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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Flynn effect.
Autobiographical memory.
Chlamydia
Agility.

2. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Socioeconomic status.
Cultural socialization
Multiple intelligences.
Chlamydia

3. Authoritative parents are...
Internalizing problems.
Social and emotional development.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Cultural socialization

4. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.

5. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
Dyslexia.
puberty
Mental operations.
A scale error

6. In terms of sleep - adolescents...
Need about 8 hours.
. children older than seven years of age
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Formal operations

7. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Confusing appearance and reality.
Autobiographical memory.

8. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
to be enrolled in preschool
puberty
Interdependence

9. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Personal distress
Empathy
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
. the social goal

10. The term gonads refers to...
The ovaries and the testes.
When parents are not getting along
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

11. 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...
Sensory register
Plan ahead.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Apprenticeship

12. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Specific learning disabilities.
Emerging adulthood.

13. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
direct instruction - Play
positive emotions
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Identity integration

14. 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...
Skipping.
Specific learning disabilities.
Conservation.
Spermarche.

15. 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?
clique
More rigid
Privileged domains.
Identity integration

16. 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?
Improvement in social status
Personal and social conventional
Risky and potentially harmful.
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.

17. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Internalizing problems.
Emphasize obedience.
Exosystem.

18. 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 ____________
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
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
Social conventional; personal
. children older than seven years of age

19. A male's first ejaculation is called...
The Oedipus complex.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Spermarche.

20. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
Social intelligence.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
12 to 15 hours
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.

21. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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22. The memory strategy that involves making connections between two or more things to be remembered is called...
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
. Decoding
Elaboration.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.

23. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
more
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Script.

24. A child's ability to recognize that two rows of pennies each with the same number of pennies have the same number of pennies when one row of pennies is longer than the other is called...
Internalizing problems.
Multiple intelligences.
Decreases; remains the same
Conservation.

25. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
. the social goal
Differential reinforcement
Experience sampling method.

26. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?
Identification.
Emerging adulthood.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

27. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?
Auxiliary hair appears
transductive reasoning
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.

28. 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?
Instrumental aggression.
Postconventional level
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.

29. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Me-self
The survival goal.

30. 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...
Emphasize obedience.
Compensation.
Me-self
Differential reinforcement

31. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
Instrumental aggression.
throw a ball overhand.
stereotypes
Socialization.

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

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33. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
Gina - an early-maturing female
Plan ahead.
Me-self
Puberty.

34. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
Chlamydia
An entity model of intelligence.
12 to 15 hours
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.

35. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
Microsystem
support emotion and security needs.
. Decoding
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.

36. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...
Kitchen.
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
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Piaget

37. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
At risk for obesity.
Need about 8 hours.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.

38. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
Dyslexia.
Skipping.
positive emotions
Authoritarian

39. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
Stage 4
Microsystem
Motor drive
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

40. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
Financial recession.
Masturbation
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.

41. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Emotional climate of family

42. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Homophily.
Skipping.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Enabling interactions

43. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Gay and lesbian parents
Conservation.
Culture-sensitive instruction.

44. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Independent.
Decreases; remains the same
Improvement in social status

45. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
Personal and social conventional
Puberty.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Social and emotional development.

46. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
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.
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.
Self-regulatory capacity.

47. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?
Identification.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
. psychodynamic view
Risky and potentially harmful.

48. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.
A. more wooden buttons.
Decreases; remains the same
Identification through differentiation
Prosocial behavior

49. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...
Skipping.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Identity formation
A performance orientation.

50. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Gay and lesbian parents
When parents are not getting along
Decoding.