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Human Development - HDFC

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...






2. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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3. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes






4. Cross-cultural research on the effects of schooling suggests that schooling...






5. Adolescent boys and girls - whose friends engage in high levels of disruptive behavior at the beginning of a school year - are more likely to experience ___________ in the level of their own disruptive behavior later in the school year.






6. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...






7. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.






8. The understanding that the properties of an object or substance remain the same even if its appearance is altered in some superficial way is called...






9. Kohlberg's process of sex-role development mostly closely follows...

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10. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.






11. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?






12. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?






13. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...






14. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...






15. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?






16. Authoritative parents are...






17. Various studies of the influence of television violence on children's behavior have found...






18. Not a risk factor for child abuse?






19. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...






20. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?






21. Piaget believed that the greatest limitation to young children's thinking was...






22. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?






23. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation






24. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...






25. Authoritarian






26. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...






27. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...






28. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?






29. A primary sex characteristic...






30. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.






31. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.






32. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

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33. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.






34. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits






35. In the reciprocal-teaching approach...






36. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...






37. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation






38. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...






39. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...






40. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...






41. In this stage of sexual identity development are sexual-minority individuals who have come to terms with their homosexuality and are 'out' in their communities?






42. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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43. Similarity between friends can contribute to...






44. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...






45. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...






46. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...






47. Research on the use of interactive media suggests that boys who play computer games often spend _________ time with their friends outside of school than boys who spend little to no time playing on the computer.






48. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...






49. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?






50. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?