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Human Development - HDFC

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1. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
A scale error
Compensation.
Puberty.
Personality formation

2. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
The Oedipus complex.
Postconventional level
Me-self
Slower

3. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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4. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
Social intelligence.
throw a ball overhand.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

5. having extended family involved in their lives.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
The survival goal.
Formal operations.

6. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Emotional climate of family
The human papillomavirus.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Creative arts

7. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
An entity model of intelligence.
Interdependence
Not supported by research

8. A primary sex characteristic...
Uterus growth.
Auxiliary hair appears
throw a ball overhand.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.

9. Various studies of the influence of television violence on children's behavior have found...
Need about 8 hours.
Foreclosure.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
12 to 15 hours

10. 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.
Prosocial behavior
Empathy
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.

11. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.

12. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
direct instruction - Play
. the social goal
Not supported by research
. Decoding

13. 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...
Gina - an early-maturing female
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
The ovaries and the testes.
Conservation.

14. Not a way schooling differs from traditional apprenticeship training?

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15. A child's ability to recognize that two rows of pennies each with the same number of pennies have the same number of pennies when one row of pennies is longer than the other is called...
. saturated self.
Slower
Conservation.
Privileged domains.

16. When talking about their sexual debut -...
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Prosocial behavior

17. Which approach does the idea that theory of mind develops from primitive theories of how the world works that are present at birth and modified through experience in the world follow?
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Theory theory
Dyslexia.

18. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?
puberty
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Mental operations.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking

19. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...
Neighborhood physical disorder.
to be enrolled in preschool
Specific learning disabilities.
Sociodramatic play.

20. Not a protective factor
Theory theory
The ovaries and the testes.
Decoding.
Financial recession.

21. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
Social conventional; personal
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Spermarche.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.

22. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Moratorium
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
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

23. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
Slower
Authoritarian
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
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.

24. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
. psychodynamic view
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Stage 4

25. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Personal distress
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Biological maturation.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

26. 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...
support emotion and security needs.
Kitchen.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
An entity model of intelligence.

27. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
clique
Chlamydia
Computer.
12 to 15 hours

28. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
Apprenticeship
Formal operations
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Theory theory

29. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?
Financial recession.
Gina - an early-maturing female
. Decoding
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.

30. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...
Dyslexia.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Spermarche.
Thought processes.

31. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
Deviancy in adolescence.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Moratorium
Masturbation

32. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Empathy
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Enabling interactions
At risk for obesity.

33. In Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning - at which level does reasoning require people to go beyond the existing social conventions to consider more abstract principles of right and wrong?
Autobiographical memory.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Postconventional level
Compensation.

34. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
Privileged domains.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
support emotion and security needs.
Identification through differentiation

35. According to Piaget -...
Biological maturation.
. Decoding
Microsystem
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.

36. The school-cutoff strategy helps researchers to...

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37. 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.
Microsystem
The drawer in the in kitchen
More rigid
Sociodramatic play

38. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
Increases
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
. Decoding
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.

39. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
controlling conflict within a social group.
Internalizing problems.
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.
Emotional climate of family

40. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Privileged domains.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.

41. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
A performance orientation.
Multiple intelligences.
Gay and lesbian parents
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks

42. Alfred Binet is known for creating...
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
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
Decoding.

43. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
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.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
positive emotions
controlling conflict within a social group.

44. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
Microsystem
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Flynn effect.
Formal operations.

45. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Conservation.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Identification.

46. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
Specific learning disabilities.
Theory of mind.
Chlamydia
A. more wooden buttons.

47. Studies comparing schooled and nonschooled students have demonstrated that...
Interdependence
Formal operations
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking

48. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
When parents are not getting along
Uterus growth.
Confusing appearance and reality.
More

49. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
direct instruction - Play
The Oedipus complex.
Decoding.

50. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
Prosocial behavior
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Prevention science.
Sensory register