Human Development - HDFC

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1. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...
Skipping.
Plan ahead.
Social conventional; personal
Rehearsal.


2. Adolescent ethnic identity formation is not strong when...
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
to be enrolled in preschool
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.


3. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Social intelligence.
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
Autobiographical memory.
Chlamydia


4. The school-cutoff strategy helps researchers to...

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5. __________ can be characterized as a form of activity that is intermediate between the implicit socialization of everyday family life and the explicit teaching of formal education.
Puberty.
Apprenticeship
stereotypes
Need about 8 hours.


6. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?
Socioeconomic status.
Emotional climate of family
Disciplinarian
Mental operations.


7. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Self-regulatory capacity.
Identification.
Multiple intelligences.
Sociodramatic play.


8. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?
Egocentrism
Specific learning disabilities.
Flynn effect.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate


9. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...
controlling conflict within a social group.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Mental operations.
Homophily.


10. Children adopting an entity theory of intelligence are more likely than others to...

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11. In their study of planning - Gardner and Rogoff found that

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12. 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?
Autobiographical memory.
. psychodynamic view
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
More


13. Research on the use of interactive media suggests that boys who play computer games often spend _________ time with their friends outside of school than boys who spend little to no time playing on the computer.
Dyslexia.
Computer.
more
Enabling interactions


14. Cross-cultural studies of concrete operations demonstrate that...

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15. 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?
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Cultural socialization
Conservation.
Risky and potentially harmful.


16. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.
slowly
Self-regulatory capacity.
Sensory register
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.


17. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Gay and lesbian parents
Conservation.
Masturbation


18. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'
Transductivity.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Script.
Mental operations.


19. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
12 to 15 hours
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.


20. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.
Autobiographical memory.
When parents are not getting along
The human papillomavirus.
Authoritarian


21. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
When parents are not getting along
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Transductivity.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.


22. In Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning - at which level does reasoning require people to go beyond the existing social conventions to consider more abstract principles of right and wrong?
Cultural socialization
Me-self
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Postconventional level


23. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Relational aggression
to be enrolled in preschool
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other


24. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Social conventional; personal
Auxiliary hair appears
At risk for obesity.


25. 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?
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Personal and social conventional
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.


26. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
Cultural socialization
Dyslexia.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Kitchen.


27. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Biological maturation.
Decision making
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks


28. Research on fathers suggests that...
Postconventional level
Cultural socialization
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Prevention science.


29. Various studies of the influence of television violence on children's behavior have found...
. the social goal
Social intelligence.
Identification through differentiation
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.


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

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31. 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...
Neighborhood physical disorder.
12 to 15 hours
Conservation.
The human papillomavirus.


32. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
Higher levels of intelligence
Dyslexia.
clique
Experience sampling method.


33. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Piaget
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Authoritative


34. The extent to which friends are similar to one another is referred to as...
Personal distress
Homophily.
Flynn effect.
Compensation.


35. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
Formal operations
Gay and lesbian parents
Privileged domains.
Postconventional level


36. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Instrumental aggression.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
School-cutoff strategy.


37. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
Theory theory
Instrumental aggression.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Identity formation


38. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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39. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
positive emotions
Biological maturation.
clique
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.


40. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Foreclosure.
Plan ahead.
throw a ball overhand.


41. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
Plan ahead.
More rigid
The human papillomavirus.
Social intelligence.


42. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Internalizing problems.
Identity formation
Emerging adulthood.


43. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
A performance orientation.
The Oedipus complex.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.


44. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Creative arts
. Decoding
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Conservation.


45. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Egocentrism
Deviancy in adolescence.
. Decoding


46. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
Emerging adulthood.
Skipping.
Realistic mathematics education.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently


47. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?
The survival goal.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Social intelligence.
Stage 4


48. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Internalizing problems.
Agility.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.


49. Which type of aggression are preschool aged girls more likely to engage in than preschool boys?
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
Kitchen.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Relational aggression


50. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
An entity model of intelligence.
Inability to categorize objects
Confusing appearance and reality.
Agility.