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Human Development - HDFC

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...






2. 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...






3. Alfred Binet is known for creating...






4. NOT characteristic of school problems?






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






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






7. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?






8. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.






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






10. 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?






11. 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






12. 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.






13. 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...






14. Borke's replication of Piaget and Inhelder's three-mountain experiment in which children were presented with a Sesame Street character that drove around familiar landmarks demonstrated that three- and four-year-old children are capable of...






15. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...






16. __________ 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.






17. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...






18. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...






19. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?






20. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.






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






22. Authoritative parents are...






23. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...






24. According to information-processing approach to cognitive development - before stimulation from the environment (or 'input') can be stored in either short-term memory or long-term memory - it must pass through the...






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






26. The understanding that the properties of an object or substance remain the same even if its appearance is altered in some superficial way is called...






27. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?






28. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.






29. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.






30. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...






31. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...






32. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...






33. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?






34. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...






35. 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...






36. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...






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






38. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...






39. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.






40. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...






41. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?






42. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...






43. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.






44. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...






45. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...






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






47. Not a protective factor






48. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...






49. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?






50. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...