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Human Development - HDFC
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Authoritative parents are...
Puberty.
The model does not include a morality of care.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Interdependence
2. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Motor drive
At risk for obesity.
Risky and potentially harmful.
3. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation
More
Exosystem.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
4. 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...
An entity model of intelligence.
A. more wooden buttons.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Specific learning disabilities.
5. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Decrease in efficiency
More rigid
Exosystem.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
6. If a 5-year-old watches a little girl put a piece of candy into a drawer in the kitchen and then watches the girl's mother move the piece of candy to the refrigerator without the little girl knowing - where will the 5-year-old say the little girl wil
puberty
Inability to categorize objects
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
The drawer in the in kitchen
7. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
The human papillomavirus.
Me-self
Prevention science.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
8. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?
Stage 4
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Agility.
Improvement in social status
9. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
Internalizing problems.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Increases; decreases
10. Children adopting an entity theory of intelligence are more likely than others to...
11. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Decoding.
Identity formation
The human papillomavirus.
Relational aggression
12. 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.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
support emotion and security needs.
13. A male's first ejaculation is called...
Spermarche.
Moratorium
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
direct instruction - Play
14. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Decreases; remains the same
to be enrolled in preschool
Metamemory.
15. Which type of aggression are preschool aged girls more likely to engage in than preschool boys?
Mental operations.
Relational aggression
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
slowly
16. The school-cutoff strategy helps researchers to...
17. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Puberty.
to be enrolled in preschool
Authoritarian
18. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits
throw a ball overhand.
Me-self
Compensation.
Formal operations
19. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
Theory of mind.
Exosystem.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Risky and potentially harmful.
20. having extended family involved in their lives.
Me-self
throw a ball overhand.
to be enrolled in preschool
The survival goal.
21. 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?
. psychodynamic view
Authoritative
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Prosocial behavior
22. Research on parent-adolescent relationships suggests that a great deal of conflict arises because of differences in opinion about the boundaries between which two social domains?
Personal and social conventional
The survival goal.
Apprenticeship
Decreases; remains the same
23. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
stereotypes
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Prevention science.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
24. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Identification.
Compensation.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Instrumental aggression.
25. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
An infusion of pubertal hormones
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
. children older than seven years of age
Sociodramatic play.
26. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.
Authoritarian
Decision making
Compensation.
positive emotions
27. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?
28. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
Violence
Microsystem
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
more
29. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...
Social intelligence.
Instrumental aggression.
The model does not include a morality of care.
12 to 15 hours
30. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Agility.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Moratorium
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
31. According to Piaget -...
. psychodynamic view
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Relational aggression
32. NOT characteristic of school problems?
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Multiple intelligences.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
33. 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...
Differential reinforcement
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Formal operations
34. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Formal operations.
35. 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?
Postconventional level
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
A. more wooden buttons.
Experience sampling method.
36. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?
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
Improvement in social status
direct instruction - Play
Uterus growth.
37. Not the result of the maturation of the frontal lobe?
Egocentrism
Chlamydia
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Higher levels of intelligence
38. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
Prevention science.
Rehearsal.
Script.
Stage 4
39. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Socioeconomic status.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
40. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?
Disciplinarian
Higher levels of intelligence
clique
Gina - an early-maturing female
41. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
The survival goal.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
. children older than seven years of age
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
42. The use of meaningful activities - supporting basic skills - and employing mathematical models in the learning of math are components of...
Sociodramatic play.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Realistic mathematics education.
Relational aggression
43. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
Identity formation
Script.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
More
44. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
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
clique
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Identity formation
45. 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?
Gina - an early-maturing female
Socioeconomic status.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Theory theory
46. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Internalizing problems.
Identity formation
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
The human papillomavirus.
47. According to information-processing approach to cognitive development - before stimulation from the environment (or 'input') can be stored in either short-term memory or long-term memory - it must pass through the...
Sensory register
Having extended family involved in their lives.
The model does not include a morality of care.
School-cutoff strategy.
48. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
Theory theory
Formal operations
At risk for obesity.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
49. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Socioeconomic status.
Stage 4
A scale error
50. In terms of sleep - adolescents...
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Need about 8 hours.
Homophily.