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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
stereotypes
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Biological maturation.
Chlamydia

2. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

3. The use of meaningful activities - supporting basic skills - and employing mathematical models in the learning of math are components of...
Independent.
Realistic mathematics education.
Compensation.
Having extended family involved in their lives.

4. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...
Emphasize obedience.
Plan ahead.
Dyslexia.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.

5. __________ can be characterized as a form of activity that is intermediate between the implicit socialization of everyday family life and the explicit teaching of formal education.
Masturbation
Increases
Apprenticeship
. saturated self.

6. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Uneven and variable
Interdependence
Biological maturation.
Relational aggression

7. 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 ____________
Flynn effect.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Social conventional; personal

8. The term gonads refers to...
The ovaries and the testes.
Sociodramatic play.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

9. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
When parents are not getting along
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Metamemory.

10. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
Biological maturation.
A scale error
Identification.
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.

11. Authoritarian
Social and emotional development.
Slower
Sociodramatic play
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.

12. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
A performance orientation.

13. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Emerging adulthood.

14. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

15. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
Homophily.
Rehearsal.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.

16. 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.
Empathy
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Identity assumption

17. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Financial recession.
more
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

18. Cross-cultural research on the effects of schooling suggests that schooling...
Sociodramatic play
. Decoding
Conservation.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.

19. Which type of aggression are preschool aged girls more likely to engage in than preschool boys?
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Relational aggression
Sociodramatic play

20. 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...
The human papillomavirus.
Compensation.
A. more wooden buttons.
Increases

21. 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?
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Personal and social conventional

22. Various studies of the influence of television violence on children's behavior have found...
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Apprenticeship
Masturbation
Biological maturation.

23. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?
Formal operations
Internalizing problems.
Gina - an early-maturing female
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.

24. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
Script.
positive emotions
Self-regulatory capacity.
Authoritative

25. Authoritative parents are...
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
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.
Enabling interactions

26. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.
transductive reasoning
Mental operations.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Increases

27. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
Improvement in social status
controlling conflict within a social group.
Flynn effect.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.

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

29. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Sociodramatic play.
Thought processes.
An entity model of intelligence.

30. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Decision making
Kitchen.

31. Children adopting an entity theory of intelligence are more likely than others to...

32. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
Social conventional; personal
The drawer in the in kitchen
Prevention science.
Dyslexia.

33. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
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
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
stereotypes
Flynn effect.

34. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
Formal operations
. psychodynamic view
A scale error
Confusing appearance and reality.

35. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
Effortful control.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
A performance orientation.
Deviancy in adolescence.

36. In the reciprocal-teaching approach...
Decision making
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Enabling interactions

37. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
The Oedipus complex.
Not supported by research

38. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Disciplinarian
Theory theory
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.

39. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
Moratorium
Risky and potentially harmful.
Multiple intelligences.
Script.

40. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
Dyslexia.
Microsystem
puberty
Internalizing problems.

41. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
Identification through differentiation
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.

42. Borke's replication of Piaget and Inhelder's three-mountain experiment in which children were presented with a Sesame Street character that drove around familiar landmarks demonstrated that three- and four-year-old children are capable of...
Identity integration
Motor drive
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.

43. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Prosocial behavior
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.

44. According to information-processing approach to cognitive development - before stimulation from the environment (or 'input') can be stored in either short-term memory or long-term memory - it must pass through the...
Sensory register
More rigid
Violence
Social intelligence.

45. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
to be enrolled in preschool
. saturated self.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
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

46. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
An infusion of pubertal hormones
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'

47. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Instrumental aggression.
direct instruction - Play
Chlamydia
Interdependence

48. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Flynn effect.
Effortful control.
Autobiographical memory.
Puberty.

49. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Rehearsal.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Puberty.

50. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Social intelligence.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.