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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In terms of sleep - adolescents...
Need about 8 hours.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Violence

2. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...
Neighborhood physical disorder.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
puberty

3. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...
School-cutoff strategy.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Me-self

4. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
Plan ahead.
Egocentrism
. saturated self.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking

5. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Apprenticeship
Slower
Elaboration.
Gay and lesbian parents

6. Authoritative parents are...
Auxiliary hair appears
Exosystem.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
. saturated self.

7. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Flynn effect.
Conservation.
Financial recession.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.

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

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9. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
The survival goal.
Motor drive
A performance orientation.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.

10. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
. saturated self.
Decreases; remains the same
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Social interaction

11. Not the result of the maturation of the frontal lobe?
Microsystem
Exosystem.
Higher levels of intelligence
clique

12. Which approach does the idea that theory of mind develops from primitive theories of how the world works that are present at birth and modified through experience in the world follow?
Theory theory
Moratorium
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
throw a ball overhand.

13. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Social conventional; personal
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Moratorium
Dyslexia.

14. Not a risk factor for child abuse?
Emphasize obedience.
. children older than seven years of age
Enabling interactions
Socioeconomic status.

15. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
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
Confusing appearance and reality.
Plan ahead.

16. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Metamemory.
support emotion and security needs.
Foreclosure.

17. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Reciprocal teaching.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

18. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...
Formal operations
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Kitchen.

19. If a 5-year-old watches a little girl put a piece of candy into a drawer in the kitchen and then watches the girl's mother move the piece of candy to the refrigerator without the little girl knowing - where will the 5-year-old say the little girl wil
Thought processes.
Instrumental aggression.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Privileged domains.

20. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Instrumental aggression.
Puberty.
. Decoding
Decoding.

21. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
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
Socialization.
Violence
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.

22. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
. Decoding
Authoritative
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Formal operations

23. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
Authoritative
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
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.
Empathy

24. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Thought processes.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
The human papillomavirus.
Decrease in efficiency

25. having extended family involved in their lives.
A scale error
The survival goal.
clique
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

26. A primary sex characteristic...
to be enrolled in preschool
Foreclosure.
Uterus growth.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy

27. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Identification through differentiation
Internalizing problems.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.

28. In which stage of forming a sexual minority development would an individual who has had homosexual experiences and recognizes that they prefer sexual relations with members of their own sex but do not openly acknowledge their preference be?
. psychodynamic view
Thought processes.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Identity assumption

29. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Increases; decreases
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Biological maturation.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.

30. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
Deviancy in adolescence.
Identity formation
Foreclosure.
Authoritarian

31. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
The survival goal.
Empathy
Apprenticeship

32. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
Theory theory
Increases; decreases
Not supported by research
Flynn effect.

33. When talking about their sexual debut -...
Plan ahead.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Cultural socialization

34. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Dyslexia.
Cultural socialization

35. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
throw a ball overhand.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Identification through differentiation

36. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
More rigid
Authoritarian
Interdependence
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

37. 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?
A. more wooden buttons.
Decreases; remains the same
. the social goal
Identity integration

38. 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.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Theory theory

39. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Genetic and environmental factors.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Multiple intelligences.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.

40. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Improvement in social status
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Microsystem

41. 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...
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
support emotion and security needs.
Compensation.

42. The extent to which friends are similar to one another is referred to as...
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Need about 8 hours.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Homophily.

43. 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...
Sensory register
Multiple intelligences.
A. more wooden buttons.
. saturated self.

44. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Skipping.
Having extended family involved in their lives.

45. The use of meaningful activities - supporting basic skills - and employing mathematical models in the learning of math are components of...
Realistic mathematics education.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Identification through differentiation
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.

46. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...
Socialization.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
An entity model of intelligence.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.

47. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
A. more wooden buttons.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Effortful control.
Decoding.

48. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
Formal operations
Theory theory
Foreclosure.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking

49. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Internalizing problems.
Mental operations.
Violence

50. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Foreclosure.
Interdependence
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Enabling interactions