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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
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Personal distress
controlling conflict within a social group.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.

2. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...
Formal operations
slowly
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Interdependence

3. Adolescent ethnic identity formation is not strong when...
Exosystem.
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Identity integration
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate

4. 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...
. children older than seven years of age
Emphasize obedience.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

5. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
Effortful control.
Internalizing problems.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Social interaction

6. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Homophily.
Identity assumption
Foreclosure.
Stage 4

7. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Specific learning disabilities.
12 to 15 hours
Slower
Mental operations.

8. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
Postconventional level
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
At risk for obesity.

9. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
The ovaries and the testes.
A. more wooden buttons.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
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

10. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
Script.
Auxiliary hair appears
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'

11. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Having extended family involved in their lives.
. children older than seven years of age
Emotional climate of family

12. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
The model does not include a morality of care.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.

13. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...
Empathy
Not supported by research
School-cutoff strategy.
Socioeconomic status.

14. A male's first ejaculation is called...
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Social interaction
Spermarche.
Apprenticeship

15. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
Socioeconomic status.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Postconventional level
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16. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Formal operations
Experience sampling method.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks

17. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Formal operations
The drawer in the in kitchen
Agility.

18. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
Creative arts
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Uneven and variable
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children

19. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...
Confusing appearance and reality.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Personality formation
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning

20. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
Emerging adulthood.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Social and emotional development.
Stage 4

21. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...
Multiple intelligences.
Differential reinforcement
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Apprenticeship

22. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
Script.
Piaget
The human papillomavirus.
Personal and social conventional

23. Parents who insist that their adolescent dress in a socially appropriate way is operating from the boundaries of ____________; while an adolescent who insists that dress is a matter of personal choice are operating from the boundaries of ____________
Independent.
Creative arts
Cultural socialization
Social conventional; personal

24. Piaget believed that the greatest limitation to young children's thinking was...
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Transductivity.
The Oedipus complex.

25. How many hours of sleep in a 24-hour period should a child between the ages of 2 and 5 get?
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
An entity model of intelligence.
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.
12 to 15 hours

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

27. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Puberty.
The ovaries and the testes.
Chlamydia
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.

28. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
A performance orientation.
Confusing appearance and reality.

29. 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?
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Postconventional level
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Compensation.

30. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.

31. Research in which participants carry electronic pagers that beep at random intervals - signaling that they need to fill out a brief report on their current feelings is called...
Experience sampling method.
Decreases; remains the same
Puberty.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

32. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
Piaget
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Genetic and environmental factors.

33. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Social interaction
Auxiliary hair appears
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.

34. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
Identity formation
Homophily.
Relational aggression
A. more wooden buttons.

35. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
Gay and lesbian parents
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Experience sampling method.
to be enrolled in preschool

36. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
Specific learning disabilities.
Empathy
Need about 8 hours.
stereotypes

37. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Social and emotional development.
Formal operations.
Financial recession.
Violence

38. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Compensation.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.

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?
Identity formation
Personal and social conventional
Identity assumption
Formal operations.

40. A primary sex characteristic...
Transductivity.
Uterus growth.
Autobiographical memory.
Gina - an early-maturing female

41. Research on young children demonstrates that high levels of ______________ measured at the beginning of a year is associated with high levels of self-regulation when measured later in the same year.
Transductivity.
When parents are not getting along
Sociodramatic play
Piaget

42. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
The human papillomavirus.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
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43. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...
Creative arts
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Emphasize obedience.
Instrumental aggression.

44. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
Identification.
Privileged domains.
Auxiliary hair appears
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

45. 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...
The Oedipus complex.
Deviancy in adolescence.
Internalizing problems.
Disciplinarian

46. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
Sociodramatic play
. saturated self.
School-cutoff strategy.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.

47. According to Piaget -...
A performance orientation.
When parents are not getting along
controlling conflict within a social group.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.

48. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
Confusing appearance and reality.
Foreclosure.
Social intelligence.
Microsystem

49. 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...
Emphasize obedience.
Kitchen.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
clique

50. 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.
Violence
Biological maturation.
School-cutoff strategy.