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Human Development - HDFC

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1. How many hours of sleep in a 24-hour period should a child between the ages of 2 and 5 get?






2. On average - boys are not better than girls at...






3. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?






4. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.






5. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.






6. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?






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

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8. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...






9. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...






10. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...






11. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.






12. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.






13. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...






14. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...






15. Cross-cultural studies of concrete operations demonstrate that...

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16. Similarity between friends can contribute to...






17. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?






18. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.






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






20. Authoritative parents are...






21. The term gonads refers to...






22. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.






23. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?






24. 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?






25. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...






26. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?






27. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.






28. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?






29. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?






30. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...






31. Authoritarian






32. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...






33. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.






34. 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?






35. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...






36. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.






37. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?






38. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?






39. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?






40. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.






41. 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 ____________






42. Studies of poor families suggest that such factors as stress - the dangerous circumstances of daily life in poor areas - and the nature of parents' jobs tend to cause poor parents to...






43. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?






44. 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






45. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.






46. 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...






47. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...






48. Various studies of the influence of television violence on children's behavior have found...






49. having extended family involved in their lives.






50. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...