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Human Development - HDFC
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
At risk for obesity.
Financial recession.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
. the social goal
2. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Need about 8 hours.
Theory of mind.
Compensation.
3. NOT characteristic of school problems?
A scale error
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Creative arts
support emotion and security needs.
4. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?
Inability to categorize objects
Improvement in social status
Homophily.
direct instruction - Play
5. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?
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6. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
Instrumental aggression.
A performance orientation.
Uneven and variable
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
7. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...
Conservation.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Metamemory.
Emerging adulthood.
8. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
Elaboration.
direct instruction - Play
Exosystem.
clique
9. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
support emotion and security needs.
. psychodynamic view
Identity formation
Uterus growth.
10. A child sharing her apple slice with another child is an example of...
Prosocial behavior
Autobiographical memory.
Stage 4
throw a ball overhand.
11. Not a way schooling differs from traditional apprenticeship training?
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12. 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...
Conservation.
Apprenticeship
Kitchen.
Gina - an early-maturing female
13. 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.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
more
puberty
14. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?
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15. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
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.
transductive reasoning
Uneven and variable
Auxiliary hair appears
16. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Decision making
Increases; decreases
Culture-sensitive instruction.
17. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
Postconventional level
Cultural socialization
Creative arts
Deviancy in adolescence.
18. In the reciprocal-teaching approach...
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
The Oedipus complex.
Biological maturation.
19. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
Formal operations
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
throw a ball overhand.
Identity formation
20. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Socioeconomic status.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
21. 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?
Cultural socialization
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Differential reinforcement
stereotypes
22. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
Puberty.
Effortful control.
Internalizing problems.
The drawer in the in kitchen
23. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
More rigid
Identification.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Self-regulatory capacity.
24. 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...
stereotypes
Compensation.
slowly
Uneven and variable
25. 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...
Microsystem
Theory of mind.
Confusing appearance and reality.
The Oedipus complex.
26. Not the result of the maturation of the frontal lobe?
Financial recession.
Decoding.
Higher levels of intelligence
Identification.
27. Kohlberg's process of sex-role development mostly closely follows...
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28. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Microsystem
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
29. 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
A scale error
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Compensation.
Decreases; remains the same
30. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes
More rigid
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Gay and lesbian parents
Transductivity.
31. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
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 social goal
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Social interaction
32. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
to be enrolled in preschool
Risky and potentially harmful.
Identity assumption
controlling conflict within a social group.
33. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
At risk for obesity.
34. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Financial recession.
Internalizing problems.
35. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Computer.
. saturated self.
36. When it comes to television - children between the ages of 4 and 5...
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37. 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?
direct instruction - Play
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Risky and potentially harmful.
38. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Cultural socialization
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
throw a ball overhand.
39. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Sociodramatic play.
When parents are not getting along
40. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
Uneven and variable
more
Self-regulatory capacity.
Differential reinforcement
41. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Social interaction
Personality formation
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
42. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
Social interaction
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Identity integration
43. Adolescent ethnic identity formation is not strong when...
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Flynn effect.
12 to 15 hours
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
44. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
to be enrolled in preschool
more
The survival goal.
Socialization.
45. Cross-cultural research on the effects of schooling suggests that schooling...
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
46. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?
Slower
Gina - an early-maturing female
Transductivity.
Stage 4
47. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
Personal and social conventional
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Creative arts
48. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
stereotypes
Self-regulatory capacity.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Biological maturation.
49. Not a protective factor
clique
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Financial recession.
Risky and potentially harmful.
50. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
Microsystem
Creative arts
. children older than seven years of age
Mental operations.