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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Which of the following statements about children's experience with interactive media is NOT true?

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2. 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?
direct instruction - Play
Identity integration
Identification.
Increases; decreases

3. If a 5-year-old watches a little girl put a piece of candy into a drawer in the kitchen and then watches the girl's mother move the piece of candy to the refrigerator without the little girl knowing - where will the 5-year-old say the little girl wil
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Relational aggression
Socialization.
The drawer in the in kitchen

4. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Mental operations.
Auxiliary hair appears
Identity assumption
Authoritarian

5. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
Realistic mathematics education.
Identity integration
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Piaget

6. having extended family involved in their lives.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Stage 4
The survival goal.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy

7. In the reciprocal-teaching approach...
Increases
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Plan ahead.

8. In their study of planning - Gardner and Rogoff found that

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9. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
The drawer in the in kitchen
The model does not include a morality of care.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.

10. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
Violence
controlling conflict within a social group.
Thought processes.
More

11. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?
Inability to categorize objects
Script.
Interdependence
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

12. 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?
Identity assumption
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Internalizing problems.
Gina - an early-maturing female

13. A child reasons that the change in the level of a quantity of liquid brought about by pouring it from a short - wide beaker to a tall - narrow beaker is not caused by a change in the amount of the liquid - but by the fact that the taller beaker is al
Formal operations
Social and emotional development.
12 to 15 hours
Compensation.

14. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
controlling conflict within a social group.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Relational aggression

15. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Girls report feelings of coercion.

16. When talking about their sexual debut -...
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
A performance orientation.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
to be enrolled in preschool

17. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
The ovaries and the testes.
Prevention science.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Compensation.

18. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Thought processes.
Slower
Flynn effect.
Theory of mind.

19. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Puberty.
Relational aggression
Autobiographical memory.
Uneven and variable

20. Cross-cultural research on the effects of schooling suggests that schooling...
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children

21. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Uterus growth.
Formal operations.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Stage 4

22. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
throw a ball overhand.
The ovaries and the testes.
transductive reasoning
Identification through differentiation

23. Parents who insist that their adolescent dress in a socially appropriate way is operating from the boundaries of ____________; while an adolescent who insists that dress is a matter of personal choice are operating from the boundaries of ____________
. Decoding
Social conventional; personal
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Social and emotional development.

24. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?
Enabling interactions
Homophily.
Agility.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

25. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...
More rigid
Authoritative
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Me-self

26. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Increases; decreases
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
At risk for obesity.
Realistic mathematics education.

27. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...
Socialization.
Prevention science.
. psychodynamic view
Cultural socialization

28. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.
Cultural socialization
slowly
Experience sampling method.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy

29. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Agility.
Creative arts
Microsystem
Need about 8 hours.

30. In terms of sleep - adolescents...
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Need about 8 hours.
Decision making
Increases; decreases

31. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Slower
Prevention science.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children

32. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Decision making
Enabling interactions
Personal distress
Cultural socialization

33. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...
Microsystem
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Neighborhood physical disorder.

34. Which type of aggression are preschool aged girls more likely to engage in than preschool boys?
Conservation.
Relational aggression
Gina - an early-maturing female
Instrumental aggression.

35. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Decoding.
In formal schooling oral instruction is the most common type of instruction while apprenticeship instruction is done through watching and imitating the master's work.

36. The use of meaningful activities - supporting basic skills - and employing mathematical models in the learning of math are components of...
Realistic mathematics education.
support emotion and security needs.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Rehearsal.

37. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
The ovaries and the testes.
The Oedipus complex.
Risky and potentially harmful.
The model does not include a morality of care.

38. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Skipping.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Compensation.

39. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
puberty
Biological maturation.
clique
Multiple intelligences.

40. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
A. more wooden buttons.
Prevention science.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
An entity model of intelligence.

41. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
Spermarche.
Conservation.
Socialization.
positive emotions

42. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
. saturated self.
Not supported by research
More
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence

43. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
A scale error
Compensation.
Masturbation
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

44. 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...
Stage 4
Cultural socialization
positive emotions
Kitchen.

45. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Socialization.
direct instruction - Play
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

46. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

47. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
. children older than seven years of age
Puberty.
A scale error
Confusing appearance and reality.

48. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Interdependence
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Foreclosure.

49. Research on fathers suggests that...
Prosocial behavior
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Emphasize obedience.
The Oedipus complex.

50. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
support emotion and security needs.
Agility.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning