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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Metamemory.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
The model does not include a morality of care.

2. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
controlling conflict within a social group.
Piaget
. psychodynamic view
Personal and social conventional

3. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
The model does not include a morality of care.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Culture-sensitive instruction.
positive emotions

4. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
Rehearsal.
Privileged domains.
Social intelligence.
More rigid

5. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Egocentrism
Plan ahead.
The survival goal.

6. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
A. more wooden buttons.
Moratorium
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

7. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Piaget
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Emotional climate of family

8. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Social and emotional development.
Multiple intelligences.
Compensation.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.

9. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
Spermarche.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Having extended family involved in their lives.
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.

10. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Deviancy in adolescence.
puberty
Social intelligence.

11. According to Piaget -...
A. more wooden buttons.
Prosocial behavior
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence

12. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
Higher levels of intelligence
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Script.
throw a ball overhand.

13. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Compensation.
Social intelligence.
slowly

14. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
. psychodynamic view
Transductivity.
Violence
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.

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

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16. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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17. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...
Violence
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
An entity model of intelligence.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

18. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...
Social interaction
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

19. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?
Computer.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
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.

20. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
positive emotions
Moratorium
Interdependence
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.

21. 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...
. saturated self.
Identification through differentiation
Financial recession.
Conservation.

22. Which of the following categories of racial socialization messages appears to be associated with stronger cognitive abilities and fewer behavior problems among African-American children?
Violence
Improvement in social status
Cultural socialization
Spermarche.

23. 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?
stereotypes
Theory theory
Personality formation
direct instruction - Play

24. Cross-cultural research on the effects of schooling suggests that schooling...
Theory theory
Elaboration.
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
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.

25. Authoritative parents are...
Prevention science.
Moratorium
Privileged domains.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children

26. The memory strategy that involves making connections between two or more things to be remembered is called...
Formal operations
Theory of mind.
Elaboration.
Emotional climate of family

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?
Metamemory.
Postconventional level
Sociodramatic play.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.

28. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
direct instruction - Play
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.

29. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
Identification through differentiation
controlling conflict within a social group.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
School-cutoff strategy.

30. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
Multiple intelligences.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Social and emotional development.
support emotion and security needs.

31. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...
clique
Conservation.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Social and emotional development.

32. 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?
Conservation.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
. psychodynamic view

33. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?
Gina - an early-maturing female
Gay and lesbian parents
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Confusing appearance and reality.

34. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
Decrease in efficiency
Empathy
Identification.
Genetic and environmental factors.

35. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
more
The model does not include a morality of care.
Biological maturation.

36. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'
Specific learning disabilities.
Sensory register
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence

37. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
Differential reinforcement
Transductivity.
stereotypes
Identity formation

38. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?
Plan ahead.
Sociodramatic play
Auxiliary hair appears
Thought processes.

39. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
Auxiliary hair appears
Deviancy in adolescence.
transductive reasoning
Puberty.

40. 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...
. psychodynamic view
Sensory register
Risky and potentially harmful.
Sociodramatic play.

41. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
clique
direct instruction - Play
Exosystem.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.

42. A primary sex characteristic...
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Uterus growth.

43. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Rehearsal.
puberty
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.

44. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
slowly
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Moratorium
Independent.

45. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Flynn effect.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Uneven and variable

46. The use of meaningful activities - supporting basic skills - and employing mathematical models in the learning of math are components of...
Realistic mathematics education.
puberty
An entity model of intelligence.
Privileged domains.

47. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...
Moratorium
Thought processes.
Higher levels of intelligence
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'

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

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49. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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50. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
The model does not include a morality of care.