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Human Development - HDFC

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1. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Authoritarian
positive emotions
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking

2. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
Socialization.
Autobiographical memory.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Conservation.

3. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
Plan ahead.
Microsystem
Gay and lesbian parents
positive emotions

4. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
puberty
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence

5. Which view of moral development suggests that children acquire a sense of What is right and wrong from internalizing the moral standards of their parents?
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Need about 8 hours.
. psychodynamic view
Self-regulatory capacity.

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

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7. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?
Experience sampling method.
Stage 4
Personal and social conventional
Internalizing problems.

8. 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?
Decoding.
Identity assumption
Personal and social conventional
Empathy

9. 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...
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Decreases; remains the same
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Conservation.

10. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Exosystem.
Mental operations.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.

11. Piaget believed that the greatest limitation to young children's thinking was...
Puberty.
Transductivity.
Mental operations.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.

12. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

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13. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
Homophily.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
When parents are not getting along
Need about 8 hours.

14. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
Effortful control.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Emotional climate of family
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.

15. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?
Sensory register
More
Personality formation
Inability to categorize objects

16. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...
Personality formation
Sociodramatic play.
Authoritative
puberty

17. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
Decision making
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
positive emotions
Deviancy in adolescence.

18. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
Higher levels of intelligence
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Exosystem.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.

19. The understanding that the properties of an object or substance remain the same even if its appearance is altered in some superficial way is called...
At risk for obesity.
School-cutoff strategy.
Conservation.
Multiple intelligences.

20. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Flynn effect.
Microsystem
A performance orientation.

21. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
Not supported by research
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Apprenticeship

22. 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.
Decision making
Social and emotional development.
Increases
Violence

23. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Independent.
support emotion and security needs.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Compensation.

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...
Inability to categorize objects
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Compensation.
stereotypes

25. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
. saturated self.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.

26. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Enabling interactions
Decreases; remains the same
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.

27. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
Sociodramatic play
puberty
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Computer.

28. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
Social interaction
Cultural socialization
Emerging adulthood.
Socialization.

29. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
Socialization.
Chlamydia
Script.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.

30. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that
Effortful control.
. Decoding
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

31. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Socialization.
Interdependence
The drawer in the in kitchen

32. According to Piaget -...
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Slower
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

33. Alfred Binet is known for creating...
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Skipping.
Me-self

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

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35. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
An entity model of intelligence.
Creative arts
Conservation.

36. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
support emotion and security needs.
. psychodynamic view
Microsystem
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking

37. In the reciprocal-teaching approach...
Rehearsal.
Decoding.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
More rigid

38. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Relational aggression
Microsystem
The survival goal.

39. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Emphasize obedience.
Metamemory.
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.

40. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
Decision making
More
support emotion and security needs.
Identification.

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

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42. Studies of poor families suggest that such factors as stress - the dangerous circumstances of daily life in poor areas - and the nature of parents' jobs tend to cause poor parents to...
Computer.
Emphasize obedience.
. Decoding
Foreclosure.

43. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
Sociodramatic play.
Identification through differentiation
Transductivity.
Apprenticeship

44. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
More rigid
Disciplinarian
support emotion and security needs.

45. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
Dyslexia.
clique
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Increases

46. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Egocentrism
Risky and potentially harmful.
Agility.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.

47. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Kitchen.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Gay and lesbian parents

48. 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 ____________
Prosocial behavior
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Social conventional; personal
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.

49. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Flynn effect.
Elaboration.
Uneven and variable
Computer.

50. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Gina - an early-maturing female
stereotypes
Flynn effect.