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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Personal and social conventional
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Instrumental aggression.
Biological maturation.

2. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Computer.
Risky and potentially harmful.
The Oedipus complex.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

3. Not a way schooling differs from traditional apprenticeship training?

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4. 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...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Sensory register
Social intelligence.
Homophily.

5. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
A scale error
Computer.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Effortful control.

6. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...
Moratorium
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

7. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
Risky and potentially harmful.
Confusing appearance and reality.
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
Prevention science.

8. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
Increases
Rehearsal.
At risk for obesity.
An infusion of pubertal hormones

9. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Conservation.
Self-regulatory capacity.

10. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Decoding.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
When parents are not getting along

11. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Metamemory.
Mental operations.
Apprenticeship
Cultural socialization

12. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
A scale error
direct instruction - Play

13. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
Socioeconomic status.
Need about 8 hours.
Violence
Slower

14. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
Identity formation
Postconventional level
Neighborhood physical disorder.
The human papillomavirus.

15. Which of the following statements about children's experience with interactive media is NOT true?

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16. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Emphasize obedience.
When parents are not getting along
Moratorium
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.

17. 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.
Sociodramatic play
Agility.
Plan ahead.
12 to 15 hours

18. Five-year-old Jacob is playing with his grandmother's buttons. He counts eight wooden buttons and three plastic buttons. When his grandmother asks Jacob if he has more wooden buttons or more buttons - he will most likely indicate that there are...
. Decoding
A. more wooden buttons.
Specific learning disabilities.
Genetic and environmental factors.

19. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
Identification.
Script.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
. saturated self.

20. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...
to be enrolled in preschool
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
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
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

21. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
. Decoding
Formal operations.
The ovaries and the testes.

22. In terms of sleep - adolescents...
Need about 8 hours.
Thought processes.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Decreases; remains the same

23. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
Specific learning disabilities.
Social interaction
Increases; decreases
Risky and potentially harmful.

24. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Decoding.
Egocentrism
Flynn effect.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate

25. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
clique
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Compensation.
Experience sampling method.

26. 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...
support emotion and security needs.
Cultural socialization
Identity formation
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

27. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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28. Cross-cultural research on the effects of schooling suggests that schooling...
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
. the social goal
Cultural socialization
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.

29. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Internalizing problems.
Uneven and variable
Creative arts
Foreclosure.

30. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.
When parents are not getting along
Confusing appearance and reality.
Gina - an early-maturing female
Personality formation

31. The use of meaningful activities - supporting basic skills - and employing mathematical models in the learning of math are components of...
Realistic mathematics education.
throw a ball overhand.
Sociodramatic 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

32. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...
School-cutoff strategy.
. saturated self.
An entity model of intelligence.
to be enrolled in preschool

33. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Social conventional; personal
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.

34. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Authoritarian
Agility.
Personal distress
Relational aggression

35. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes
More rigid
. saturated self.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Agility.

36. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Emerging adulthood.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

37. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
The survival goal.
An entity model of intelligence.

38. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
Confusing appearance and reality.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Exosystem.
Social and emotional development.

39. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...
Decreases; remains the same
Increases
throw a ball overhand.
Neighborhood physical disorder.

40. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Enabling interactions
Theory theory
Slower
Privileged domains.

41. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
. psychodynamic view
The model does not include a morality of care.
Privileged domains.
Emotional climate of family

42. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
Experience sampling method.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Formal operations
Exosystem.

43. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Socialization.

44. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
Cultural socialization
Socialization.
Computer.
Internalizing problems.

45. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
throw a ball overhand.
At risk for obesity.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.

46. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...
When parents are not getting along
Postconventional level
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Microsystem

47. having extended family involved in their lives.
When parents are not getting along
The survival goal.
Identity assumption
Differential reinforcement

48. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...
12 to 15 hours
Skipping.
Foreclosure.
The survival goal.

49. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Chlamydia
Compensation.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.

50. Alfred Binet is known for creating...
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
12 to 15 hours
Inability to categorize objects
support emotion and security needs.