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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
Effortful control.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Formal operations

2. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Specific learning disabilities.
to be enrolled in preschool

3. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Auxiliary hair appears
Authoritarian
Skipping.

4. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
Foreclosure.
Theory theory
At risk for obesity.
Self-regulatory capacity.

5. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
throw a ball overhand.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate

6. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Plan ahead.
Decoding.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.

7. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Kitchen.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Enabling interactions
Emotional climate of family

8. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Enabling interactions
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

9. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Social conventional; personal
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Risky and potentially harmful.

10. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?
Apprenticeship
Uneven and variable
Personality formation
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

11. In terms of sleep - adolescents...
More
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Need about 8 hours.
Internalizing problems.

12. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
Privileged domains.
Apprenticeship
A performance orientation.
Personal and social conventional

13. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
Emerging adulthood.
Auxiliary hair appears
stereotypes
The human papillomavirus.

14. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Postconventional level
to be enrolled in preschool
Decision making
Apprenticeship

15. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
12 to 15 hours
Sociodramatic play.
Increases; decreases

16. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
A performance orientation.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
The model does not include a morality of care.
Personality formation

17. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
Not supported by research
Formal operations
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Emerging adulthood.

18. 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.
support emotion and security needs.
Sociodramatic play
Multiple intelligences.
When parents are not getting along

19. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
Flynn effect.
Dyslexia.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Authoritative

20. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Chlamydia
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Risky and potentially harmful.

21. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Enabling interactions
Egocentrism
The human papillomavirus.

22. Not a risk factor for child abuse?
Metamemory.
. children older than seven years of age
Interdependence
. Decoding

23. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?
Social interaction
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Egocentrism
Creative arts

24. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...
Thought processes.
transductive reasoning
more
Theory theory

25. Which of the following categories of racial socialization messages appears to be associated with stronger cognitive abilities and fewer behavior problems among African-American children?
Microsystem
Higher levels of intelligence
Gay and lesbian parents
Cultural socialization

26. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Socioeconomic status.
At risk for obesity.

27. 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?
Script.
The drawer in the in kitchen
direct instruction - Play
Sensory register

28. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...
Sensory register
Deviancy in adolescence.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
A scale error

29. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Identification through differentiation
Theory of mind.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

30. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
Metamemory.
Sociodramatic play.
Social interaction
Spermarche.

31. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Elaboration.
The ovaries and the testes.
Conservation.

32. Authoritative parents are...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Plan ahead.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.

33. Cross-cultural research on the effects of schooling suggests that schooling...
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Decision making

34. 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...
Motor drive
Confusing appearance and reality.
Conservation.
Sensory register

35. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Identification.
Sociodramatic play.
Agility.

36. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...
Violence
Instrumental aggression.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
. Decoding

37. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Emotional climate of family
Genetic and environmental factors.

38. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Empathy
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

39. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
Microsystem
An entity model of intelligence.
Identification through differentiation
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

40. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
Having extended family involved in their lives.
When parents are not getting along
Conservation.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.

41. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Formal operations.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Creative arts
More

42. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Disciplinarian
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Emphasize obedience.

43. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Empathy

44. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
Gina - an early-maturing female
support emotion and security needs.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.

45. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...
Specific learning disabilities.
The model does not include a morality of care.
Social conventional; personal
Socialization.

46. Research on the use of interactive media suggests that boys who play computer games often spend _________ time with their friends outside of school than boys who spend little to no time playing on the computer.
more
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Moratorium
The drawer in the in kitchen

47. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.
slowly
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Sociodramatic play.
Decision making

48. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
Foreclosure.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Neighborhood physical disorder.

49. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
Need about 8 hours.
Piaget
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Identity formation

50. 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.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Increases
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
. saturated self.