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Human Development - HDFC

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1. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
Theory of mind.
Puberty.
Flynn effect.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.

2. 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?
Uneven and variable
puberty
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
. psychodynamic view

3. 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.
Socioeconomic status.
Identity formation
more
Genetic and environmental factors.

4. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
Specific learning disabilities.
Chlamydia
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
positive emotions

5. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
A scale error
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Emerging adulthood.
Conservation.

6. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
The Oedipus complex.
Stage 4
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
puberty

7. 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...
Not supported by research
Reciprocal teaching.
Experience sampling method.
. the social goal

8. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
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
Multiple intelligences.
Hypothetical-deductive 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.

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

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10. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Computer.
Identification.
Specific learning disabilities.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

11. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
Metamemory.
Decoding.
Disciplinarian
Genetic and environmental factors.

12. Not a protective factor
Identification through differentiation
Exosystem.
Financial recession.
Puberty.

13. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

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14. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Slower
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
stereotypes
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other

15. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
When parents are not getting along
The drawer in the in kitchen
Prevention science.

16. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?
At risk for obesity.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Stage 4
. children older than seven years of age

17. In which stage of forming a sexual minority development would an individual who has had homosexual experiences and recognizes that they prefer sexual relations with members of their own sex but do not openly acknowledge their preference be?
Foreclosure.
Identity assumption
Multiple intelligences.
Decoding.

18. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Self-regulatory capacity.
Thought processes.
Enabling interactions
positive emotions

19. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
Sociodramatic play
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Realistic mathematics education.
Gay and lesbian parents

20. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
slowly
The model does not include a morality of care.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'

21. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Foreclosure.
Authoritarian
Decreases; remains the same

22. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Cultural socialization
Auxiliary hair appears
Microsystem

23. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
Social interaction
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Authoritarian
Sociodramatic play

24. Alfred Binet is known for creating...
Emerging adulthood.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Social and emotional development.

25. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
support emotion and security needs.
Flynn effect.

26. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
Theory of mind.
Puberty.
Violence
Egocentrism

27. In Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning - at which level does reasoning require people to go beyond the existing social conventions to consider more abstract principles of right and wrong?
Postconventional level
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
positive emotions
Violence

28. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
controlling conflict within a social group.
transductive reasoning
Gina - an early-maturing female
Personality formation

29. A male's first ejaculation is called...
Not supported by research
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Disciplinarian
Spermarche.

30. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?
Auxiliary hair appears
The drawer in the in kitchen
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Disciplinarian

31. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
More
Motor drive

32. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
Conservation.
Autobiographical memory.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.

33. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
support emotion and security needs.
Theory of mind.
Social intelligence.
Deviancy in adolescence.

34. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
Foreclosure.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.

35. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
The Oedipus complex.
Apprenticeship
Specific learning disabilities.

36. 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?
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Formal operations
Identity integration
Chlamydia

37. Cross-cultural research on the effects of schooling suggests that schooling...
. psychodynamic view
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Auxiliary hair appears
slowly

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

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39. Research on parent-adolescent relationships suggests that a great deal of conflict arises because of differences in opinion about the boundaries between which two social domains?
Personal and social conventional
Decoding.
Identity assumption
Emotional climate of family

40. 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...
Decreases; remains the same
Elaboration.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Autobiographical memory.

41. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
Theory of mind.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Identity formation
The model does not include a morality of care.

42. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
Personality formation
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Kitchen.
At risk for obesity.

43. 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...
more
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Uneven and variable
Conservation.

44. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
Improvement in social status
Identification through differentiation
Elaboration.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children

45. 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...
A. more wooden buttons.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
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.

46. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...
Computer.
. saturated self.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.

47. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...
Instrumental aggression.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Socioeconomic status.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.

48. Piaget believed that the greatest limitation to young children's thinking was...
Empathy
Transductivity.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Mental operations.

49. 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...
Sociodramatic play
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Metamemory.
Compensation.

50. 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
Compensation.
Empathy
When parents are not getting along
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.