A 21. A 7-year-old East Asian child is likely to have all of the following EXCEPT a(n) a) lack of family cohesion from strong parental control. b) tendency not to meet his or her mother's expectations for school. c) inability to distinguish all human phonemes. d) expectation of nonlinear trends. e) desk at home. ANS: A C 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? a) Her child feels a lack of family cohesion. b) Her child is less happy than with less parental control. c) Her child perceives more parental warmth than with less parental control. d) Her child has better academic achievement than with less parental control. e) Her child feels more parental acceptance than with less parental control. ANS: A B 23. Xiao, a 7-year-old Chinese child, and Jess, a 7-year-old American child, are each listen- ing to an audio tape in their individual rooms. At one point, the audio on both tapes gets cov- ered by static. Xiao and Jess are asked to guess what was said. Which of the following is the likeliest to happen? a) They both guess that the inaudible part refers to a noun. b) Xiao guesses that the inaudible part refers to a verb; Jess guesses that the inaudible part refers to a noun. c) Xiao guesses that the inaudible part refers to a noun; Jess guesses that the inaudible part refers to a verb. d) They both guess that the inaudible part refers to a verb. e) There is no reason to expect that their guesses would either be the same or dif ferent. ANS: B 30.According to Stevenson and Stigler's study on cultural dif f erences in math performance at school, if American parents wanted their children to do well in math, what aspect of Chinese parenting should they mimic? a) provide a desk at home for their children b) teach their children numbers and math before entering kindergarten c) give their children less schooling d) learn how to do math in English
e) let the children set their own learning paces ANS: A