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Human Development - HDFC

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1. In the reciprocal-teaching approach...
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Mental operations.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.

2. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
Compensation.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Masturbation
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking

3. A child's ability to recognize that two rows of pennies each with the same number of pennies have the same number of pennies when one row of pennies is longer than the other is called...
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Moratorium
Conservation.
The survival goal.

4. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
Identity formation
Privileged domains.
Reciprocal teaching.
Violence

5. Not a way schooling differs from traditional apprenticeship training?

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6. 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.
School-cutoff strategy.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Internalizing problems.
more

7. The school-cutoff strategy helps researchers to...

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8. Alfred Binet is known for creating...
Elaboration.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
12 to 15 hours
Rehearsal.

9. Cross-cultural studies of concrete operations demonstrate that...

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10. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Decision making
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
The human papillomavirus.
Me-self

11. Which type of aggression are preschool aged girls more likely to engage in than preschool boys?
Relational aggression
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Authoritarian
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.

12. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
Empathy
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
support emotion and security needs.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.

13. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
Formal operations
Computer.
Exosystem.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.

14. Which of the following categories of racial socialization messages appears to be associated with stronger cognitive abilities and fewer behavior problems among African-American children?
Cultural socialization
12 to 15 hours
A. more wooden buttons.
Conservation.

15. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Disciplinarian
When parents are not getting along
clique

16. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits
Decoding.
Motor drive
Me-self
Need about 8 hours.

17. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
Elaboration.
Socioeconomic status.
Disciplinarian
The human papillomavirus.

18. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Financial recession.
. psychodynamic view

19. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that
. children older than seven years of age
positive emotions
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Instrumental aggression.

20. Research in which participants carry electronic pagers that beep at random intervals - signaling that they need to fill out a brief report on their current feelings is called...
Puberty.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Experience sampling method.
Gay and lesbian parents

21. In which stage of forming a sexual minority development would an individual who has had homosexual experiences and recognizes that they prefer sexual relations with members of their own sex but do not openly acknowledge their preference be?
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Conservation.
Identity assumption

22. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Personality formation
Uneven and variable
Apprenticeship
Prevention science.

23. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...
transductive reasoning
Spermarche.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Multiple intelligences.

24. One of the key aspects of Piaget's formal operations involves...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
stereotypes
Dyslexia.

25. Vygotsky believed that which of the following plays a key role in self-regulation and can allow children to create their own zones of proximal development?
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
At risk for obesity.
School-cutoff strategy.
direct instruction - Play

26. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...
Independent.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Identification.
Puberty.

27. A child who says - 'The liquid is higher - but the glass is thinner -' when asked the reason for their answer to a task of conservation is demonstrating...
Emotional climate of family
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Specific learning disabilities.
Compensation.

28. NOT characteristic of school problems?
Theory theory
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Financial recession.

29. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...
Conservation.
Metamemory.
Disciplinarian
Spermarche.

30. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Biological maturation.
The Oedipus complex.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.

31. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Skipping.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
An infusion of pubertal hormones

32. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
Identity formation
Script.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
When parents are not getting along

33. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
Sociodramatic play.
Apprenticeship
Genetic and environmental factors.
clique

34. A primary sex characteristic...
stereotypes
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Uterus growth.
Identification through differentiation

35. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
Internalizing problems.
support emotion and security needs.
Rehearsal.
Emphasize obedience.

36. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...
Effortful control.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Cultural socialization

37. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Empathy
Theory theory
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Sensory register

38. Not a risk factor for child abuse?
Identity formation
The Oedipus complex.
. children older than seven years of age
. psychodynamic view

39. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
Gay and lesbian parents
Socialization.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.

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

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41. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Higher levels of intelligence
Socialization.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

42. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Elaboration.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Auxiliary hair appears

43. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
. children older than seven years of age
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Decrease in efficiency

44. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
throw a ball overhand.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.

45. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
direct instruction - Play
Privileged domains.
Decrease in efficiency
When parents are not getting along

46. When three-year-old children are told a story about a little boy who puts candy in a drawer - leaves the room - and doesn't see when his mother then moves the candy into the kitchen - they predict the boy will look for the candy in the...
Kitchen.
Independent.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.

47. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
. children older than seven years of age
The ovaries and the testes.
Theory of mind.
Identity formation

48. Not the result of the maturation of the frontal lobe?
Apprenticeship
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Personal distress
Higher levels of intelligence

49. The extent to which friends are similar to one another is referred to as...
Formal operations.
Social interaction
Identity assumption
Homophily.

50. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...
Cultural socialization
Stage 4
Microsystem
Plan ahead.