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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...
Decreases; remains the same
Specific learning disabilities.
Instrumental aggression.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

2. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
Autobiographical memory.
Identity integration
Multiple intelligences.
The human papillomavirus.

3. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
Higher levels of intelligence
Gina - an early-maturing female
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.

4. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
clique
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Uneven and variable
Culture-sensitive instruction.

5. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
Skipping.
Empathy
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.

6. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Higher levels of intelligence
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Social interaction
Slower

7. NOT characteristic of school problems?
controlling conflict within a social group.
Internalizing problems.
Social interaction
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.

8. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...
positive emotions
Relational aggression
Skipping.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.

9. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Social conventional; personal
Financial recession.
Authoritative
Independent.

10. 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...
Transductivity.
transductive reasoning
stereotypes
Sensory register

11. 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?
positive emotions
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Theory theory
Authoritarian

12. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?
Exosystem.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Disciplinarian

13. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Reciprocal teaching.
Uterus growth.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

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

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15. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Sociodramatic play
Flynn effect.
Computer.

16. 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.
Multiple intelligences.
Elaboration.
A scale error

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

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18. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Slower
Foreclosure.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

19. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Decrease in efficiency
Flynn effect.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Auxiliary hair appears

20. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
Creative arts
Formal operations
At risk for obesity.
12 to 15 hours

21. Authoritarian
At risk for obesity.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
More
Social and emotional development.

22. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
clique
Identification through differentiation
Self-regulatory capacity.
Rehearsal.

23. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Piaget
. Decoding
Masturbation

24. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
Postconventional level
The model does not include a morality of care.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Flynn effect.

25. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
clique
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Internalizing problems.

26. Various studies of the influence of television violence on children's behavior have found...
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Differential reinforcement
stereotypes
Empathy

27. The fear - guilt - and conflict stirred up by a boy's desire to kill his father and live with his mother taking his father's place is known as...
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Not supported by research
Compensation.
The Oedipus complex.

28. 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
Relational aggression
Compensation.
Decision making
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.

29. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
support emotion and security needs.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.

30. 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
Genetic and environmental factors.
Disciplinarian
Gina - an early-maturing female

31. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...
Uneven and variable
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
A. more wooden buttons.
Differential reinforcement

32. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
. saturated self.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.

33. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Deviancy in adolescence.
Specific learning disabilities.
12 to 15 hours

34. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
Prevention science.
Spermarche.
. the social goal
Effortful control.

35. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
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
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Emerging adulthood.

36. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
Emotional climate of family
Sociodramatic play.
Script.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

37. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.
Dyslexia.
Personality formation
Experience sampling method.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

38. Cross-cultural research on the effects of schooling suggests that schooling...
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Emerging adulthood.
Conservation.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.

39. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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40. In the reciprocal-teaching approach...
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
. saturated self.
Kitchen.

41. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
Gay and lesbian parents
Effortful control.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
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.

42. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Decoding.
positive emotions
Increases
Transductivity.

43. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
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.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Identity formation
Increases

44. Which of the following statements about the development of the brain during early childhood is TRUE?

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45. 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.
Interdependence
The ovaries and the testes.
Increases
Personal and social conventional

46. In which stage of forming a sexual minority development would an individual who has had homosexual experiences and recognizes that they prefer sexual relations with members of their own sex but do not openly acknowledge their preference be?
Chlamydia
Identity assumption
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Dyslexia.

47. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.
Authoritarian
. the social goal
Egocentrism
clique

48. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Kitchen.
Rehearsal.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.

49. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...
Effortful control.
Mental operations.
Sociodramatic play.
The Oedipus complex.

50. Piaget believed that the greatest limitation to young children's thinking was...
Skipping.
Mental operations.
controlling conflict within a social group.
Transductivity.