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Test your knowledge of child development by deciding whether each of the following statements is true or false, and then check your answers as you read the chapter.

1 T□ F□ Well-designed research can tell us whether a theory is true or false.

2 T□ F□ Freud’s psychoanalytic theory is based on outdated ideas so it is not relevant to the field of child development today.

3 T□ F□ The best way to get rid of an undesirable behavior in a child is to punish the child for doing it.

4 T□ F□ Young children learn math more effectively from games such as pick-up sticks than from working out written arithmetic problems.

5 T□ F□ Infants must have skin-to-skin contact with their mother within the first few hours after birth for bonding, or love, to develop.

6 T□ F□ A good theory should be universal, applying to all children in all situations.

7 T□ F□ When conducting research by doing an observation, it is important that the person who is doing the observation does not know the purpose of the research.

8 T□ F□ Today over 900 colleges do not require the SAT or ACT for admission.

9 T□ F□ There is little scientific value in the study of single individuals.

10 T□ F□ Even if research consistently finds that children whose mothers talk to them a great deal have high self-esteem, we should not conclude that frequent conversations with parents build self-esteem in children.

Correct answers: (1) F, (2) F, (3) F, (4) T, (5) F, (6) F, (7) T, (8) T, (9) F, (10) T