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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...
Sociodramatic play.
Inability to categorize objects
Personality formation
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.

2. 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.
more
Risky and potentially harmful.
Identification through differentiation
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

3. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Reciprocal teaching.
Identification.
direct instruction - Play
The ovaries and the testes.

4. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.
Apprenticeship
Sociodramatic play
Authoritative
Gina - an early-maturing female

5. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Slower
Instrumental aggression.
Relational aggression
Experience sampling method.

6. Authoritarian
Relational aggression
Social and emotional development.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Violence

7. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...
Instrumental aggression.
The survival goal.
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
An entity model of intelligence.

8. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...
Improvement in social status
Empathy
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

9. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
Multiple intelligences.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Cultural socialization
Biological maturation.

10. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
Formal operations.
Thought processes.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Auxiliary hair appears

11. A male's first ejaculation is called...
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Spermarche.
Violence
School-cutoff strategy.

12. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...
More
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Exosystem.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.

13. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

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14. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Experience sampling method.
Empathy
Authoritative
Decoding.

15. The fear - guilt - and conflict stirred up by a boy's desire to kill his father and live with his mother taking his father's place is known as...
The Oedipus complex.
Sociodramatic play
. Decoding
Social and emotional development.

16. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Egocentrism
Formal operations.
Increases; decreases
Slower

17. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
A scale error
When parents are not getting along
Interdependence
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.

18. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
Identity integration
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
More rigid
The drawer in the in kitchen

19. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
Plan ahead.
Decrease in efficiency
Empathy
Internalizing problems.

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

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21. 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.
Skipping.
Increases
Independent.
Privileged domains.

22. How many hours of sleep in a 24-hour period should a child between the ages of 2 and 5 get?
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
12 to 15 hours
Identity integration

23. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
The model does not include a morality of care.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.

24. having extended family involved in their lives.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Transductivity.
Not supported by research
The survival goal.

25. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
Risky and potentially harmful.
to be enrolled in preschool
Theory of mind.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.

26. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...
Postconventional level
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Identity formation
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other

27. Five-year-old Jacob is playing with his grandmother's buttons. He counts eight wooden buttons and three plastic buttons. When his grandmother asks Jacob if he has more wooden buttons or more buttons - he will most likely indicate that there are...
Authoritarian
Creative arts
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
A. more wooden buttons.

28. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Me-self
An entity model of intelligence.
Self-regulatory capacity.

29. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that
Specific learning disabilities.
Social intelligence.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Skipping.

30. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
The ovaries and the testes.
Theory of mind.

31. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
Decrease in efficiency
clique
An entity model of intelligence.
Formal operations

32. 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.
Realistic mathematics education.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.

33. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Foreclosure.
more
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Prevention science.

34. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
Privileged domains.
clique
positive emotions
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.

35. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Independent.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Piaget
Gina - an early-maturing female

36. __________ 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.
Flynn effect.
transductive reasoning
Apprenticeship
Social and emotional development.

37. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
A performance orientation.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
. psychodynamic view
Disciplinarian

38. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Violence
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

39. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.
Authoritative
Authoritarian
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.

40. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Experience sampling method.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

41. Research on young children demonstrates that high levels of ______________ measured at the beginning of a year is associated with high levels of self-regulation when measured later in the same year.
Cultural socialization
Sociodramatic play
Authoritative
Auxiliary hair appears

42. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
Interdependence
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

43. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Increases; decreases
The human papillomavirus.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.

44. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...
Formal operations.
Thought processes.
Biological maturation.
Socioeconomic status.

45. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Compensation.
Moratorium
A performance orientation.

46. 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?
Cultural socialization
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Social interaction
. saturated self.

47. 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?
Masturbation
Personal and social conventional
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Sociodramatic play.

48. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Internalizing problems.
Autobiographical memory.
Personal and social conventional

49. Findings from the research of Kenneth and Mamie Clark has led psychologists to conclude that...
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Moratorium
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.

50. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Internalizing problems.
Dyslexia.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Emotional climate of family