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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
direct instruction - Play
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Stage 4
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.

2. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...
School-cutoff strategy.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Not supported by research
Emphasize obedience.

3. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Microsystem
In addition to cognitive structures - gender schema theory uses culture to explain sex-role identity development - Gender schema theory often uses an information-processing approach to describe how the cognitive and learning elements of the system wo
Identification.

4. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.
Confusing appearance and reality.
transductive reasoning
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.

5. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
A scale error
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
A performance orientation.
Stage 4

6. 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
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Computer.
Compensation.
Enabling interactions

7. A male's first ejaculation is called...
Financial recession.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Spermarche.
Stage 4

8. The school-cutoff strategy helps researchers to...

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9. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
Compensation.
Gay and lesbian parents
Socialization.
puberty

10. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Self-regulatory capacity.
stereotypes
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'

11. __________ 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.
Apprenticeship
Social intelligence.
more
Masturbation

12. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
Flynn effect.
. the social goal
Masturbation
Skipping.

13. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
Decrease in efficiency
Socioeconomic status.
. saturated self.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.

14. 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?
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Cultural socialization
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Moratorium

15. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Dyslexia.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children

16. 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...
Internalizing problems.
Experience sampling method.
Decision making
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

17. When talking about their sexual debut -...
Thought processes.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
When parents are not getting along
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

18. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Thought processes.
Increases; decreases
In addition to cognitive structures - gender schema theory uses culture to explain sex-role identity development - Gender schema theory often uses an information-processing approach to describe how the cognitive and learning elements of the system wo

19. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Prosocial behavior
Multiple intelligences.
Improvement in social status
. the social goal

20. A child's ability to recognize that two rows of pennies each with the same number of pennies have the same number of pennies when one row of pennies is longer than the other is called...
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Internalizing problems.
Formal operations.
Conservation.

21. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...
An entity model of intelligence.
Skipping.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Spermarche.

22. In Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning - at which level does reasoning require people to go beyond the existing social conventions to consider more abstract principles of right and wrong?
Postconventional level
Plan ahead.
Script.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence

23. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
Mental operations.
A performance orientation.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.

24. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Conservation.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Increases; decreases

25. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
Stage 4
Internalizing problems.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Moratorium

26. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Inability to categorize objects
Moratorium
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.

27. Kohlberg's process of sex-role development mostly closely follows...

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28. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
to be enrolled in preschool
The model does not include a morality of care.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
When parents are not getting along

29. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...
Decoding.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Socialization.
Instrumental aggression.

30. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Puberty.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.

31. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
The human papillomavirus.
Internalizing problems.
Autobiographical memory.
When parents are not getting along

32. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Chlamydia
Compensation.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

33. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
more
Risky and potentially harmful.
A. more wooden buttons.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'

34. Whose theory of adolescent development believed that adolescence is the consequence of evolutionary processes?
Piaget
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Spermarche.
Mental operations.

35. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...
Skipping.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.

36. Which view of moral development suggests that children acquire a sense of What is right and wrong from internalizing the moral standards of their parents?
. psychodynamic view
The Oedipus complex.
. Decoding
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.

37. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Improvement in social status
Creative arts
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
The survival goal.

38. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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39. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?
Agility.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Improvement in social status
An infusion of pubertal hormones

40. 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...
Gina - an early-maturing female
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Personal distress
Sensory register

41. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Sociodramatic play.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Personal distress

42. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Higher levels of intelligence
Identification through differentiation
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.

43. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Decrease in efficiency
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Puberty.
Stage 4

44. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Social and emotional development.
Multiple intelligences.
Internalizing problems.

45. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
Puberty.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Inability to categorize objects

46. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Emotional climate of family
Kitchen.
Social interaction
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy

47. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Higher levels of intelligence
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Decision making
transductive reasoning

48. 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...
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Kitchen.
At risk for obesity.
direct instruction - Play

49. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Cultural socialization
support emotion and security needs.
Prevention science.

50. In terms of sleep - adolescents...
Identity assumption
Need about 8 hours.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Computer.