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Human Development - HDFC
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1. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
The human papillomavirus.
Social and emotional development.
Emerging adulthood.
2. Not a protective factor
Internalizing problems.
Financial recession.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
transductive reasoning
3. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
4. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
Cultural socialization
Internalizing problems.
Disciplinarian
Gay and lesbian parents
5. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?
puberty
Formal operations.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Stage 4
6. The use of meaningful activities - supporting basic skills - and employing mathematical models in the learning of math are components of...
The Oedipus complex.
Decision making
to be enrolled in preschool
Realistic mathematics education.
7. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Decrease in efficiency
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Rehearsal.
8. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
The model does not include a morality of care.
. saturated self.
At risk for obesity.
Deviancy in adolescence.
9. 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...
Compensation.
clique
Moratorium
Identity integration
10. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
to be enrolled in preschool
Instrumental aggression.
The survival goal.
Improvement in social status
11. Authoritative parents are...
Compensation.
Social and emotional development.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
12. Kohlberg's process of sex-role development mostly closely follows...
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13. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...
direct instruction - Play
. Decoding
Socialization.
Personal distress
14. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?
Instrumental aggression.
Agility.
stereotypes
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
15. 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.
Social interaction
Piaget
12 to 15 hours
16. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
Confusing appearance and reality.
Inability to categorize objects
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Identity integration
17. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
Agility.
Kitchen.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Not supported by research
18. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Agility.
Piaget
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Genetic and environmental factors.
19. 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?
Personal distress
Effortful control.
Confusing appearance and reality.
. psychodynamic view
20. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
The survival goal.
Empathy
Social intelligence.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
21. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Emerging adulthood.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Cultural socialization
22. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
Privileged domains.
When parents are not getting along
Formal operations
Rehearsal.
23. How many hours of sleep in a 24-hour period should a child between the ages of 2 and 5 get?
support emotion and security needs.
12 to 15 hours
Foreclosure.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
24. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
Chlamydia
Kitchen.
Authoritative
Microsystem
25. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...
Decrease in efficiency
. the social goal
Empathy
Plan ahead.
26. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
Stage 4
Puberty.
Social intelligence.
Self-regulatory capacity.
27. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Decision making
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
direct instruction - Play
28. A male's first ejaculation is called...
Identity integration
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Spermarche.
slowly
29. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?
Foreclosure.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Improvement in social status
Postconventional level
30. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
Autobiographical memory.
Identity assumption
Mental operations.
support emotion and security needs.
31. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
The ovaries and the testes.
Compensation.
. Decoding
Formal operations
32. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
Homophily.
controlling conflict within a social group.
. saturated self.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
33. Which type of aggression are preschool aged girls more likely to engage in than preschool boys?
Postconventional level
Relational aggression
Egocentrism
Increases
34. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
An entity model of intelligence.
Deviancy in adolescence.
Cultural socialization
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
35. Vygotsky believed that which of the following plays a key role in self-regulation and can allow children to create their own zones of proximal development?
Experience sampling method.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
direct instruction - Play
36. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...
Microsystem
More
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Spermarche.
37. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.
Authoritarian
Personal distress
slowly
Emotional climate of family
38. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Autobiographical memory.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
39. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Flynn effect.
Not supported by research
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
40. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
Social and emotional development.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Financial recession.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
41. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Slower
Internalizing problems.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
transductive reasoning
42. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Decrease in efficiency
Moratorium
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Violence
43. Research in which participants carry electronic pagers that beep at random intervals - signaling that they need to fill out a brief report on their current feelings is called...
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Experience sampling method.
Social interaction
The drawer in the in kitchen
44. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?
A scale error
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
45. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
Socioeconomic status.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Violence
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
46. 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...
Social conventional; personal
Cultural socialization
Conservation.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
47. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Compensation.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
48. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
. psychodynamic view
Disciplinarian
The survival goal.
49. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
. Decoding
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
throw a ball overhand.
Masturbation
50. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
. saturated self.
More rigid
Theory of mind.
Instrumental aggression.