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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?
Cultural socialization
support emotion and security needs.
The ovaries and the testes.
Prevention science.

2. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Internalizing problems.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
stereotypes

3. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
The model does not include a morality of care.
Personal distress
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Me-self

4. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...
Formal operations.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Socialization.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.

5. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Identification.
puberty
Identity integration
Social intelligence.

6. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
Gina - an early-maturing female
Identification through differentiation
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

7. By helping children to recall and interpret events in which they have participated - adults help children acquire an enduring sense of themselves by creating a sort of personal narrative - referred to as the child's...
Autobiographical memory.
Relational aggression
Prosocial behavior
Rehearsal.

8. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
stereotypes
Self-regulatory capacity.
puberty

9. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Autobiographical memory.
Motor drive
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning

10. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?
Inability to categorize objects
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
An entity model of intelligence.
Masturbation

11. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits
School-cutoff strategy.
Me-self
. Decoding
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.

12. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Socioeconomic status.
Instrumental aggression.
Creative arts
Skipping.

13. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
Apprenticeship
Prevention science.
Violence
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.

14. Not a protective factor
Microsystem
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Financial recession.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

15. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Script.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Sociodramatic play

16. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
Computer.
Personality formation
Sensory register
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

17. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Stage 4

18. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Effortful control.
Identity integration
Identification through differentiation
Specific learning disabilities.

19. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Deviancy in adolescence.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Interdependence

20. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Instrumental aggression.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Decrease in efficiency

21. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
When parents are not getting along
Microsystem
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Deviancy in adolescence.

22. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
Rehearsal.
Egocentrism
Self-regulatory capacity.
Metamemory.

23. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
positive emotions
. saturated self.
Multiple intelligences.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

24. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Social and emotional development.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Effortful control.

25. A primary sex characteristic...
Uterus growth.
Postconventional level
Egocentrism
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.

26. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Apprenticeship
Slower
Chlamydia
Conservation.

27. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
When parents are not getting along
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.

28. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Moratorium
Improvement in social status
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Formal operations.

29. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?
Social intelligence.
Homophily.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.

30. 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...
Slower
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Compensation.

31. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
support emotion and security needs.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
The ovaries and the testes.
Emotional climate of family

32. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
to be enrolled in preschool
Social and emotional development.
controlling conflict within a social group.

33. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Agility.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Me-self
Autobiographical memory.

34. When it comes to television - children between the ages of 4 and 5...

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35. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
Interdependence
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
When parents are not getting along
Financial recession.

36. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Violence
Decreases; remains the same

37. The term gonads refers to...
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
The ovaries and the testes.
Specific learning disabilities.
Improvement in social status

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

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39. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Financial recession.
Gay and lesbian parents

40. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.
Socioeconomic status.
Sensory register
Identity formation
Authoritarian

41. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
Experience sampling method.
Personality formation
Prevention science.
Emotional climate of family

42. Adolescent ethnic identity formation is not strong when...
Apprenticeship
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate

43. 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...
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Formal operations.
. Decoding
Emphasize obedience.

44. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Egocentrism
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
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

45. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
Neighborhood physical disorder.
slowly
Homophily.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy

46. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?
The Oedipus complex.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks

47. Which type of aggression are preschool aged girls more likely to engage in than preschool boys?
Relational aggression
positive emotions
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Risky and potentially harmful.

48. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
Socialization.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
. psychodynamic view
puberty

49. 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?
Homophily.
Personal and social conventional
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Decreases; remains the same

50. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Identity assumption
Uneven and variable
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Effortful control.