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Human Development - HDFC

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The term gonads refers to...






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






3. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...






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

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5. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?






6. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...






7. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...






8. 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?






9. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...






10. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

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11. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?






12. 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...






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






14. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...






15. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation






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






17. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...






18. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.






19. The most common STI in the U.S. is...






20. Not considered to be a privileged domain?






21. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?






22. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...






23. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that






24. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...






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

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26. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...






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






28. According to Piaget -...






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






30. 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...






31. A male's first ejaculation is called...






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






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

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34. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?






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






36. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...






37. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress






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






39. __________ 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.






40. 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...






41. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?






42. Not a risk factor for child abuse?






43. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...






44. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...






45. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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46. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits






47. When it comes to television - children between the ages of 4 and 5...

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48. 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?






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

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50. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...