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Human Development - HDFC

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1. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Compensation.
Improvement in social status
. children older than seven years of age

2. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
Specific learning disabilities.
Apprenticeship
The human papillomavirus.
Experience sampling method.

3. 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...
Emphasize obedience.
. psychodynamic view
direct instruction - Play
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.

4. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Compensation.
Me-self

5. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Foreclosure.
Need about 8 hours.
The model does not include a morality of care.
Decoding.

6. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Biological maturation.
Chlamydia
Risky and potentially harmful.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.

7. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Decoding.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Uneven and variable
The Oedipus complex.

8. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...
Social conventional; personal
Authoritarian
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.

9. Kohlberg's process of sex-role development mostly closely follows...

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10. 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 ____________
The ovaries and the testes.
Social conventional; personal
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

11. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Decoding.
Specific learning disabilities.
The drawer in the in kitchen

12. Research on fathers suggests that...
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Deviancy in adolescence.
Kitchen.

13. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Cultural socialization
Apprenticeship
Identification.
Enabling interactions

14. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Motor drive
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning

15. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
Apprenticeship
. saturated self.
Not supported by research
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking

16. 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.
. the social goal
Spermarche.

17. Not a risk factor for child abuse?
School-cutoff strategy.
The human papillomavirus.
. children older than seven years of age
Motor drive

18. Not a protective factor
Financial recession.
Compensation.
Computer.
Metamemory.

19. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Multiple intelligences.
Uneven and variable
Emphasize obedience.
Identity formation

20. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
When parents are not getting along
Genetic and environmental factors.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

21. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
more
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.

22. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...
Skipping.
Kitchen.
Instrumental aggression.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.

23. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Microsystem
Masturbation
Flynn effect.
Compensation.

24. Studies comparing schooled and nonschooled students have demonstrated that...
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Higher levels of intelligence
Disciplinarian
Chlamydia

25. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...
Multiple intelligences.
Stage 4
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
A scale error

26. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Slower
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Agility.

27. In their study of planning - Gardner and Rogoff found that

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28. 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...
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Social conventional; personal

29. 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
The drawer in the in kitchen
Moratorium
Self-regulatory capacity.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.

30. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?
Egocentrism
Autobiographical memory.
Gina - an early-maturing female
Script.

31. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Personal distress
Sociodramatic play.
Internalizing problems.
slowly

32. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Plan ahead.
Instrumental aggression.
Agility.
Independent.

33. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes
More rigid
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Enabling interactions
Not supported by research

34. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Identification through differentiation
Flynn effect.
Differential reinforcement

35. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Identity assumption
Prevention science.
controlling conflict within a social group.

36. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...
Socialization.
Thought processes.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Social intelligence.

37. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
Specific learning disabilities.
Decrease in efficiency
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

38. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
Slower
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
A scale error
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

39. 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...
. saturated self.
Transductivity.
A. more wooden buttons.
Me-self

40. 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...
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Internalizing problems.
Kitchen.
Compensation.

41. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Identification.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Creative arts

42. Which type of aggression are preschool aged girls more likely to engage in than preschool boys?
Reciprocal teaching.
Uterus growth.
Autobiographical memory.
Relational aggression

43. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Rehearsal.
Socioeconomic status.
Conservation.

44. 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...
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Social intelligence.
Sensory register
Deviancy in adolescence.

45. 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...
Formal operations
Reciprocal teaching.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.

46. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Stage 4
The model does not include a morality of care.
Increases

47. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Identification through differentiation
. children older than seven years of age

48. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
Socioeconomic status.
Social intelligence.
Conservation.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.

49. The extent to which friends are similar to one another is referred to as...
Plan ahead.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Homophily.
Auxiliary hair appears

50. 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...
clique
Kitchen.
Sensory register
Puberty.