaluative exercise.
  b. of stigmatized racial minorities.
  c. of middle-class Caucasian children, who feel pressure to excel.
  d. for children in general, regardless of ethnic identity.

Question 5

The research goal of description is summarized as,
 
  a. How?
  b. Best
  c. What?
  d. Why?

Question 6

The motivational factor in IQ testing refers to how
 
  a. strongly a child works hard to excel during the test.
  b. African-American children are challenged to disprove racist theory.
  c. Caucasian examiners secretly lower the scores of African-American children.
  d. innate genetic ability is expressed through the score.

Question 7

In contrast with well-fed American babies, impoverished babies in rural Africa achieve movement skills at consistently younger average ages. This is an example of research on ____ development.
 
  a. optimized
  b. psychophysical
  c. the ecological validity of
  d. normative

Question 8

When intelligence is assessed with culture-fair tests,
 
  a. African-American children score higher than Caucasian children.
  b. IQ test scores do not predict school achievement.
  c. Caucasian children still earn higher scores than African-American children.
  d. African-American children earn equal scores as Caucasians when the test items have been translated into urban dialects.

Question 9

Suppose researchers find that the average American baby begins to stand by itself at the age of 10 months. This finding is related to ____ development.
 
  a. psychoanalytic
  b. ideographic
  c. nonrepresentative
  d. normative

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