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Human Development - HDFC

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1. 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?
direct instruction - Play
Privileged domains.
Social intelligence.
Emerging adulthood.

2. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...
Sociodramatic play.
12 to 15 hours
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.

3. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
Microsystem
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Authoritative

4. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
At risk for obesity.
Independent.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Identity assumption

5. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
Motor drive
School-cutoff strategy.
Violence
Auxiliary hair appears

6. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
An entity model of intelligence.
to be enrolled in preschool
Conservation.

7. 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...
Postconventional level
Piaget
Reciprocal teaching.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.

8. In this stage of sexual identity development are sexual-minority individuals who have come to terms with their homosexuality and are 'out' in their communities?
Identity integration
Sociodramatic play
Socialization.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

9. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
Decrease in efficiency
Creative arts
Interdependence
Prevention science.

10. Research on the use of interactive media suggests that boys who play computer games often spend _________ time with their friends outside of school than boys who spend little to no time playing on the computer.
Masturbation
more
. children older than seven years of age
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.

11. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Cultural socialization
Privileged domains.

12. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Specific learning disabilities.
More rigid
Sociodramatic play.

13. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Motor drive
Metamemory.
Mental operations.
Script.

14. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes
More rigid
Homophily.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Cultural socialization

15. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...
Thought processes.
Social and emotional development.
controlling conflict within a social group.
Compensation.

16. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
Kitchen.
Not supported by research
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.

17. In terms of sleep - adolescents...
Need about 8 hours.
Moratorium
Uneven and variable
throw a ball overhand.

18. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
When parents are not getting along
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.

19. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Multiple intelligences.
Socialization.
Skipping.
Personality formation

20. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?
Inability to categorize objects
Social and emotional development.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.

21. How many hours of sleep in a 24-hour period should a child between the ages of 2 and 5 get?
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
12 to 15 hours
Independent.
When parents are not getting along

22. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Microsystem
Emotional climate of family
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Relational aggression

23. 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.
throw a ball overhand.
Social interaction
An infusion of pubertal hormones

24. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
Homophily.
Reciprocal teaching.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Interdependence

25. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Internalizing problems.
Socialization.
Gina - an early-maturing female
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

26. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
Interdependence
More
Conservation.
Culture-sensitive instruction.

27. One of the key aspects of Piaget's formal operations involves...
Motor drive
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
A performance orientation.

28. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
Experience sampling method.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Formal operations

29. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that
Biological maturation.
Identity assumption
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.

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

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31. 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...
Autobiographical memory.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Decoding.

32. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...
Social conventional; personal
Me-self
Plan ahead.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.

33. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Privileged domains.

34. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?
Egocentrism
Creative arts
A scale error
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

35. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
A performance orientation.
Decision making
Identity integration

36. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Disciplinarian
Creative arts
Moratorium
Increases; decreases

37. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Instrumental aggression.
stereotypes
A. more wooden buttons.

38. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...
Metamemory.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Creative arts
Internalizing problems.

39. 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
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
A. more wooden buttons.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Compensation.

40. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...
Theory of mind.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Differential reinforcement
Neighborhood physical disorder.

41. 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?
Sociodramatic play.
Decoding.
Postconventional level
slowly

42. Authoritarian
The model does not include a morality of care.
. psychodynamic view
Social and emotional development.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks

43. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
At risk for obesity.
Social and emotional development.
Flynn effect.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.

44. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
Increases
Microsystem
Not supported by research
puberty

45. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
Transductivity.
Formal operations.
Financial recession.
throw a ball overhand.

46. 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
Identity assumption
Autobiographical memory.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

47. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Improvement in social status

48. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
Social intelligence.
throw a ball overhand.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

49. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Decoding.
Theory theory

50. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Decoding.
Chlamydia
Sensory register
Independent.