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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...






2. 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...






3. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...






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






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






6. 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...






7. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...






8. 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?






9. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...






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






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






12. 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






13. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...






14. 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?






15. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation






16. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.






17. The extent to which friends are similar to one another is referred to as...






18. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.






19. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...






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

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21. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?






22. Not the result of the maturation of the frontal lobe?






23. Not a protective factor






24. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?






25. having extended family involved in their lives.






26. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.






27. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...






28. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...






29. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.






30. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...






31. In adolescence - cliques serve to...






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






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

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34. 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...






35. When talking about their sexual debut -...






36. Authoritarian






37. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.






38. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...






39. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'






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






41. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration






42. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?






43. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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44. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...






45. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.






46. 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...






47. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.






48. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...






49. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...






50. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...






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