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Human Development - HDFC

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1. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Auxiliary hair appears
Formal operations.
Postconventional level
Relational aggression

2. The term gonads refers to...
Empathy
slowly
The ovaries and the testes.
Masturbation

3. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
Not supported by research
Authoritative
support emotion and security needs.
The Oedipus complex.

4. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?
The Oedipus complex.
clique
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Egocentrism

5. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Independent.
Theory of mind.
. the social goal
Creative arts

6. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
A scale error
. Decoding
Moratorium
Thought processes.

7. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
puberty
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Decision making

8. 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?
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Sensory register
Apprenticeship
Postconventional level

9. 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...
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Autobiographical memory.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.

10. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
to be enrolled in preschool
Realistic mathematics education.
Internalizing problems.
Formal operations.

11. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
The model does not include a morality of care.
The Oedipus complex.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

12. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...
Effortful control.
Identity integration
Socialization.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.

13. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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14. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
Privileged domains.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Enabling interactions
more

15. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
Authoritarian
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
A scale error
An entity model of intelligence.

16. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
transductive reasoning
The human papillomavirus.
Puberty.
Chlamydia

17. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

18. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Decrease in efficiency
Authoritarian
Conservation.
Moratorium

19. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
Socioeconomic status.
Mental operations.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Prevention science.

20. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.
slowly
Plan ahead.
A. more wooden buttons.
Violence

21. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Sensory register
Emphasize obedience.
Enabling interactions
. psychodynamic view

22. Piaget believed that the greatest limitation to young children's thinking was...
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Personality formation
Microsystem
Transductivity.

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

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24. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
Cultural socialization
Gina - an early-maturing female
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
A performance orientation.

25. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
Independent.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
. the social goal
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.

26. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
Creative arts
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Differential reinforcement

27. 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...
Confusing appearance and reality.
Autobiographical memory.
Egocentrism
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

28. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Relational aggression
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Gina - an early-maturing female

29. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
A. more wooden buttons.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Increases; decreases
Emerging adulthood.

30. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Instrumental aggression.

31. A male's first ejaculation is called...
Creative arts
Spermarche.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.

32. In this stage of sexual identity development are sexual-minority individuals who have come to terms with their homosexuality and are 'out' in their communities?
Identity integration
Metamemory.
Motor drive
slowly

33. In terms of sleep - adolescents...
Realistic mathematics education.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
A scale error
Need about 8 hours.

34. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Decreases; remains the same
Confusing appearance and reality.
Improvement in social status
Decision making

35. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
slowly
Genetic and environmental factors.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.

36. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Not supported by research
Mental operations.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Elaboration.

37. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
Spermarche.
Empathy
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.

38. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
Gay and lesbian parents
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Socioeconomic status.
. Decoding

39. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...
Thought processes.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Experience sampling method.
Not supported by research

40. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...
Mental operations.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Gay and lesbian parents
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.

41. Not the result of the maturation of the frontal lobe?
to be enrolled in preschool
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Higher levels of intelligence

42. __________ can be characterized as a form of activity that is intermediate between the implicit socialization of everyday family life and the explicit teaching of formal education.
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
Apprenticeship
The drawer in the in kitchen
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.

43. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
Microsystem
Metamemory.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Instrumental aggression.

44. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation
The survival goal.
At risk for obesity.
Compensation.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

45. The memory strategy that involves making connections between two or more things to be remembered is called...
Elaboration.
Creative arts
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
An infusion of pubertal hormones

46. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
Script.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Effortful control.

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

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48. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Financial recession.
Formal operations
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

49. 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
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Social interaction
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.

50. 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...
Socialization.
Experience sampling method.
more
A scale error