Test your basic knowledge |

Human Development - HDFC

Subject : teaching

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Plan ahead.
Skipping.
Motor drive
Moratorium

2. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
Social and emotional development.
Personal distress
. saturated self.
Culture-sensitive instruction.

3. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Authoritative
Social and emotional development.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Higher levels of intelligence

4. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
direct instruction - Play
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

5. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
Social interaction
Plan ahead.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.

6. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
Puberty.
Personality formation
Social conventional; personal
Interdependence

7. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
. the social goal
Theory of mind.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
support emotion and security needs.

8. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Decoding.
Social and emotional development.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Emotional climate of family

9. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Creative arts
Internalizing problems.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.

10. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Flynn effect.
Egocentrism
Microsystem
Confusing appearance and reality.

11. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
support emotion and security needs.
Creative arts
Internalizing problems.
Dyslexia.

12. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...
Social conventional; personal
A. more wooden buttons.
Agility.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.

13. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Thought processes.
Biological maturation.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.

14. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
Prevention science.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Thought processes.
stereotypes

15. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Social interaction

16. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
At risk for obesity.
Privileged domains.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

17. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...
The ovaries and the testes.
Puberty.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Thought processes.

18. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
When parents are not getting along
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
throw a ball overhand.

19. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Increases; decreases
Puberty.
More rigid

20. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Personality formation
Self-regulatory capacity.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.

21. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Emotional climate of family
Prevention science.
Realistic mathematics education.

22. __________ can be characterized as a form of activity that is intermediate between the implicit socialization of everyday family life and the explicit teaching of formal education.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Identity formation
Self-regulatory capacity.
Apprenticeship

23. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Theory theory
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.
transductive reasoning

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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

25. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?
. the social goal
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Egocentrism
Gay and lesbian parents

26. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
Experience sampling method.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Confusing appearance and reality.
Culture-sensitive instruction.

27. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
Privileged domains.
Differential reinforcement
. saturated self.
Slower

28. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...
The survival goal.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Gina - an early-maturing female
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.

29. 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...
Metamemory.
Experience sampling method.
Compensation.
Sensory register

30. 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...
Authoritative
Higher levels of intelligence
Emphasize obedience.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.

31. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
Conservation.
clique
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

32. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
Identity formation
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
A scale error
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.

33. Parents who insist that their adolescent dress in a socially appropriate way is operating from the boundaries of ____________; while an adolescent who insists that dress is a matter of personal choice are operating from the boundaries of ____________
Improvement in social status
Emotional climate of family
Social conventional; personal
School-cutoff strategy.

34. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...
Effortful control.
Apprenticeship
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Prosocial behavior

35. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.
Decreases; remains the same
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Cultural socialization
Biological maturation.

36. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
More
controlling conflict within a social group.
clique
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.

37. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
Apprenticeship
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Puberty.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.

38. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
puberty
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
to be enrolled in preschool
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks

39. The extent to which friends are similar to one another is referred to as...
Homophily.
Spermarche.
puberty
More rigid

40. 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.
throw a ball overhand.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Having extended family involved in their lives.

41. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Moratorium
Socialization.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.

42. A child who says - 'The liquid is higher - but the glass is thinner -' when asked the reason for their answer to a task of conservation is demonstrating...
Compensation.
More
Personality formation
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

43. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Independent.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Formal operations
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate

44. The use of meaningful activities - supporting basic skills - and employing mathematical models in the learning of math are components of...
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Realistic mathematics education.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Plan ahead.

45. 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...
Experience sampling method.
Compensation.
Social interaction
Uterus growth.

46. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
puberty
The Oedipus complex.
Computer.

47. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
Microsystem
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
The human papillomavirus.
support emotion and security needs.

48. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

49. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Compensation.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Internalizing problems.
Gina - an early-maturing female

50. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Foreclosure.
Instrumental aggression.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Formal operations