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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...
Me-self
Cultural socialization
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Disciplinarian

2. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Elaboration.
Foreclosure.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

3. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
Social conventional; personal
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Slower

4. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Compensation.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Metamemory.

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.
Independent.
Increases
Not supported by research
Apprenticeship

6. 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?
Personal and social conventional
More
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Rehearsal.

7. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Cultural socialization
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.

8. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Metamemory.
Personal distress
Sensory register
Uneven and variable

9. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.
transductive reasoning
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Homophily.
Need about 8 hours.

10. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...
Egocentrism
Effortful control.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
support emotion and security needs.

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

12. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
The survival goal.
stereotypes
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.

13. Vygotsky believed that which of the following plays a key role in self-regulation and can allow children to create their own zones of proximal development?
throw a ball overhand.
Personal distress
Motor drive
direct instruction - Play

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

15. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Exosystem.

16. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
Social interaction
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
puberty
Privileged domains.

17. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...
Slower
Skipping.
Differential reinforcement
Higher levels of intelligence

18. 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.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Sociodramatic play
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Instrumental aggression.

19. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Internalizing problems.
. saturated self.

20. Adolescent ethnic identity formation is not strong when...
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Identity assumption
Specific learning disabilities.
Elaboration.

21. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Emerging adulthood.
Sensory register
Cultural socialization

22. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
Computer.
When parents are not getting along
controlling conflict within a social group.
An entity model of intelligence.

23. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...
Exosystem.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.

24. Various studies of the influence of television violence on children's behavior have found...
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Mental operations.
Puberty.
Homophily.

25. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Transductivity.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Prosocial behavior

26. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
Elaboration.
Mental operations.
throw a ball overhand.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

27. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...
Auxiliary hair appears
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Motor drive

28. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
direct instruction - Play
Increases
Identity formation
clique

29. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
Emerging adulthood.
Independent.
A scale error
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'

30. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Self-regulatory capacity.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Cultural socialization
Independent.

31. NOT characteristic of school problems?
Sociodramatic play
Sociodramatic play.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Me-self

32. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Decoding.
Biological maturation.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Egocentrism

33. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
More rigid
Rehearsal.
Moratorium

34. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Enabling interactions
Identification.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Agility.

35. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Plan ahead.
. saturated self.
Identification.
Authoritarian

36. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
Dyslexia.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Identification through differentiation

37. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...
Flynn effect.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Moratorium
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

38. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Risky and potentially harmful.
. the social goal
Moratorium

39. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Internalizing problems.
Slower
Sensory register

40. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Chlamydia
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
controlling conflict within a social group.
Formal operations.

41. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Violence
support emotion and security needs.
Increases; decreases

42. 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...
Genetic and environmental factors.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Biological maturation.
Experience sampling method.

43. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
positive emotions
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
stereotypes
Enabling interactions

44. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?
A. more wooden buttons.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

45. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Elaboration.
Sociodramatic play
Deviancy in adolescence.

46. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
A scale error
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

47. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Financial recession.
. saturated self.
Spermarche.
Agility.

48. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
. Decoding
Social intelligence.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.

49. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
more
clique
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Creative arts

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