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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
Prevention science.
12 to 15 hours
Realistic mathematics education.
Puberty.

2. having extended family involved in their lives.
The survival goal.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Interdependence

3. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
Motor drive
Genetic and environmental factors.
Creative arts
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.

4. How many hours of sleep in a 24-hour period should a child between the ages of 2 and 5 get?
Stage 4
Elaboration.
Confusing appearance and reality.
12 to 15 hours

5. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
Stage 4
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
When parents are not getting along
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.

6. __________ 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.
Internalizing problems.
Apprenticeship
throw a ball overhand.
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.

7. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
Deviancy in adolescence.
. saturated self.
Decision making
Conservation.

8. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
Improvement in social status
An entity model of intelligence.
Differential reinforcement
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.

9. The fear - guilt - and conflict stirred up by a boy's desire to kill his father and live with his mother taking his father's place is known as...
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
The Oedipus complex.
Script.
Homophily.

10. Research on fathers suggests that...
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Improvement in social status
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.

11. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Identity formation
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Decrease in efficiency
Authoritative

12. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?
Dyslexia.
Egocentrism
Reciprocal teaching.
transductive reasoning

13. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
When parents are not getting along
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.
Thought processes.
A scale error

14. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?
Improvement in social status
A. more wooden buttons.
Stage 4
A scale error

15. Which type of aggression are preschool aged girls more likely to engage in than preschool boys?
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Relational aggression
Authoritarian
Cultural socialization

16. 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
Theory of mind.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Increases; decreases

17. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
Internalizing problems.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
. Decoding
Gina - an early-maturing female

18. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Financial recession.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

19. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
. Decoding
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
throw a ball overhand.
At risk for obesity.

20. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Personal and social conventional
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.

21. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.
Exosystem.
transductive reasoning
Me-self
Spermarche.

22. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Spermarche.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
The Oedipus complex.

23. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
Socioeconomic status.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
The human papillomavirus.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.

24. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
positive emotions
Chlamydia
Dyslexia.

25. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Gina - an early-maturing female

26. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.
Sensory register
Authoritarian
Social interaction
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.

27. The use of meaningful activities - supporting basic skills - and employing mathematical models in the learning of math are components of...
Decrease in efficiency
Realistic mathematics education.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
More rigid

28. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
More
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.

29. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Plan ahead.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.

30. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Uterus growth.
to be enrolled in preschool
Instrumental aggression.

31. 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?
direct instruction - Play
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Formal operations
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

32. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?
Identification.
The human papillomavirus.
. the social goal
Decision making

33. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
A. more wooden buttons.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Cultural socialization
clique

34. According to Piaget -...
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Sensory register
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'

35. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Biological maturation.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Personal distress
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.

36. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Foreclosure.
controlling conflict within a social group.
Increases; decreases
Identity formation

37. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Identity integration
Personal and social conventional
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.

38. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...
Foreclosure.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Plan ahead.
Computer.

39. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Differential reinforcement
Effortful control.
. saturated self.

40. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Agility.
Prevention science.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.

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

42. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Puberty.
More rigid
Mental operations.

43. The term gonads refers to...
The ovaries and the testes.
more
Foreclosure.
Skipping.

44. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Specific learning disabilities.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

45. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
slowly
Increases; decreases

46. Which of the following statements about the development of the brain during early childhood is TRUE?

47. When talking about their sexual debut -...
Gay and lesbian parents
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Skipping.
The drawer in the in kitchen

48. 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...
Empathy
Sensory register
Reciprocal teaching.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

49. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Risky and potentially harmful.
More
Mental operations.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning

50. 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 ____________
direct instruction - Play
Social conventional; personal
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
At risk for obesity.