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Human Development - HDFC

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1. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
Risky and potentially harmful.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Disciplinarian
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.

2. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Slower
Exosystem.
Gay and lesbian parents

3. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
A scale error
Decoding.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
stereotypes

4. 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.
Reciprocal teaching.
Relational aggression
controlling conflict within a social group.

5. 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...
Financial recession.
Gay and lesbian parents
Social interaction
Kitchen.

6. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
The survival goal.
Dyslexia.
Gina - an early-maturing female

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

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8. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
Personality formation
Formal operations
clique
Relational aggression

9. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.
transductive reasoning
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Creative arts
Experience sampling method.

10. When talking about their sexual debut -...
Compensation.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Motor drive

11. 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...
Autobiographical memory.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Conservation.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.

12. 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?
Multiple intelligences.
Mental operations.
Thought processes.
Postconventional level

13. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Chlamydia
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Financial recession.
Theory theory

14. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits
Me-self
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
to be enrolled in preschool

15. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Risky and potentially harmful.
More rigid
Creative arts
Relational aggression

16. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Confusing appearance and reality.
Multiple intelligences.
Thought processes.
Sociodramatic play

17. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.
Authoritative
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Sociodramatic play.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.

18. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
to be enrolled in preschool
Deviancy in adolescence.
positive emotions
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

19. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
Social conventional; personal
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.

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

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21. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Thought processes.
Internalizing problems.

22. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
controlling conflict within a social group.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
An entity model of intelligence.

23. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Personal and social conventional
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Formal operations

24. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...
Cultural socialization
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Foreclosure.
Differential reinforcement

25. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...
Internalizing problems.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Thought processes.
clique

26. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
Cultural socialization
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Effortful control.

27. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?
Decision making
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.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
. the social goal

28. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Disciplinarian
Not supported by research
Social intelligence.

29. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Confusing appearance and reality.
Decreases; remains the same
The ovaries and the testes.

30. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
Interdependence
Slower
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Kitchen.

31. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
Uterus growth.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Agility.

32. NOT characteristic of school problems?
Decreases; remains the same
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
School-cutoff strategy.

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

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34. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Motor drive
Privileged domains.

35. 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?
Uterus growth.
Identity integration
Mental operations.
Empathy

36. 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 ____________
Emerging adulthood.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Slower
Social conventional; personal

37. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
At risk for obesity.
Biological maturation.
Social intelligence.

38. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Kitchen.
Increases; decreases

39. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...
Effortful control.
. Decoding
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Socioeconomic status.

40. Cross-cultural research on the effects of schooling suggests that schooling...
more
Social and emotional development.
Personality formation
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.

41. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Differential reinforcement
Flynn effect.
direct instruction - Play
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

42. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
Experience sampling method.
The Oedipus complex.
Cultural socialization
throw a ball overhand.

43. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Piaget
Metamemory.
Uneven and variable

44. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...
Plan ahead.
Personal and social conventional
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Experience sampling method.

45. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Compensation.
Personal distress
At risk for obesity.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

46. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Creative arts
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

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

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48. 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
Biological maturation.
Multiple intelligences.
The drawer in the in kitchen
More rigid

49. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
12 to 15 hours
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.

50. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.
The Oedipus complex.
Authoritarian
Emphasize obedience.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children