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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
Flynn effect.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Deviancy in adolescence.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.

2. 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...
Kitchen.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Experience sampling method.
Instrumental aggression.

3. Alfred Binet is known for creating...
Auxiliary hair appears
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Elaboration.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

4. NOT characteristic of school problems?
Specific learning disabilities.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Egocentrism
Creative arts

5. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Foreclosure.
Mental operations.
More
Gay and lesbian parents

6. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?
. saturated self.
Socioeconomic status.
. the social goal
positive emotions

7. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
When parents are not getting along
Increases
Need about 8 hours.

8. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Authoritarian
stereotypes

9. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...
Authoritarian
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Formal operations

10. 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?
Cultural socialization
Formal operations.
more
clique

11. A child reasons that the change in the level of a quantity of liquid brought about by pouring it from a short - wide beaker to a tall - narrow beaker is not caused by a change in the amount of the liquid - but by the fact that the taller beaker is al
more
Compensation.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'

12. 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.
Creative arts
Auxiliary hair appears
Increases
Privileged domains.

13. 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...
Identity formation
Compensation.
Autobiographical memory.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.

14. 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...
direct instruction - Play
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Slower
Apprenticeship

15. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
Microsystem
Formal operations
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Socialization.

16. __________ 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.
Apprenticeship
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Conservation.

17. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
. saturated self.
Internalizing problems.
Confusing appearance and reality.

18. 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.
controlling conflict within a social group.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Sensory register

19. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?
Flynn effect.
Socialization.
Differential reinforcement
Improvement in social status

20. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
stereotypes
puberty
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Identification.

21. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Socialization.
Formal operations.
Me-self

22. Authoritative parents are...
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Sociodramatic play

23. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Biological maturation.
Increases; decreases
Thought processes.
Authoritarian

24. 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
Emotional climate of family
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Social and emotional development.

25. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Emotional climate of family
Flynn effect.
The survival goal.
Multiple intelligences.

26. 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
. Decoding
Cultural socialization
Conservation.

27. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

28. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
Not supported by research
Disciplinarian
Independent.
Rehearsal.

29. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Interdependence
The Oedipus complex.
Gina - an early-maturing female

30. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
Social intelligence.
A performance orientation.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Identification through differentiation

31. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
Decoding.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
A scale error
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.

32. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Stage 4
Prevention science.
The model does not include a morality of care.
Independent.

33. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Me-self
Kitchen.
Decrease in efficiency
Internalizing problems.

34. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Compensation.
Puberty.
Chlamydia

35. 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...
Kitchen.
Decreases; remains the same
Relational aggression
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.

36. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
Thought processes.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Improvement in social status
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.

37. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
. Decoding
Dyslexia.
Sensory register

38. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
to be enrolled in preschool
Self-regulatory capacity.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.

39. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Thought processes.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Authoritative

40. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
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.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Compensation.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

41. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Differential reinforcement
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Chlamydia
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.

42. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Formal operations.
positive emotions
A performance orientation.
School-cutoff strategy.

43. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
stereotypes
Slower
When parents are not getting along
Auxiliary hair appears

44. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Prevention science.
Prosocial behavior
Socialization.

45. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...
Specific learning disabilities.
The model does not include a morality of care.
Thought processes.
The human papillomavirus.

46. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Cultural socialization
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Risky and potentially harmful.

47. Not a protective factor
Dyslexia.
Financial recession.
Personal and social conventional
Not supported by research

48. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...
Social conventional; personal
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Masturbation
Plan ahead.

49. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?
The ovaries and the testes.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Transductivity.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

50. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
Egocentrism
Disciplinarian
Uterus growth.
Self-regulatory capacity.