In the text, the authors report that a person's popularity with peers is determined by multiple ...

In the text, the authors report that a person's popularity with peers is determined by multiple factors, including social skills, age at puberty, and academic achievement. This illustrates the concept of
 
  a. holistic development.
  b. cumulative development.
  c. continuous development.
  d. plasticity.

Question 2

Early evaluations of Head Start compensatory preschool education concluded that the benefits of this schooling
 
  a. disappear after about two years.
  b. yield lifelong gains in IQ scores.
  c. are strong in boys but absent in girls.
  d. are not seen even immediately following the schooling.

Question 3

Rita's parents are concerned about the fact that she is not speaking as well as her older brother did when he was two years old. At a visit to the pediatrician, Rita's parents learn that her speech delay is likely due to her frequent ear infections, which have at times impaired her hearing. This is an example of the concept of
 
  a. cumulative development.
  b. continuous development.
  c. holistic development.
  d. plasticity.

Question 4

Identifying the sources of racial/ethnic IQ group differences is tricky and confusing because
 
  a. psychologists falsify the IQ scores of tested children.
  b. many who do IQ testing are psychometrically incompetent.
  c. socioeconomic status is confounded with ethnic identity.
  d. cultural test bias tends to inflate scores of all races.

Question 5

The holistic approach to development suggests that
 
  a. parents notice the gaps (holes) in the child's abilities and work to fill those gaps.
  b. traits or abilities are distinct and show separate developmental patterns of change.
  c. aspects of developmental change are interrelated.
  d. developmental trends in animals or humans are similar.

Question 6

The fact that the IQ scores of two-thirds of the impoverished people in the US who are Caucasian are not significantly different from those of ethnic minority groups would support the notion that
 
  a. the genetic differences between Caucasians and minorities account for the lower scores of some ethnic minority groups.
  b. the IQ differences between African Americans and Caucasians are likely the result of poverty.
  c. Caucasian people who are dull are likely to be poor.
  d. poverty leads to a decline in IQ of Caucasians, but not African Americans.