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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...
controlling conflict within a social group.
School-cutoff strategy.
Internalizing problems.
Personal distress

2. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...
Personality formation
More
direct instruction - Play
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.

3. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
positive emotions
. Decoding
more

4. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

5. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
Compensation.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Confusing appearance and reality.
Theory of mind.

6. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
More
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Spermarche.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children

7. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Internalizing problems.
Increases; decreases
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Identity assumption

8. 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...
puberty
Sociodramatic play.
controlling conflict within a social group.
A. more wooden buttons.

9. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
Socioeconomic status.
Exosystem.
Not supported by research
Higher levels of intelligence

10. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
Increases; decreases
Piaget
Emphasize obedience.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks

11. Authoritative parents are...
More
School-cutoff strategy.
The survival goal.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children

12. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
. Decoding
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Empathy

13. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Decoding.
Compensation.
Microsystem

14. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Need about 8 hours.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Relational aggression

15. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
. psychodynamic view
Creative arts
Differential reinforcement

16. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
An entity model of intelligence.
Formal operations
Plan ahead.

17. A child sharing her apple slice with another child is an example of...
Prosocial behavior
slowly
Puberty.
transductive reasoning

18. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
More rigid
Auxiliary hair appears
Puberty.

19. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits
Social and emotional development.
. Decoding
Me-self
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

20. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Internalizing problems.
puberty

21. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
Rehearsal.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

22. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Identity formation
Slower
. the social goal
Social and emotional development.

23. When talking about their sexual debut -...
Decision making
Transductivity.
Spermarche.
Girls report feelings of coercion.

24. 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...
Identity assumption
The drawer in the in kitchen
Experience sampling method.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.

25. 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...
Exosystem.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
12 to 15 hours

26. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
The human papillomavirus.

27. 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...
Violence
Conservation.
Instrumental aggression.
Stage 4

28. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
Creative arts
Conservation.
Agility.
puberty

29. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...
Self-regulatory capacity.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
positive emotions
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.

30. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...
Sociodramatic play.
Instrumental aggression.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Plan ahead.

31. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Puberty.
Uneven and variable
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.

32. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Identification through differentiation
An infusion of pubertal hormones

33. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.
Social intelligence.
An entity model of intelligence.
slowly
Financial recession.

34. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...
Formal operations.
Puberty.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Deviancy in adolescence.

35. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Sociodramatic play.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

36. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.
A scale error
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
Personality formation
Prevention science.

37. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Authoritative

38. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...
Need about 8 hours.
Formal operations
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
throw a ball overhand.

39. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Dyslexia.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.

40. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Personal distress
Cultural socialization
Authoritative
Privileged domains.

41. By helping children to recall and interpret events in which they have participated - adults help children acquire an enduring sense of themselves by creating a sort of personal narrative - referred to as the child's...
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Autobiographical memory.
Identification through differentiation
Identification.

42. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.
Authoritarian
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Gay and lesbian parents
positive emotions

43. In the reciprocal-teaching approach...
Theory of mind.
Sociodramatic play.
The Oedipus complex.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.

44. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?
Social interaction
Disciplinarian
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

45. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Internalizing problems.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Decision making
stereotypes

46. A male's first ejaculation is called...
Spermarche.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Uterus growth.
to be enrolled in preschool

47. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
slowly
At risk for obesity.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Identification.

48. 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.
Effortful control.
Relational aggression
transductive reasoning
more

49. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
Transductivity.
Auxiliary hair appears
Effortful control.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.

50. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
direct instruction - Play
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.