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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The school-cutoff strategy helps researchers to...

2. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

3. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Increases; decreases
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Reciprocal teaching.
Interdependence

4. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
Social interaction
Elaboration.
slowly
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.

5. 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.
more
Increases; decreases
Privileged domains.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.

6. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Reciprocal teaching.
Script.
Independent.
Identification through differentiation

7. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
The drawer in the in kitchen
12 to 15 hours
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Slower

8. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
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
stereotypes
Emotional climate of family
Piaget

9. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
Identity integration
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Confusing appearance and reality.
Not supported by research

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

11. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Moratorium
Biological maturation.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Higher levels of intelligence

12. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Financial recession.
. saturated self.
Increases

13. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
A performance orientation.
Masturbation
Agility.
Rehearsal.

14. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

15. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.
Theory theory
Formal operations.
Egocentrism
transductive reasoning

16. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Creative arts
Violence

17. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Skipping.
Chlamydia
Gay and lesbian parents
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.

18. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
. Decoding
Empathy
Agility.
Compensation.

19. 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...
The Oedipus complex.
Emerging adulthood.
Personality formation
Sociodramatic play

20. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Flynn effect.

21. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
Empathy
A performance orientation.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Enabling interactions

22. 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...
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Reciprocal teaching.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
The survival goal.

23. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Computer.
support emotion and security needs.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

24. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...
. children older than seven years of age
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Skipping.
Postconventional level

25. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Prosocial behavior
Internalizing problems.
Motor drive
Puberty.

26. 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.
Decrease in efficiency
Puberty.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Sociodramatic play

27. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?
Realistic mathematics education.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Disciplinarian
transductive reasoning

28. If a 5-year-old watches a little girl put a piece of candy into a drawer in the kitchen and then watches the girl's mother move the piece of candy to the refrigerator without the little girl knowing - where will the 5-year-old say the little girl wil
Compensation.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Genetic and environmental factors.
Multiple intelligences.

29. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
clique
Identification through differentiation
Increases; decreases
Need about 8 hours.

30. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...
Realistic mathematics education.
Exosystem.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Social intelligence.

31. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.
Decreases; remains the same
A performance orientation.
Independent.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.

32. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Decision making
Social intelligence.
Prevention science.
Internalizing problems.

33. 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?
Gina - an early-maturing female
direct instruction - Play
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.

34. Which of the following statements about children's experience with interactive media is NOT true?

35. Alfred Binet is known for creating...
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.

36. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Apprenticeship

37. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Creative arts
Biological maturation.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

38. How many hours of sleep in a 24-hour period should a child between the ages of 2 and 5 get?
Increases; decreases
12 to 15 hours
At risk for obesity.
Elaboration.

39. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.
Kitchen.
Emerging adulthood.
Authoritarian
throw a ball overhand.

40. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation
Theory theory
Decoding.
Prevention science.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

41. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Chlamydia
Social intelligence.
Confusing appearance and reality.

42. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
At risk for obesity.
Autobiographical memory.

43. Which view of moral development suggests that children acquire a sense of What is right and wrong from internalizing the moral standards of their parents?
clique
. psychodynamic view
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.

44. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Conservation.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.

45. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
transductive reasoning
. children older than seven years of age
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
throw a ball overhand.

46. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Privileged domains.
Socialization.

47. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?
When parents are not getting along
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Prosocial behavior
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.

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

49. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Thought processes.
positive emotions
Formal operations

50. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
Realistic mathematics education.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.