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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.






2. Not considered to be a privileged domain?






3. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...






4. The memory strategy that involves making connections between two or more things to be remembered is called...






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






6. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...






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






8. A male's first ejaculation is called...






9. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...






10. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.






11. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.






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






13. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...






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

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15. Research on young children demonstrates that high levels of ______________ measured at the beginning of a year is associated with high levels of self-regulation when measured later in the same year.






16. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...






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






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






19. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?






20. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?






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






22. 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...






23. Whose theory of adolescent development believed that adolescence is the consequence of evolutionary processes?






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






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






26. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...






27. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?






28. The most common STI in the U.S. is...






29. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...






30. Not the result of the maturation of the frontal lobe?






31. In terms of sleep - adolescents...






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






33. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?






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






35. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...






36. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?






37. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?






38. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...






39. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.






40. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...






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






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






43. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'






44. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...






45. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?






46. The term gonads refers to...






47. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.






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






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






50. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...