PSYCH 643 ADVANCED PSYCHOLOGY
ACTUAL PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉The congruence or agreement between parenting styles of
mothers and fathers within the same family have found fairly high
agreement among parents who use a(n) _______________ style and no
agreement in families where one parent uses a(n) _______________
style. Answer: permissive; authoritative
◉Children with __________ parents have the worst outcomes. Answer:
disengaged
◉What percentage of children today live in a family with two
married parents in their first marriage? Answer: 46%
◉Which of the following statements accurately describes the
findings on differential parental treatment?
A. Children think their parents treat them differently from their
siblings, but in actuality parents have been found to treat each of
their children practically the same.
,B. Siblings who perceive that they are treated less favorably show
lower levels of adjustment and more conflicted sibling relationships.
C. In stepfamilies, non-biological parents tend to be more lenient
with their stepchildren than they are with their biological children.
D. Children have more dissatisfaction with parental treatment when
there are large gaps between the sibling ages. Answer: B. Siblings
who perceive that they are treated less favorably show lower levels
of adjustment and more conflicted sibling relationships.
◉The challenge for parents of adolescents is
A. when to shift from induction discipline to power assertion.
B. how to balance granting autonomy with maintaining
connectedness.
C. figuring out how to cope as adolescents break their attachment to
their parents.
D. deciding how firm you need to be to control adolescent behavior.
Answer: B. how to balance granting autonomy with maintaining
connectedness.
◉Research that has compared children raised by gay or lesbian
parents and children raised by heterosexual parents has found
A. very few differences between them.
B. that children in homosexual families suffer from more depression.
C. that children in heterosexual families do better in school.
, D. that children in homosexual families are more likely to self-
identify as gay or lesbian in early adulthood. Answer: A. very few
differences between them.
◉Inductive discipline involves:
A. using firm discipline and control to ensure that the child behaves
in an acceptable way.
B. the parents temporarily making themselves emotionally
unavailable to the child, with a condition for what the child needs to
do to change the situation.
C. the parent creating a positive relationship with the child so that
the child will find the parent to be an attractive model to imitate.
D. setting clear limits for children's behavior, giving consequences
for negative behavior, and explaining to the child why a behavior is
wrong and what the child can do to fix it. Answer: D. setting clear
limits for children's behavior, giving consequences for negative
behavior, and explaining to the child why a behavior is wrong and
what the child can do to fix it.
◉When a child is placed in foster care
A. it is very similar to an adoption, except that the family receives
financial support from the state for caring for the child.
B. the child remains in the foster home until the child "ages out" of
the system at age 25.
ACTUAL PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉The congruence or agreement between parenting styles of
mothers and fathers within the same family have found fairly high
agreement among parents who use a(n) _______________ style and no
agreement in families where one parent uses a(n) _______________
style. Answer: permissive; authoritative
◉Children with __________ parents have the worst outcomes. Answer:
disengaged
◉What percentage of children today live in a family with two
married parents in their first marriage? Answer: 46%
◉Which of the following statements accurately describes the
findings on differential parental treatment?
A. Children think their parents treat them differently from their
siblings, but in actuality parents have been found to treat each of
their children practically the same.
,B. Siblings who perceive that they are treated less favorably show
lower levels of adjustment and more conflicted sibling relationships.
C. In stepfamilies, non-biological parents tend to be more lenient
with their stepchildren than they are with their biological children.
D. Children have more dissatisfaction with parental treatment when
there are large gaps between the sibling ages. Answer: B. Siblings
who perceive that they are treated less favorably show lower levels
of adjustment and more conflicted sibling relationships.
◉The challenge for parents of adolescents is
A. when to shift from induction discipline to power assertion.
B. how to balance granting autonomy with maintaining
connectedness.
C. figuring out how to cope as adolescents break their attachment to
their parents.
D. deciding how firm you need to be to control adolescent behavior.
Answer: B. how to balance granting autonomy with maintaining
connectedness.
◉Research that has compared children raised by gay or lesbian
parents and children raised by heterosexual parents has found
A. very few differences between them.
B. that children in homosexual families suffer from more depression.
C. that children in heterosexual families do better in school.
, D. that children in homosexual families are more likely to self-
identify as gay or lesbian in early adulthood. Answer: A. very few
differences between them.
◉Inductive discipline involves:
A. using firm discipline and control to ensure that the child behaves
in an acceptable way.
B. the parents temporarily making themselves emotionally
unavailable to the child, with a condition for what the child needs to
do to change the situation.
C. the parent creating a positive relationship with the child so that
the child will find the parent to be an attractive model to imitate.
D. setting clear limits for children's behavior, giving consequences
for negative behavior, and explaining to the child why a behavior is
wrong and what the child can do to fix it. Answer: D. setting clear
limits for children's behavior, giving consequences for negative
behavior, and explaining to the child why a behavior is wrong and
what the child can do to fix it.
◉When a child is placed in foster care
A. it is very similar to an adoption, except that the family receives
financial support from the state for caring for the child.
B. the child remains in the foster home until the child "ages out" of
the system at age 25.
