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Human Development - HDFC

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1. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
to be enrolled in preschool
Cultural socialization
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
The model does not include a morality of care.

2. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?
School-cutoff strategy.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.

3. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
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.
Thought processes.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.

4. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
to be enrolled in preschool
Specific learning disabilities.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Effortful control.

5. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
At risk for obesity.
Moratorium
Specific learning disabilities.

6. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Emphasize obedience.
Uneven and variable
controlling conflict within a social group.

7. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Agility.
Foreclosure.
Not supported by research
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.

8. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?
Identification through differentiation
Improvement in social status
Identity integration
Apprenticeship

9. 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
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Creative arts
Metamemory.
Compensation.

10. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?
Emerging adulthood.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Inability to categorize objects

11. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
Apprenticeship
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Socioeconomic status.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.

12. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
The Oedipus complex.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking

13. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Autobiographical memory.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Creative arts
positive emotions

14. 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...
stereotypes
Reciprocal teaching.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking

15. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Socioeconomic status.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Internalizing problems.
Decreases; remains the same

16. NOT characteristic of school problems?
Postconventional level
Specific learning disabilities.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
positive emotions

17. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Theory theory
Homophily.
Decoding.
Cultural socialization

18. Research on fathers suggests that...
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
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
Uneven and variable

19. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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20. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
Uterus growth.
Social interaction
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Identity formation

21. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Compensation.
Egocentrism
Motor drive
Emotional climate of family

22. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Piaget
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Thought processes.

23. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Personal distress
. psychodynamic view
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Independent.

24. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Biological maturation.
Personal and social conventional
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

25. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
When parents are not getting along
Instrumental aggression.
support emotion and security needs.
More

26. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
slowly
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Deviancy in adolescence.

27. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
Empathy
Inability to categorize objects
Kitchen.
Social interaction

28. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Egocentrism
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Flynn effect.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

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

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30. 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?
Sensory register
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Social and emotional development.
Cultural socialization

31. One of the key aspects of Piaget's formal operations involves...
Financial recession.
Uneven and variable
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Gina - an early-maturing female

32. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
At risk for obesity.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
clique
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.

33. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Theory of mind.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Foreclosure.
Enabling interactions

34. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
Self-regulatory capacity.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Kitchen.
Realistic mathematics education.

35. 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...
Exosystem.
Transductivity.
Compensation.
Emerging adulthood.

36. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
Me-self
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Personal and social conventional
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.

37. A primary sex characteristic...
Enabling interactions
Thought processes.
Exosystem.
Uterus growth.

38. Findings from the research of Kenneth and Mamie Clark has led psychologists to conclude that...
Reciprocal teaching.
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Agility.
Gay and lesbian parents

39. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Spermarche.
Sociodramatic play
Chlamydia

40. 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?
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
direct instruction - Play
Identification through differentiation
Authoritative

41. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
Personal and social conventional
Prevention science.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

42. The memory strategy that involves making connections between two or more things to be remembered is called...
More
Elaboration.
12 to 15 hours
Social intelligence.

43. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Gay and lesbian parents
Decreases; remains the same
Mental operations.
Instrumental aggression.

44. Adolescent boys and girls - whose friends engage in high levels of disruptive behavior at the beginning of a school year - are more likely to experience ___________ in the level of their own disruptive behavior later in the school year.
. Decoding
Increases
Authoritative
Internalizing problems.

45. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...
Decrease in efficiency
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Culture-sensitive instruction.

46. 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?
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Personal and social conventional
Violence
Formal operations.

47. having extended family involved in their lives.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
The survival goal.
Decrease in efficiency

48. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
More
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Me-self

49. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
The human papillomavirus.
Rehearsal.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.

50. 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?
transductive reasoning
Script.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Identity integration