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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...
Skipping.
Empathy
Me-self
Differential reinforcement

2. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
Puberty.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Computer.

3. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
Prevention science.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
More

4. 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?
direct instruction - Play
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.

5. Studies comparing schooled and nonschooled students have demonstrated that...
Kitchen.
Internalizing problems.
Gina - an early-maturing female
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.

6. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
Social intelligence.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.

7. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.
Decreases; remains the same
Experience sampling method.
More
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.

8. A teacher and a small group of students read silently through segments of text and take turns leading discussion of their meaning. This is an example of...
Reciprocal teaching.
Exosystem.
Uneven and variable
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.

9. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Computer.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.

10. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Cultural socialization
Experience sampling method.
Internalizing problems.
Chlamydia

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

12. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Dyslexia.
Theory of mind.

13. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Masturbation
Rehearsal.

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

15. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
. Decoding
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Cultural socialization
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning

16. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
transductive reasoning
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Identity formation
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.

17. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?
stereotypes
Auxiliary hair appears
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
More

18. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
Puberty.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
positive emotions
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.

19. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
An infusion of pubertal hormones
throw a ball overhand.
support emotion and security needs.
Sociodramatic play

20. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
. Decoding
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Biological maturation.

21. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
puberty
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
. Decoding
Confusing appearance and reality.

22. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Experience sampling method.
Foreclosure.
Internalizing problems.

23. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Not supported by research
Computer.
Compensation.

24. Which view of moral development suggests that children acquire a sense of What is right and wrong from internalizing the moral standards of their parents?
Skipping.
Script.
. psychodynamic view
Inability to categorize objects

25. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Cultural socialization
positive emotions
Relational aggression

26. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
support emotion and security needs.
Formal operations
Decoding.
Compensation.

27. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
Authoritative
Formal operations
Autobiographical memory.
Identity assumption

28. Various studies of the influence of television violence on children's behavior have found...
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
stereotypes
transductive reasoning
Agility.

29. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Experience sampling method.

30. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
to be enrolled in preschool
Slower
Socioeconomic status.
Stage 4

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

32. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
Socioeconomic status.
Realistic mathematics education.
Need about 8 hours.
An entity model of intelligence.

33. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...
Creative arts
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Deviancy in adolescence.

34. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Flynn effect.
Gay and lesbian parents

35. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
The model does not include a morality of care.
Need about 8 hours.
At risk for obesity.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children

36. The school-cutoff strategy helps researchers to...

37. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...
Sociodramatic play.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Kitchen.
The ovaries and the testes.

38. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

39. A child sharing her apple slice with another child is an example of...
Deviancy in adolescence.
Prosocial behavior
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.

40. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...
clique
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
. children older than seven years of age

41. 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
Autobiographical memory.
Internalizing problems.
Realistic mathematics education.

42. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Social intelligence.
Risky and potentially harmful.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.

43. 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...
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Experience sampling method.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.

44. 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...
Emphasize obedience.
Empathy
Socioeconomic status.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.

45. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
throw a ball overhand.
Personal and social conventional
Rehearsal.
transductive reasoning

46. Not a risk factor for child abuse?
Sociodramatic play
Exosystem.
. children older than seven years of age
When parents are not getting along

47. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
A performance orientation.
support emotion and security needs.
An entity model of intelligence.

48. 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?
Theory theory
Sensory register
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Microsystem

49. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Mental operations.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
controlling conflict within a social group.

50. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
. children older than seven years of age
Instrumental aggression.
Foreclosure.
12 to 15 hours