Q 01/05

Which bird lays its eggs in other species' nests, leaving the hosts to raise its chicks?

A) Common cuckoo

B) Eurasian magpie

C) Barn swallow

D) European robin

Answer · why

A) Common cuckoo

The common cuckoo is a brood parasite: the female lays an egg in a host nest, often a reed warbler's, and the hatchling evicts the host's eggs so the ...

Q 02/05

Which psychologist identified the authoritative, authoritarian and permissive parenting styles?

A) Diana Baumrind

B) Jean Piaget

C) Erik Erikson

D) Sigmund Freud

Answer · why

A) Diana Baumrind

Diana Baumrind's research in the 1960s and beyond identified three main parenting styles—authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive. Later, Maccoby ...

Q 03/05

Which land animal has one of the longest gestation periods, often exceeding 600 days?

A) Giraffe

B) Elephant

C) Rhinoceros

D) Camel

Answer · why

B) Elephant

The elephant's gestation runs about 22 months, roughly 660 days, the longest of any mammal; calves are born well developed and can stand within hours.

Q 04/05

What adoption arrangement has no contact between birth parents and adoptive family?

A) Semi-open adoption

B) Open adoption

C) Closed adoption

D) Independent adoption

Answer · why

C) Closed adoption

A closed adoption shares no identifying information and has no contact between the birth family and the adoptive family after finalization, unlike ope...

Q 05/05

In 'Centuries of Childhood' (1960), Philippe Ariès argued medieval Europeans saw children as what?

A) Divine messengers

B) Innocent angels

C) Property of the state

D) Little adults

Answer · why

D) Little adults

Ariès read medieval paintings of small, adult-dressed figures as evidence that children were seen as little adults and childhood was not a separate st...

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