One way to assess children's status among their peers is to ask each child in a classroom to choose which other children he or she would most like to sit next to
or to do various things with, and which other children he or she would least like to do these things with. This technique is called
a. meta-analysis.
b. social dosage technique.
c. resilience assessment.
d. sociometry.
Q. 2Social skills training programs are interventions in which children are taught specific, discrete behaviors that can facilitate effective social interactions, like making eye contact and asking appropriate questions.
Assessments of these interventions indicate that they have modest success in improving peer acceptance. Which of these is the best description of a major shortcoming of these intervention programs?
a. Socially unskilled children are already perceived in biased ways by peers, and that perception is not being addressed by the intervention.
b. Social skills are not the problem. Children who experience low peer acceptance usually already have adequate social skills.
c. These programs are introduced too late. Social skills training must be done much earlier than the middle childhood or adolescent years to have any real effect.
d. Socially unskilled children are not capable of learning these basic skills, because their problems stem from a difficult temperament.
Q. 3The term degrouping refers to
a. a strategy for solving math problems that boys often learn but girls do not.
b. a trend in middle adolescence for cliques to become less important to peer interactions.
c. a therapeutic intervention which requires children or adolescents to mix with members of a different crowd from their usual one.
d. the rejection of a crowd member for violating the norms of the group.
Q. 4________ groups appear to be especially effective among high school students.
a. Relaxation
b. Divorce
c. Academic
d. Anger management
Q. 5Which of the following sections of the intake interview would the client discuss her age, employment status, and marital status?
a) Identifying information
b) Presenting problem
c) History
d) Initial impressions
Q. 6In adolescence and early adulthood, males and females begin to spend more time in mixed-gender groups. Studies of who has more influence on the outcome of problem solving in mixed-gender groups indicate that
a. females have an advantage because they have learned to negotiate in their
single-gender groups.
b. males have an advantage because they have learned to negotiate in their
single-gender groups.
c. females have a disadvantage because males do less turn-taking and are
more domineering.
d. males have a disadvantage because females are more skilled at expressing
agreement.
Q. 7Recent research indicates that children who spend more time in same-gender groups show greater increases in gender-related behaviors over time than children who spend less time in same-gender groups.
This process is referred to as the
a. social competence process.
b. degrouping effect.
c. social impact process.
d. social dosage effect.
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