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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Risky and potentially harmful.
throw a ball overhand.
Agility.

2. A child reasons that the change in the level of a quantity of liquid brought about by pouring it from a short - wide beaker to a tall - narrow beaker is not caused by a change in the amount of the liquid - but by the fact that the taller beaker is al
Metamemory.
Compensation.
Mental operations.
Identity integration

3. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Experience sampling method.
Improvement in social status
Self-regulatory capacity.

4. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
Authoritative
. children older than seven years of age
Formal operations.
Masturbation

5. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
More
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Empathy
Improvement in social status

6. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.

7. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...
Identity formation
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Biological maturation.
Neighborhood physical disorder.

8. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Theory theory
Specific learning disabilities.
Formal operations
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate

9. 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.
Increases
more
Dyslexia.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.

10. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Decision making
Inability to categorize objects
At risk for obesity.

11. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
Socialization.
Piaget
Not supported by research
to be enrolled in preschool

12. 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.
Genetic and environmental factors.
At risk for obesity.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate

13. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
Genetic and environmental factors.
More rigid
Compensation.
Inability to categorize objects

14. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
Script.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Thought processes.
Having extended family involved in their lives.

15. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...
Biological maturation.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Emphasize obedience.
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.

16. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Inability to categorize objects
Sociodramatic play.
Decoding.
Flynn effect.

17. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
The survival goal.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Flynn effect.

18. In the reciprocal-teaching approach...
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Egocentrism
Agility.
Decreases; remains the same

19. having extended family involved in their lives.
Autobiographical memory.
The survival goal.
Social conventional; personal
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.

20. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
support emotion and security needs.
Risky and potentially harmful.
The human papillomavirus.

21. 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?
Decrease in efficiency
Identity integration
more
Uterus growth.

22. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes
Multiple intelligences.
Increases; decreases
Decoding.
More rigid

23. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
Personal and social conventional
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Socioeconomic status.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking

24. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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25. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Motor drive
Transductivity.
A performance orientation.

26. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Formal operations.
Foreclosure.
Gay and lesbian parents

27. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...
Self-regulatory capacity.
Instrumental aggression.
Skipping.
Prevention science.

28. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Motor drive
Gay and lesbian parents
Formal operations.

29. A child sharing her apple slice with another child is an example of...
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Prosocial behavior
Foreclosure.

30. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
An entity model of intelligence.
Increases; decreases
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Financial recession.

31. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Genetic and environmental factors.
Stage 4
to be enrolled in preschool
Internalizing problems.

32. Which type of aggression are preschool aged girls more likely to engage in than preschool boys?
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Me-self
Relational aggression

33. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation
Instrumental aggression.
Compensation.
Disciplinarian
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

34. Five-year-old Jacob is playing with his grandmother's buttons. He counts eight wooden buttons and three plastic buttons. When his grandmother asks Jacob if he has more wooden buttons or more buttons - he will most likely indicate that there are...
Not supported by research
Uneven and variable
Social interaction
A. more wooden buttons.

35. A primary sex characteristic...
Cultural socialization
Empathy
Uterus growth.
Decrease in efficiency

36. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
to be enrolled in preschool
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Interdependence

37. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Authoritative
Violence
12 to 15 hours

38. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Exosystem.
Computer.
School-cutoff strategy.

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

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40. A child's ability to recognize that two rows of pennies each with the same number of pennies have the same number of pennies when one row of pennies is longer than the other is called...
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Conservation.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Disciplinarian

41. 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...
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Compensation.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.

42. 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 ____________
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
School-cutoff strategy.
Social conventional; personal
Script.

43. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
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
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.

44. 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...
Autobiographical memory.
Social intelligence.
Effortful control.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.

45. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
Privileged domains.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Increases; decreases
Internalizing problems.

46. In terms of sleep - adolescents...
Genetic and environmental factors.
Need about 8 hours.
Creative arts
more

47. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
Inability to categorize objects
Internalizing problems.
A performance orientation.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.

48. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Disciplinarian
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Multiple intelligences.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.

49. Not the result of the maturation of the frontal lobe?
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Rehearsal.
The human papillomavirus.
Higher levels of intelligence

50. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits
. the social goal
Me-self
clique
Conservation.