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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

2. 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?
Theory theory
slowly
The ovaries and the testes.
Cultural socialization

3. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...
Egocentrism
Sociodramatic play.
Uterus growth.
clique

4. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Identification through differentiation
Compensation.
Gay and lesbian parents

5. According to Piaget -...
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Socialization.
to be enrolled in preschool
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.

6. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
Auxiliary hair appears
to be enrolled in preschool
Not supported by research
Me-self

7. Alfred Binet is known for creating...
Decision making
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
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.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.

8. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Instrumental aggression.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Masturbation

9. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
Conservation.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
. saturated self.
Transductivity.

10. 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...
Compensation.
Interdependence
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Differential reinforcement

11. 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
Improvement in social status
Autobiographical memory.
Identity assumption

12. The use of meaningful activities - supporting basic skills - and employing mathematical models in the learning of math are components of...
. psychodynamic view
The ovaries and the testes.
Privileged domains.
Realistic mathematics education.

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

14. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
Effortful control.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy

15. Not a risk factor for child abuse?
. children older than seven years of age
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
support emotion and security needs.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

16. 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?
Conservation.
Personal and social conventional
Emotional climate of family
Relational aggression

17. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?
Apprenticeship
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Emerging adulthood.
. children older than seven years of age

18. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Disciplinarian
Formal operations
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

19. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Stage 4
Need about 8 hours.
Masturbation

20. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
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
puberty

21. 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...
Social conventional; personal
Auxiliary hair appears
Experience sampling method.
Prevention science.

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

23. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
. the social goal
More

24. In which stage of forming a sexual minority development would an individual who has had homosexual experiences and recognizes that they prefer sexual relations with members of their own sex but do not openly acknowledge their preference be?
Conservation.
Chlamydia
Identification through differentiation
Identity assumption

25. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
Compensation.
Piaget
Improvement in social status
Prevention science.

26. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
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.
Specific learning disabilities.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.

27. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
An entity model of intelligence.
Deviancy in adolescence.

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

29. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Experience sampling method.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Me-self

30. A child sharing her apple slice with another child is an example of...
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Prosocial behavior
support emotion and security needs.

31. 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.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Increases
Metamemory.
An entity model of intelligence.

32. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Rehearsal.
Decision making
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

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?
Postconventional level
Conservation.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Theory theory

34. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
Deviancy in adolescence.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Uterus growth.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.

35. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
Differential reinforcement
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
transductive reasoning
positive emotions

36. 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.
Socioeconomic status.
A performance orientation.
Sociodramatic play
Moratorium

37. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
Identification through differentiation
Uterus growth.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Internalizing problems.

38. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...
Social and emotional development.
Cultural socialization
Exosystem.
support emotion and security needs.

39. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Flynn effect.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Uterus growth.

40. Research on fathers suggests that...
Creative arts
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Social intelligence.
Chlamydia

41. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...
Differential reinforcement
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Instrumental aggression.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence

42. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...
Deviancy in adolescence.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.

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

44. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
Cultural socialization
Effortful control.
Chlamydia
Self-regulatory capacity.

45. Adolescent ethnic identity formation is not strong when...
Dyslexia.
to be enrolled in preschool
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

46. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Agility.
Theory of mind.
Authoritarian
Enabling interactions

47. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...
transductive reasoning
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Socialization.
Genetic and environmental factors.

48. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...
School-cutoff strategy.
Identity assumption
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Metamemory.

49. When talking about their sexual debut -...
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Flynn effect.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Specific learning disabilities.

50. Which type of aggression are preschool aged girls more likely to engage in than preschool boys?
Relational aggression
Agility.
An entity model of intelligence.
Transductivity.