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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Compensation.
Deviancy in adolescence.
Skipping.

2. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Identification through differentiation
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Flynn effect.

3. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.
Me-self
Violence
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Personality formation

4. 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...
slowly
Apprenticeship
Sensory register
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.

5. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
Script.
Privileged domains.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

6. 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...
Egocentrism
Experience sampling method.
Social intelligence.
Compensation.

7. 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...
Egocentrism
Compensation.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Masturbation

8. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Multiple intelligences.
Disciplinarian
Cultural socialization

9. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Prosocial behavior
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Exosystem.

10. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
transductive reasoning
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Authoritarian
puberty

11. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Effortful control.
Disciplinarian
Moratorium

12. When talking about their sexual debut -...
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Spermarche.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
. saturated self.

13. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Identification.
Agility.
Sociodramatic play.

14. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...
Plan ahead.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
A performance orientation.

15. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
More rigid
Agility.
Multiple intelligences.
controlling conflict within a social group.

16. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

17. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Reciprocal teaching.
throw a ball overhand.
Personal and social conventional

18. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Relational aggression
A performance orientation.
Piaget

19. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
Agility.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Social conventional; personal

20. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Identification.
puberty
Apprenticeship

21. A primary sex characteristic...
Personal and social conventional
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
The Oedipus complex.
Uterus growth.

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

23. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
Formal operations
More
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Decrease in efficiency

24. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Thought processes.
Slower
Improvement in social status
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.

25. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
controlling conflict within a social group.
Sociodramatic play
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Interdependence

26. In the reciprocal-teaching approach...
Enabling interactions
Spermarche.
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.

27. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
. psychodynamic view
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Having extended family involved in their lives.

28. 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...
Motor drive
A. more wooden buttons.
Piaget
Specific learning disabilities.

29. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Personal distress
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

30. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
Cultural socialization
Multiple intelligences.
Personal and social conventional
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.

31. Various studies of the influence of television violence on children's behavior have found...
Multiple intelligences.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
controlling conflict within a social group.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.

32. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Increases
Foreclosure.
Postconventional level
Empathy

33. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
Socialization.
Internalizing problems.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Self-regulatory capacity.

34. 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...
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Sociodramatic play.
slowly

35. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.
Decreases; remains the same
Emotional climate of family
transductive reasoning
The drawer in the in kitchen

36. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Compensation.
School-cutoff strategy.
The model does not include a morality of care.

37. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...
Conservation.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.

38. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...
The Oedipus complex.
Social conventional; personal
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.

39. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
more
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Specific learning disabilities.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.

40. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Sociodramatic play.
Exosystem.

41. 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...
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
A. more wooden buttons.
Prevention science.
Conservation.

42. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
Confusing appearance and reality.
Realistic mathematics education.
Compensation.
Formal operations.

43. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
The ovaries and the testes.
Compensation.
clique
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking

44. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Formal operations.
Gay and lesbian parents
Formal operations
Increases

45. 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...
clique
Decrease in efficiency
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Conservation.

46. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Not supported by research
Prevention science.
Increases; decreases
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.

47. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Realistic mathematics education.
The human papillomavirus.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

48. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Skipping.
Inability to categorize objects
The human papillomavirus.

49. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.

50. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?
Creative arts
. the social goal
support emotion and security needs.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.