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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.
Authoritative
Script.
Gay and lesbian parents
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking

2. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Independent.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Exosystem.

3. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.
Personality formation
Violence
Uneven and variable
Effortful control.

4. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Creative arts
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
. psychodynamic view
School-cutoff strategy.

5. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Plan ahead.
Social conventional; personal
Personal distress
Dyslexia.

6. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
Theory of mind.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Internalizing problems.

7. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Rehearsal.
puberty
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking

8. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
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
Cultural socialization
Personal and social conventional

9. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Motor drive
Biological maturation.
Personality formation

10. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
Privileged domains.
to be enrolled in preschool
Spermarche.
Realistic mathematics education.

11. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Specific learning disabilities.
Cultural socialization
support emotion and security needs.

12. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
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.
clique
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Interdependence

13. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Socialization.
Realistic mathematics education.

14. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Risky and potentially harmful.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Metamemory.
Personality formation

15. 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...
Experience sampling method.
Increases; decreases
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Formal operations.

16. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?
Decision making
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Personal distress
Disciplinarian

17. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
School-cutoff strategy.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Emerging adulthood.

18. Authoritarian
Kitchen.
Personal and social conventional
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Social and emotional development.

19. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Decoding.
direct instruction - Play
Internalizing problems.

20. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Spermarche.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.

21. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Chlamydia
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Sociodramatic play.
support emotion and security needs.

22. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
Dyslexia.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Flynn effect.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.

23. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
to be enrolled in preschool
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Foreclosure.
The human papillomavirus.

24. Findings from the research of Kenneth and Mamie Clark has led psychologists to conclude that...
Enabling interactions
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
controlling conflict within a social group.

25. 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?
Microsystem
Flynn effect.
. psychodynamic view
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.

26. having extended family involved in their lives.
Decreases; remains the same
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
The survival goal.
Specific learning disabilities.

27. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.
slowly
School-cutoff strategy.
Foreclosure.
Piaget

28. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Specific learning disabilities.
Emerging adulthood.
Personal distress
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning

29. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.

30. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Autobiographical memory.
Biological maturation.
Genetic and environmental factors.

31. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
Script.
Internalizing problems.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Theory of mind.

32. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Risky and potentially harmful.
. psychodynamic view
Emotional climate of family
Specific learning disabilities.

33. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
A scale error
Decoding.
Identification through differentiation

34. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
Biological maturation.
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
Disciplinarian
Masturbation

35. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
Financial recession.
Higher levels of intelligence
Genetic and environmental factors.
Rehearsal.

36. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
controlling conflict within a social group.
Rehearsal.
Agility.
Decision making

37. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...
Conservation.
Decision making
Privileged domains.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

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

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39. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
. saturated self.
Identity integration
When parents are not getting along
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

40. 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...
Compensation.
Prosocial behavior
Socialization.
Gina - an early-maturing female

41. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'
Plan ahead.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence

42. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
Authoritarian
Thought processes.
Socioeconomic status.
Deviancy in adolescence.

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

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44. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Auxiliary hair appears
Biological maturation.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.

45. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
throw a ball overhand.
Chlamydia
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
to be enrolled in preschool

46. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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47. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
Microsystem
Uneven and variable
Confusing appearance and reality.
An entity model of intelligence.

48. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Uneven and variable
School-cutoff strategy.
Increases; decreases
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence

49. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?
. the social goal
Auxiliary hair appears
Puberty.
Instrumental aggression.

50. 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?
Dyslexia.
Identity assumption
Thought processes.
The drawer in the in kitchen