Deck 11: Peers, Friends, and Play

Question 1

Jalen is a highly rejected child. Compared to others in his class, he is likely to

A) change his peer status within two years.
B) feel that everyone ignores him.
C) show behavior problems several years later.
D) ignore signs of hostility from other students.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Gender segregation tends to be enforced by

A) children.
B) parents.
C) teachers.
D) society.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

A key to improving a student's peer status is

A) placing the student in a new environment.
B) changing the student's behavior.
C) moving the student's desk to the front of the room.
D) holding the student back a year (retaining in grade).

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Well-executed cooperative learning tends to

A) promote good peer relations as students work together.
B) undermine peer relations because some students do all the work.
C) improve achievement of high achievers but not low achievers.
D) reduce peer status of rejected students, who fight during group work.

Question 5

On the average, which ethnic group is most popular?

A) White
B) Black
C) Latino
D) No ethnic group has been found to be most popular.

Question 6

A child's peer status is primarily a result of

A) the way other students treat him.
B) the cues that teachers make about how he should be treated.
C) the way he treats other students.
D) factors that have not been determined by researchers.

Question 7

Some children are popular but not well liked. What are they called by psychologists?

A) rejected
B) bully leaders
C) controversial
D) domineering fighters

Question 8

Children with imaginary friends tend to

A) be imaginative.
B) experience nightmares.
C) have poor relations with other children.
D) have poor relations with adults.

Question 9

Which of the following is NOT related to peer popularity during elementary school?

A) social skill
B) intelligence
C) attractiveness
D) ethnicity

Question 10

Which children most need intervention in order to improve well-being?

A) popular
B) neglected
C) controversial
D) rejected

Question 11

Children who are bully leaders or tough/popular are likely to experience what peer status?

A) popular
B) neglected
C) controversial
D) average

Question 12

The influence of peer pressure

A) tends to be negative.
B) depends on the peer network.
C) is directed toward sex and drugs.
D) is generally against academic achievement.

Question 13

The graph shown below represents children's _______ as they grow older.

A) tendency to spend more time with child companions
B) tendency to spend less time with child companions
C) increasing aggression
D) decreasing aggression

Question 14

Which type of peer status is most common?

A) popular
B) rejected
C) controversial
D) average

Question 15

To promote good friendships for their children, parents should do which of the following?

A) use authoritarian parenting style
B) coach friendship skills and how to repair relationships
C) encourage their children to date starting about age 14
D) resist the temptation to help their children choose their friends

Question 16

Nancy and Marta are friends. Both are athletic and like softball and volleyball. They like the same movies and dislike the same movies. Their friendship is most likely a result of which of the following?

A) cooperative play
B) homophily
C) heterophily
D) clique

Question 17

Which children are LEAST likely to change peer status?

A) neglected
B) controversial
C) rejected
D) happy

Question 18

Which link to peer rejection is strongest and most consistent across countries?

A) low achievement
B) aggression
C) low SES
D) there are no clear patterns across countries

Question 19

Which of the following is an attribute of well-executed cooperative learning?

A) allow students to discover the criteria for evaluation
B) encourage the groups to provide their own feedback
C) hold both groups and individuals accountable
D) use groups of 8 to 10 students

Question 20

Who among the following is most likely influenced by negative peer pressure?

A) Antoine hangs around with high achievers who are committed to attending highly ranked universities
B) DJ believes that everyone engages in occasional vandalism
C) Milo is sociometrically popular
D) Ivan has authoritative parents who use inductive discipline

Question 21

What is the term for small group learning that involves a shared goal?

Question 22

In general, play

A) helps children want to go to school, but does little to support learning.
B) supports academic learning.
C) diverts children from academic learning.
D) can lead to injury and should be avoided in school.

Question 23

According to a study described in the text, children ages 9-11 are likely to have contact with the opposite sex under what condition?

A) call insults at them or push them
B) kiss them and run away
C) invite them to play at your house
D) sit in the same seat on the school bus

Question 24

Which of the following is true of play?

A) it causes self-control and emotion regulation
B) it is correlated with self-control and emotion regulation but does not cause them
C) it is unrelated to verbal ability and problem solving ability
D) it reduces social competence

Question 25

Who among the following is most likely to have sociometric popularity?

A) Emilia voluntarily helps other children in her class and is sensitive to others' feelings.
B) Roger is aggressive and insults his classmates.
C) Jamie is cool and wears what is in style, but is also mean to less popular kids.
D) Carmen does not know many kids in her class and keeps to herself.

Question 26

In Regina's class, some kids list her as popular and someone they would like to work with while others list her as a least-liked classmate. What is Regina's popularity or peer status classification?

Question 27

According to research, what percent of youth identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual?

A) one percent or less
B) less than 10%
C) 10-20%
D) 20-25%

Question 28

Play in school for adolescents could be termed

A) rough-and-tumble play.
B) cooperative play.
C) mind play or mind games.
D) play stations.

Question 29

Two boys, Arthur and Vernon, are rolling in the dirt as they tussle and push each other. They are smiling as they jump up and mush rotten apples onto each other. They are engaged in

A) aggression.
B) functional play.
C) rough-and-tumble play.
D) parallel play.

Question 30

Four children are playing together. They assign pretend roles of mommy, daddy, boss at work, and teacher. They take on the assigned roles, and plan the meaning of the roles. They interact extensively. They are engaged in which of the following play type?

A) parallel
B) cooperative
C) associative
D) onlooker

Question 31

Countries that show higher achievement than the United States tend to have

A) less recess time than the U.S.
B) more recess time than the U.S.
C) about the same amount of recess time as the U.S.
D) no recess time.

Question 32

For high school students, regular dating has been linked to which of the following?

A) improved grades and improved academic motivation
B) lower grades and lower academic motivation
C) improved peer popularity
D) lower peer popularity

Question 33

What do psychologists call kids who are popular and social leaders, but are not well liked by many children?

Question 34

Which of the following would be considered a serious game?

A) on a computer, use virtual flashcards that teach about Nazi Germany, Battle of the Bulge, and the  Holocaust
B) on a computer, design an amusement park and learn about money, accounting, and prediction with statistics
C) with a game console, play a first-person shooter game where the goal is to kill the enemy
D) out on the playground, play dodge ball

Question 35

Which of the following is a cause for concern?

A) solitary passive play for an only child at home
B) solitary passive play in a busy classroom
C) solitary active play for an only child at home
D) solitary active play in a busy classroom

Question 36

Two children are playing side by side. They are talking and handling toys, but are not really interacting with each other. What type of play is this?

Question 37

A rejected child and a popular/star child are both bumped in the hallway by a socially isolated child. How are the rejected child and popular child likely to differ in their interpretation of the bump? Why?