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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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...
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Masturbation
Reciprocal teaching.
Computer.

2. Not a risk factor for child abuse?
Identity integration
. children older than seven years of age
Identification.
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.

3. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
Piaget
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Socioeconomic status.
The survival goal.

4. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
puberty
Biological maturation.
The Oedipus complex.

5. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...
Sociodramatic play.
Higher levels of intelligence
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Social intelligence.

6. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
Emerging adulthood.
Egocentrism
Authoritative
Computer.

7. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Financial recession.
support emotion and security needs.
Interdependence

8. Authoritarian
Empathy
to be enrolled in preschool
Social and emotional development.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other

9. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
slowly
Inability to categorize objects
. the social goal

10. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Enabling interactions
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Deviancy in adolescence.
Financial recession.

11. 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...
Experience sampling method.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
throw a ball overhand.
Socioeconomic status.

12. 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...
Authoritarian
Kitchen.
Dyslexia.
Biological maturation.

13. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...
Personal and social conventional
Transductivity.
Instrumental aggression.
Socialization.

14. The extent to which friends are similar to one another is referred to as...
Homophily.
throw a ball overhand.
Masturbation
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.

15. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.
Authoritarian
A. more wooden buttons.
Emotional climate of family
Piaget

16. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Apprenticeship
Decreases; remains the same
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

17. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Egocentrism
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Thought processes.

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

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19. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
Social interaction
clique
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.

20. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?
Creative arts
Auxiliary hair appears
Social intelligence.
Socialization.

21. The memory strategy that involves making connections between two or more things to be remembered is called...
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Compensation.
Elaboration.

22. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
Personal distress
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Identification through differentiation
Emphasize obedience.

23. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Increases
A. more wooden buttons.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.

24. Studies comparing schooled and nonschooled students have demonstrated that...
An entity model of intelligence.
Stage 4
Not supported by research
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.

25. Not a way schooling differs from traditional apprenticeship training?

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26. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
A scale error
Violence
Rehearsal.

27. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
puberty
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Internalizing problems.

28. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
to be enrolled in preschool

29. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...
Empathy
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
School-cutoff strategy.

30. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Prevention science.
Microsystem
Auxiliary hair appears

31. Piaget believed that the greatest limitation to young children's thinking was...
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Transductivity.
A performance orientation.
controlling conflict within a social group.

32. How many hours of sleep in a 24-hour period should a child between the ages of 2 and 5 get?
Cultural socialization
Inability to categorize objects
Internalizing problems.
12 to 15 hours

33. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Inability to categorize objects

34. 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?
Identity integration
Homophily.
Kitchen.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

35. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
Computer.
Sensory register
Mental operations.
Uterus growth.

36. One of the key aspects of Piaget's formal operations involves...
Rehearsal.
Prevention science.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
A scale error

37. Which of the following categories of racial socialization messages appears to be associated with stronger cognitive abilities and fewer behavior problems among African-American children?
Cultural socialization
Instrumental aggression.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
stereotypes

38. Whose theory of adolescent development believed that adolescence is the consequence of evolutionary processes?
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Increases; decreases
Piaget
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

39. When talking about their sexual debut -...
Decision making
. the social goal
Conservation.
Girls report feelings of coercion.

40. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
Emphasize obedience.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Conservation.

41. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
12 to 15 hours
Specific learning disabilities.
to be enrolled in preschool
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

42. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
transductive reasoning
A scale error
Computer.
Identification through differentiation

43. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
Piaget
Neighborhood physical disorder.
clique
Social interaction

44. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Authoritative
Motor drive
throw a ball overhand.

45. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
. children older than seven years of age
Neighborhood physical disorder.
When parents are not getting along
Transductivity.

46. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Chlamydia
stereotypes
Socioeconomic status.

47. 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?
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
Homophily.
. psychodynamic view
A. more wooden buttons.

48. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
Increases
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
Privileged domains.
Experience sampling method.

49. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
Social interaction
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.

50. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
Cultural socialization
positive emotions
Kitchen.
Multiple intelligences.