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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...
Rehearsal.
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.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence

2. 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...
Internalizing problems.
Compensation.
Prosocial behavior
Social and emotional development.

3. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Rehearsal.
Differential reinforcement
Me-self

4. 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...
Experience sampling method.
direct instruction - Play
transductive reasoning
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

5. 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...
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Rehearsal.
Dyslexia.
Autobiographical memory.

6. Research on young children demonstrates that high levels of ______________ measured at the beginning of a year is associated with high levels of self-regulation when measured later in the same year.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
clique
Sociodramatic play
Violence

7. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Slower

8. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
At risk for obesity.
Privileged domains.
A scale error
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.

9. Not a risk factor for child abuse?
Uneven and variable
Gay and lesbian parents
Identification.
. children older than seven years of age

10. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?
Empathy
Auxiliary hair appears
clique
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

11. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Prosocial behavior
Culture-sensitive instruction.

12. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
Me-self
Transductivity.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Inability to categorize objects

13. The use of meaningful activities - supporting basic skills - and employing mathematical models in the learning of math are components of...
Realistic mathematics education.
Personal and social conventional
Plan ahead.
. children older than seven years of age

14. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...
Deviancy in adolescence.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Sociodramatic play.
Neighborhood physical disorder.

15. In the reciprocal-teaching approach...
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Foreclosure.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.

16. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
Sociodramatic play
Conservation.
Cultural socialization
Deviancy in adolescence.

17. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
When parents are not getting along
Confusing appearance and reality.
Culture-sensitive instruction.

18. A primary sex characteristic...
An entity model of intelligence.
Piaget
Uterus growth.
The human papillomavirus.

19. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Identity assumption
Formal operations.
Increases
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

20. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Conservation.
Me-self
Identification.
Transductivity.

21. Five-year-old Jacob is playing with his grandmother's buttons. He counts eight wooden buttons and three plastic buttons. When his grandmother asks Jacob if he has more wooden buttons or more buttons - he will most likely indicate that there are...
puberty
An entity model of intelligence.
A. more wooden buttons.
to be enrolled in preschool

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

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23. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
Increases; decreases
Social interaction
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Not supported by research

24. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...
puberty
Instrumental aggression.
Computer.
Flynn effect.

25. 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
positive emotions
throw a ball overhand.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Emerging adulthood.

26. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
Mental operations.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
A performance orientation.

27. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
Masturbation
Effortful control.
Mental operations.
Gina - an early-maturing female

28. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Decreases; remains the same
Conservation.
Increases; decreases

29. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Chlamydia
Cultural socialization
Authoritative
Decision making

30. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...
Foreclosure.
Relational aggression
School-cutoff strategy.
Decoding.

31. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
stereotypes
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Metamemory.
More rigid

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

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33. The extent to which friends are similar to one another is referred to as...
Homophily.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Chlamydia
. the social goal

34. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...
Script.
Piaget
Socialization.
Postconventional level

35. 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...
Emerging adulthood.
Emphasize obedience.
Conservation.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.

36. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
Empathy
Multiple intelligences.
The model does not include a morality of care.
Decision making

37. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
A. more wooden buttons.
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

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

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39. Studies comparing schooled and nonschooled students have demonstrated that...
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.

40. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
Gay and lesbian parents
Emerging adulthood.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Moratorium

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

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42. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Increases
Decoding.
Creative arts
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.

43. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Flynn effect.
Interdependence
Kitchen.
Metamemory.

44. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?
Script.
Improvement in social status
Mental operations.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

45. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...
Skipping.
Emotional climate of family
A performance orientation.
Social interaction

46. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...
Differential reinforcement
Not supported by research
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Personal and social conventional

47. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
Not supported by research
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
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.

48. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Formal operations
transductive reasoning

49. A teacher and a small group of students read silently through segments of text and take turns leading discussion of their meaning. This is an example of...
transductive reasoning
The Oedipus complex.
Transductivity.
Reciprocal teaching.

50. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...
Financial recession.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Exosystem.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.