Florida International University

SOP 4731

Chapter 5

Development and Socialization

1)Research with infants and the perception of phonemes reveals that

2. What can be said about sensitive windows for language acquisition?

3. In what way does exposure to a language at a young age affect our abilities to discriminate between different sounds?

4. Korean differs from English in that English has an /f/ and a /p/ phoneme, whereas Korean lacks the /f/ phoneme. To many Koreans, these two phonemes sound the same. Applying what is discussed in the textbook about language acquisition to Ji-su, a Korean, which of the following would you most likely expect to occur?

5. Lee Hom and Eason are 25-year-old Hong Kong natives who have recently moved to Canada after having lived in Hong Kong all their lives. Based on research into a sensitive period for cultural adjustment, which of the following best characterizes their adjustment to Canada?

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6. Xing, a Chinese stockbroker, and Joe, a Canadian stockbroker, are being asked to predict

the trend of a stock that has been gaining value for the past three years. Xing likely thinks the stock will               , and Joe likely thinks the stock will                                                                                                     .

7. American and Chinese children were recruited for a study. All children were either thirteen years old or five years old. They were first told that a child was happy every day the past week; then they were asked to predict the likelihood that the child would be happy tomorrow. To analyze the data, researchers matched 13-year-old American children’s responses to those of the 13-year-old Chinese children. The same was done with the 5-year-old children’s responses. Which of the following would be most likely to occur with this analysis?

8. Shweder and colleagues found that Indian parents are more likely to sleep in the same room with their children than are American parents. Given their studies, which of these is the most compelling explanation for their results?

9. Which of the following is/are accessibility universals?

10. The Parkers are an American family planning for how their family members will be sleeping.

The moral value that will NOT be reflected in their sleeping arrangements is

11. The Blurgs, an alien family from Neptune, want to build a new house. This family consists of a father, a mother, a 20-year-old son, a 10-year-old son, and a baby daughter. When deciding on sleeping arrangements, the people of Neptune greatly value respect for hierarchy, as defined by Shweder and colleagues in their study examining cultural differences between the Americans and Indians in sleeping arrangements. Which of the following most accurately reflects this value?

12. The Singhs, an Indian family, are trying to decide on room arrangements for a new house that they are building. Which of the following moral principles is likely to be the LEAST important for this family?        

13. Jack and Jill are two parents who place great emphasis on the value of the sacred couple. They also have a postpubescent son, a prepubescent daughter, and a toddler son. What sleeping arrangement are they most likely going to have?

14. The Westermarcks, a large American family with growing sons and daughters, need to build a new house, and are particularly concerned about making appropriate sleeping arrangements. Based on Shweder and colleagues’ research, which moral principle will the family consider the most important?

15. Which of the following statements is true about parent-child interactions across cultures?

16. Two parents are trying to plan sleeping arrangements for their three children: a 15-year-old daughter, a 3-year-old son, and a 2-year-old daughter. They decide that the 2-year-old would sleep alone, while the 15-year-old and the 3-year-old would sleep in the same room. The parents would sleep separately. According to this arrangement, which of the following principles was violated?

17. Which of the following statements about the relationships between authoritative and authoritarian parenting styles is true?

18. Shawna, a mother from the United Kingdom, is trying to determine which parenting style she should use with her child to maximize the child’s school achievement, autonomy, and self- reliance. According to Baumrind’s typology as found among Western samples, which parenting style should she use?       
19. As a parent, Leslie thinks that he should place as few restrictions on his children as possible, and give them the warmth and responsiveness that children need. What parenting style is this indicative of?

20. Wan-Ying wants to use the jiào xun type of parenting on her child. What is she NOT likely to do?

21. A 7-year-old East Asian child is likely to have all of the following EXCEPT a(n)

22. Yuexi, a Chinese mother, wants to use strong parental control with her child. Based on the textbook, which of the following would most likely NOT occur as a result?

23. Xiao, a 7-year-old Chinese child, and Jess, a 7-year-old American child, are each listening to an audio tape in their individual rooms. At one point, the audio on both tapes gets covered by static. Xiao and Jess are asked to guess what was said. Which of the following is the likeliest to happen?

24. The term “noun bias” means that

25. Shuang is a Chinese mother. Compared with Shuang, Alex, an American mother, is more likely to

26. The “terrible twos” is a developmental stage that

27. Adolescent rebellion