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Human Development - HDFC

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The term gonads refers to...






2. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?






3. Cross-cultural research on the effects of schooling suggests that schooling...






4. Children adopting an entity theory of intelligence are more likely than others to...


5. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes






6. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...






7. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.






8. By helping children to recall and interpret events in which they have participated - adults help children acquire an enduring sense of themselves by creating a sort of personal narrative - referred to as the child's...






9. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.






10. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...






11. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...






12. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits






13. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...






14. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?






15. Studies comparing schooled and nonschooled students have demonstrated that...






16. 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?






17. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...






18. Whose theory of adolescent development believed that adolescence is the consequence of evolutionary processes?






19. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...






20. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?






21. When three-year-old children are told a story about a little boy who puts candy in a drawer - leaves the room - and doesn't see when his mother then moves the candy into the kitchen - they predict the boy will look for the candy in the...






22. 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...






23. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...






24. Authoritative parents are...






25. 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...






26. 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.






27. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation






28. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...






29. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?






30. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?






31. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...






32. 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?






33. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...






34. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.






35. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...






36. having extended family involved in their lives.






37. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'






38. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...






39. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.






40. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...






41. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...






42. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...






43. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?


44. 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...






45. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...






46. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?


47. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...






48. The most common STI in the U.S. is...






49. In terms of sleep - adolescents...






50. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?