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Human Development - HDFC

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1. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
School-cutoff strategy.
Mental operations.
Slower
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

2. __________ 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.
Financial recession.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Slower
Apprenticeship

3. 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?
Slower
Moratorium
Multiple intelligences.
Identity integration

4. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Identity integration
Sensory register
Increases; decreases

5. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Decoding.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.

6. The use of meaningful activities - supporting basic skills - and employing mathematical models in the learning of math are components of...
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Realistic mathematics education.

7. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Identification.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
. saturated self.

8. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
Agility.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
clique
Slower

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

10. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
When parents are not getting along
An infusion of pubertal hormones
The survival goal.

11. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Socioeconomic status.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Interdependence

12. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Confusing appearance and reality.
Biological maturation.
Emotional climate of family

13. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
Deviancy in adolescence.
Gina - an early-maturing female
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.

14. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Chlamydia
. Decoding
more
The drawer in the in kitchen

15. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Script.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

16. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
clique
The human papillomavirus.
Uneven and variable
Masturbation

17. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Transductivity.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Higher levels of intelligence

18. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Moratorium
Formal operations.
Emphasize obedience.
Gay and lesbian parents

19. Whose theory of adolescent development believed that adolescence is the consequence of evolutionary processes?
Authoritarian
Identity integration
Identity formation
Piaget

20. A child reasons that the change in the level of a quantity of liquid brought about by pouring it from a short - wide beaker to a tall - narrow beaker is not caused by a change in the amount of the liquid - but by the fact that the taller beaker is al
Social and emotional development.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Compensation.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.

21. 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
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Slower

22. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Improvement in social status
Thought processes.
positive emotions

23. 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?
Skipping.
Theory theory
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

24. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
Higher levels of intelligence
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
support emotion and security needs.
Me-self

25. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
Decoding.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
A performance orientation.

26. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.
The Oedipus complex.
Decreases; remains the same
At risk for obesity.
A. more wooden buttons.

27. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...
Apprenticeship
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
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.

28. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Egocentrism
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Foreclosure.

29. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
Empathy
Gina - an early-maturing female
Disciplinarian
. saturated self.

30. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
Metamemory.
Higher levels of intelligence
Socialization.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.

31. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Disciplinarian
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Foreclosure.

32. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...
Experience sampling method.
Effortful control.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Plan ahead.

33. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.
Increases
transductive reasoning
Transductivity.
Financial recession.

34. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
Piaget
Puberty.
Higher levels of intelligence
Sensory register

35. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Thought processes.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Sensory register

36. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?
Auxiliary hair appears
Enabling interactions
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.

37. A teacher and a small group of students read silently through segments of text and take turns leading discussion of their meaning. This is an example of...
Reciprocal teaching.
Confusing appearance and reality.
. the social goal
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.

38. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
More
Gay and lesbian parents
Identification through differentiation

39. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Prevention science.
Independent.

40. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
. the social goal
Risky and potentially harmful.
slowly

41. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Homophily.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
puberty

42. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
Authoritative
throw a ball overhand.
Interdependence
The human papillomavirus.

43. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
direct instruction - Play
Cultural socialization
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Prosocial behavior

44. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...
Identity integration
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.

45. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Emphasize obedience.
Disciplinarian
stereotypes
Specific learning disabilities.

46. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Uterus growth.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
to be enrolled in preschool

47. Not the result of the maturation of the frontal lobe?
12 to 15 hours
Biological maturation.
Higher levels of intelligence
Identity assumption

48. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
Transductivity.
Social conventional; personal
Genetic and environmental factors.
The ovaries and the testes.

49. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
direct instruction - Play
Decrease in efficiency
Internalizing problems.
An entity model of intelligence.

50. Authoritarian
Relational aggression
Social and emotional development.
Spermarche.
Moratorium