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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
Need about 8 hours.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
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
Interdependence

2. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...
Conservation.
Conservation.
Mental operations.
Plan ahead.

3. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
Conservation.
Identification.
Personality formation
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.

4. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
At risk for obesity.
Relational aggression
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Internalizing problems.

5. Which of the following statements about the development of the brain during early childhood is TRUE?

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6. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Compensation.
Motor drive
Transductivity.

7. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Flynn effect.
Increases

8. 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?
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Postconventional level
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.

9. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Formal operations
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Decision making
Deviancy in adolescence.

10. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Multiple intelligences.
Motor drive
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

11. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...
Personality formation
Differential reinforcement
slowly
Metamemory.

12. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Puberty.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Disciplinarian

13. __________ can be characterized as a form of activity that is intermediate between the implicit socialization of everyday family life and the explicit teaching of formal education.
Theory theory
Cultural socialization
direct instruction - Play
Apprenticeship

14. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Emphasize obedience.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks

15. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
Confusing appearance and reality.
A performance orientation.
Cultural socialization
Identification.

16. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'
Metamemory.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Autobiographical memory.
Increases

17. A primary sex characteristic...
Uterus growth.
direct instruction - Play
Puberty.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.

18. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
Rehearsal.
Cultural socialization
Compensation.
Personality formation

19. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Identification through differentiation
transductive reasoning
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.

20. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
Realistic mathematics education.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Identity formation
More

21. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
clique
More

22. The extent to which friends are similar to one another is referred to as...
Personal distress
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Higher levels of intelligence
Homophily.

23. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Increases; decreases
Agility.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.

24. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
. Decoding
Me-self
Empathy

25. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Kitchen.
Prosocial behavior
Instrumental aggression.

26. The fear - guilt - and conflict stirred up by a boy's desire to kill his father and live with his mother taking his father's place is known as...
When parents are not getting along
Biological maturation.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
The Oedipus complex.

27. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
Deviancy in adolescence.
Prosocial behavior
Cultural socialization
Identification through differentiation

28. 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...
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Rehearsal.
Not supported by research
Autobiographical memory.

29. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

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30. Authoritarian
Self-regulatory capacity.
Prevention science.
Social and emotional development.
Improvement in social status

31. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
Flynn effect.
Conservation.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

32. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.
. the social goal
Financial recession.
Authoritative
When parents are not getting along

33. 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.
Theory of mind.
A scale error
more
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other

34. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
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
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Formal operations.
Genetic and environmental factors.

35. 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...
Specific learning disabilities.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Identification.
Stage 4

36. According to Piaget -...
Agility.
Decreases; remains the same
Slower
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.

37. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
Enabling interactions
Masturbation
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
positive emotions

38. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Privileged domains.
Slower
Biological maturation.
Sociodramatic play.

39. NOT characteristic of school problems?
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Theory theory
Cultural socialization
Sociodramatic play.

40. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
Theory of mind.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Social and emotional development.
Computer.

41. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Puberty.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Identification.

42. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Emotional climate of family
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
At risk for obesity.
Having extended family involved in their lives.

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

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44. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Social interaction
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children

45. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Motor drive
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.

46. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Personal distress
controlling conflict within a social group.

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

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48. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Decreases; remains the same
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Uneven and variable
Piaget

49. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
more
An entity model of intelligence.
Computer.
Self-regulatory capacity.

50. If a 5-year-old watches a little girl put a piece of candy into a drawer in the kitchen and then watches the girl's mother move the piece of candy to the refrigerator without the little girl knowing - where will the 5-year-old say the little girl wil
The drawer in the in kitchen
direct instruction - Play
Metamemory.
Social intelligence.