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Human Development - HDFC

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1. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
. the social goal
Social interaction
Motor drive

2. Parents who insist that their adolescent dress in a socially appropriate way is operating from the boundaries of ____________; while an adolescent who insists that dress is a matter of personal choice are operating from the boundaries of ____________
Sensory register
Cultural socialization
Social conventional; personal
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

3. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
. Decoding
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

4. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Formal operations.
Sensory register
Formal operations

5. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...
Neighborhood physical disorder.
to be enrolled in preschool
Identity formation
Violence

6. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Privileged domains.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Specific learning disabilities.

7. One of the key aspects of Piaget's formal operations involves...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Homophily.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Improvement in social status

8. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Internalizing problems.
Theory theory
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Emerging adulthood.

9. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Computer.
Self-regulatory capacity.

10. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...
Multiple intelligences.
to be enrolled in preschool
Motor drive
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.

11. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Auxiliary hair appears
Spermarche.
Emotional climate of family

12. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Decrease in efficiency
Social and emotional development.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Homophily.

13. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
Reciprocal teaching.
The model does not include a morality of care.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Decreases; remains the same

14. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
Compensation.
Not supported by research
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Identity formation

15. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Authoritarian
Formal operations
Transductivity.

16. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
Biological maturation.
Motor drive
Social conventional; personal
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.

17. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...
School-cutoff strategy.
transductive reasoning
More
Elaboration.

18. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...
Disciplinarian
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Moratorium
support emotion and security needs.

19. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Culture-sensitive instruction.
to be enrolled in preschool
Dyslexia.
Flynn effect.

20. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...
Interdependence
Authoritarian
Socialization.
The survival goal.

21. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
Formal operations.
Conservation.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Puberty.

22. 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...
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
more
Kitchen.

23. Not a risk factor for child abuse?
Cultural socialization
. children older than seven years of age
Thought processes.
Social interaction

24. 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...
Confusing appearance and reality.
Social conventional; personal
The human papillomavirus.
Compensation.

25. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
A scale error
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
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.

26. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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27. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
Identity formation
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Creative arts
Confusing appearance and reality.

28. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
to be enrolled in preschool
More rigid
Mental operations.
Agility.

29. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
Creative arts
Identification.
Empathy
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks

30. 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?
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Postconventional level
Emerging adulthood.
Uneven and variable

31. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
Privileged domains.
Internalizing problems.
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
Prosocial behavior

32. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Metamemory.
Slower
Gina - an early-maturing female
Violence

33. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
When parents are not getting along
. the social goal
Skipping.

34. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
Stage 4
Privileged domains.
Script.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.

35. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?
Egocentrism
Empathy
throw a ball overhand.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.

36. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
The Oedipus complex.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Emerging adulthood.
Inability to categorize objects

37. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...
At risk for obesity.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Egocentrism
stereotypes

38. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
Reciprocal teaching.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.

39. A male's first ejaculation is called...
Authoritarian
The ovaries and the testes.
Spermarche.
An entity model of intelligence.

40. 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...
Sociodramatic play.
The Oedipus complex.
stereotypes
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.

41. Not a protective factor
Conservation.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Piaget
Financial recession.

42. A primary sex characteristic...
Uterus growth.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Transductivity.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

43. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?
Cultural socialization
Identity formation
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Culture-sensitive instruction.

44. Findings from the research of Kenneth and Mamie Clark has led psychologists to conclude that...
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
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.
Transductivity.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.

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

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46. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Creative arts
Conservation.
Cultural socialization
A. more wooden buttons.

47. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...
Differential reinforcement
Instrumental aggression.
controlling conflict within a social group.
Masturbation

48. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
Social interaction
Need about 8 hours.
Social intelligence.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.

49. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
The human papillomavirus.
Metamemory.
Interdependence
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

50. The term gonads refers to...
A scale error
Sociodramatic play.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
The ovaries and the testes.