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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Findings from the research of Kenneth and Mamie Clark has led psychologists to conclude that...






2. Cross-cultural research on the effects of schooling suggests that schooling...






3. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.






4. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?






5. Research on fathers suggests that...






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






7. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...






8. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...






9. According to Piaget -...






10. 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?






11. 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...






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






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






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






15. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...






16. When three-year-old children are told a story about a little boy who puts candy in a drawer - leaves the room - and doesn't see when his mother then moves the candy into the kitchen - they predict the boy will look for the candy in the...






17. 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.






18. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...






19. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...






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






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






22. 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






23. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...






24. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...






25. A child's ability to recognize that two rows of pennies each with the same number of pennies have the same number of pennies when one row of pennies is longer than the other is called...






26. Authoritarian






27. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...






28. Similarity between friends can contribute to...






29. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...






30. 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...






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






32. 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.






33. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.






34. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. In the reciprocal-teaching approach...






43. 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...






44. Studies comparing schooled and nonschooled students have demonstrated that...






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

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46. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?






47. 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...






48. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?






49. Which approach does the idea that theory of mind develops from primitive theories of how the world works that are present at birth and modified through experience in the world follow?






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

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