Multiple choice quiz

Take the quiz to test your understanding of the key concepts covered in the chapter. Try testing yourself before you read the chapter to see where your strengths and weaknesses are, then test yourself again once you’ve read the chapter to see how well you’ve understood.

1. In the 5-to-7 transition, which of the following does not occur:

  1. an acceleration in physical growth
  2. growth of the permanent teeth
  3. reorganization of brain circuits
  4. a dramatic increase in the size of the brain

Answer:

d. a dramatic increase in the size of the brain

2. The new world of middle childhood is:

  1. the private and personal ‘inner space’ of thoughts and feelings
  2. the school
  3. the world outside the family
  4. the world of their society and culture

Answer:

a. the private and personal ‘inner space’ of thoughts and feelings

3. Why is it misleading to talk about school as ‘formal education’?

  1. there is ‘form’ in education such as apprenticeship
  2. there is incidental learning in school
  3. learning through participation can involve specific learning strategies
  4. all of the above

Answer:

d. all of the above

4. The understanding of people’s actions as based on private and personal beliefs and desires, viewed as internal mental states, is known as:

  1. the institutional stance
  2. the mentalistic stance
  3. the intentional stance
  4. the teleological stance

Answer:

b. the mentalistic stance

5. The games that children play in middle childhood often involve:

  1. sociodramatic roles
  2. rejection of adult figure of authority
  3. explicit rules
  4. physical aggression

Answer: 

c. explicit rules

6. Kohlberg identified three major levels of development of moral judgment. Which of the following was not one of these levels?

  1. the preconventional level
  2. the conventional level
  3. the postconventional level
  4. the unconventional level

Answer: 

d. the unconventional level

7. The institutional stance involves understanding people’s actions in terms of:

  1. the customary uses of artifacts
  2. the conventions of interaction between types of person (characters)
  3. the roles of an institution, and the rights and responsibilities of that role
  4. the complex institutional systems that make up a society

Answer: 

c. the roles of an institution, and the rights and responsibilities of that role

8. Berti and Bombi found that children in middle childhood could understand:

  1. that a bank lends money
  2. that the interest a bank makes on its loans makes possible the interest it pays on deposits
  3. that the bank makes a profit
  4. that banks are at times involved in financial crises

Answer: 

a. that a bank lends money

9. When children of different ages in the family help one another, this has been called:

  1. a chain of support
  2. sibling rivalry
  3. permissive parenting style
  4. insecure attachment

Answer: 

a. a chain of support

10. A kind of education that involves legitimate peripheral participation is:

  1. apprenticeship
  2. schooling
  3. intent observation
  4. there is no such kind of education

Answer: 

a. apprenticeship