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Human Development - HDFC

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1. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Social and emotional development.

2. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Mental operations.
Identity formation
Sociodramatic play

3. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Instrumental aggression.
Social intelligence.
Personal and social conventional

4. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
stereotypes
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Motor drive

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

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6. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
Sociodramatic play
Effortful control.
Personality formation
Authoritarian

7. 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
throw a ball overhand.
Script.
Realistic mathematics education.

8. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
direct instruction - Play
The model does not include a morality of care.
Violence

9. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Transductivity.
Me-self
Kitchen.

10. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Personal and social conventional
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
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

11. According to Piaget -...
Instrumental aggression.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
. psychodynamic view

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

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13. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Authoritative
Sociodramatic play.
Genetic and environmental factors.

14. A primary sex characteristic...
direct instruction - Play
Uterus growth.
Agility.
Theory theory

15. 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?
Masturbation
direct instruction - Play
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Personality formation

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...
Differential reinforcement
Experience sampling method.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Improvement in social status

17. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
An entity model of intelligence.
Stage 4
stereotypes
Improvement in social status

18. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
Financial recession.
Authoritative
stereotypes
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.

19. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
Theory of mind.
Confusing appearance and reality.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Egocentrism

20. Research on fathers suggests that...
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Emotional climate of family
Confusing appearance and reality.
At risk for obesity.

21. 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...
Sociodramatic play
Dyslexia.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
The Oedipus complex.

22. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?
controlling conflict within a social group.
Internalizing problems.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Stage 4

23. 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...
Social interaction
Emphasize obedience.
Identification through differentiation
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.

24. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
Homophily.
Conservation.
. Decoding
Differential reinforcement

25. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes
More rigid
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Enabling interactions

26. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.
Confusing appearance and reality.
Moratorium
Decreases; remains the same
Creative arts

27. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
Piaget
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Self-regulatory capacity.
The model does not include a morality of care.

28. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Decision making
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Motor drive
Social intelligence.

29. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Thought processes.
Socioeconomic status.
Improvement in social status

30. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Violence
Creative arts

31. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
A scale error
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.

32. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Microsystem
Foreclosure.
Formal operations.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.

33. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Specific learning disabilities.
Stage 4
Personality formation
Emphasize obedience.

34. 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.
Increases
. Decoding
Violence
Plan ahead.

35. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
Gina - an early-maturing female
positive emotions
Sensory register
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

36. NOT characteristic of school problems?
Personal and social conventional
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Inability to categorize objects
Decrease in efficiency

37. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that
Independent.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Cultural socialization
Socioeconomic status.

38. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
Identification through differentiation
Cultural socialization
transductive reasoning
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.

39. Alfred Binet is known for creating...
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Prevention science.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Decrease in efficiency

40. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Decrease in efficiency
Financial recession.
Spermarche.
Autobiographical memory.

41. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Skipping.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
At risk for obesity.
Creative arts

42. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
Prevention science.
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Dyslexia.

43. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?
Conservation.
Auxiliary hair appears
Emotional climate of family
Puberty.

44. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Sociodramatic play.

45. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
Internalizing problems.
Uneven and variable
controlling conflict within a social group.
Decoding.

46. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
puberty
More rigid
. Decoding
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.

47. 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...
School-cutoff strategy.
Experience sampling method.
clique
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

48. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Inability to categorize objects
Slower
Script.

49. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Internalizing problems.
Authoritarian
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Identification.

50. Whose theory of adolescent development believed that adolescence is the consequence of evolutionary processes?
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Piaget
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Social conventional; personal