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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
Uneven and variable
Identification through differentiation
Identity assumption
Internalizing problems.

2. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...
Homophily.
12 to 15 hours
Metamemory.
Internalizing problems.

3. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Emphasize obedience.
transductive reasoning

4. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Slower
Privileged domains.
The model does not include a morality of care.
Girls report feelings of coercion.

5. 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...
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Formal operations.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Compensation.

6. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Emphasize obedience.
Masturbation
Elaboration.

7. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...
Apprenticeship
. the social goal
Financial recession.
Differential reinforcement

8. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
stereotypes
Apprenticeship
Social conventional; personal
More

9. The extent to which friends are similar to one another is referred to as...
throw a ball overhand.
Script.
Homophily.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.

10. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
Relational aggression
Authoritarian
Increases
Social intelligence.

11. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Decoding.
direct instruction - Play
Flynn effect.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.

12. When it comes to television - children between the ages of 4 and 5...

13. Not a risk factor for child abuse?
Relational aggression
. children older than seven years of age
Enabling interactions
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

14. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.
A scale error
Multiple intelligences.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Decreases; remains the same

15. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Decrease in efficiency
Not supported by research
Realistic mathematics education.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.

16. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
. psychodynamic view
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Risky and potentially harmful.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other

17. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...
Risky and potentially harmful.
Improvement in social status
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Autobiographical memory.

18. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Auxiliary hair appears
When parents are not getting along

19. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Privileged domains.
In addition to cognitive structures - gender schema theory uses culture to explain sex-role identity development - Gender schema theory often uses an information-processing approach to describe how the cognitive and learning elements of the system wo
Empathy

20. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.
Piaget
Apprenticeship
Risky and potentially harmful.
Authoritative

21. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Microsystem
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Decreases; remains the same
Self-regulatory capacity.

22. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
A scale error
Moratorium
Uneven and variable
. Decoding

23. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Me-self
Biological maturation.
Authoritative
Authoritarian

24. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.
Authoritarian
Kitchen.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.

25. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Personal distress
Foreclosure.
support emotion and security needs.
controlling conflict within a social group.

26. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Conservation.
Egocentrism
Thought processes.

27. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Cultural socialization
Emphasize obedience.

28. Research on parent-adolescent relationships suggests that a great deal of conflict arises because of differences in opinion about the boundaries between which two social domains?
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Metamemory.
Personal and social conventional

29. By helping children to recall and interpret events in which they have participated - adults help children acquire an enduring sense of themselves by creating a sort of personal narrative - referred to as the child's...
Self-regulatory capacity.
A. more wooden buttons.
Autobiographical memory.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children

30. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...
throw a ball overhand.
Differential reinforcement
Gay and lesbian parents
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.

31. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
Dyslexia.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Moratorium
Girls report feelings of coercion.

32. 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...
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Conservation.
Creative arts
Gina - an early-maturing female

33. 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.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Socioeconomic status.
Increases
Emerging adulthood.

34. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
The human papillomavirus.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
12 to 15 hours
Not supported by research

35. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.
. the social goal
slowly
Formal operations.
Biological maturation.

36. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
. psychodynamic view
Flynn effect.
Decrease in efficiency
support emotion and security needs.

37. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Motor drive
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
More rigid
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.

38. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Autobiographical memory.
Prosocial behavior
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.

39. 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
The drawer in the in kitchen
Need about 8 hours.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

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

41. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
Transductivity.
Effortful control.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
. children older than seven years of age

42. In Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning - at which level does reasoning require people to go beyond the existing social conventions to consider more abstract principles of right and wrong?
Postconventional level
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Sociodramatic play
. children older than seven years of age

43. 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
Compensation.
support emotion and security needs.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Sensory register

44. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
Effortful control.
A. more wooden buttons.
More rigid
Girls report feelings of coercion.

45. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Biological maturation.
Sociodramatic play
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Inability to categorize objects

46. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
Internalizing problems.
Stage 4
Social interaction
Prevention science.

47. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...
Skipping.
Reciprocal teaching.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Need about 8 hours.

48. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Interdependence
Specific learning disabilities.

49. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...
An entity model of intelligence.
Plan ahead.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.

50. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
direct instruction - Play
Internalizing problems.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.