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Human Development - HDFC

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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...






2. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...






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






4. 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...






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






6. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...






7. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?






8. Studies of poor families suggest that such factors as stress - the dangerous circumstances of daily life in poor areas - and the nature of parents' jobs tend to cause poor parents to...






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






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






11. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration






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






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






14. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that






15. On average - boys are not better than girls at...






16. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...






17. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...






18. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...






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






20. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

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21. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...






22. One of the key aspects of Piaget's formal operations involves...






23. When talking about their sexual debut -...






24. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...






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






26. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?






27. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...






28. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.






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






30. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...






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






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






33. Authoritarian






34. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...






35. In terms of sleep - adolescents...






36. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.






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






38. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?






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






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

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






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






43. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...






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






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

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

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47. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...






48. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...






49. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has






50. 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...