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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Having extended family involved in their lives.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Multiple intelligences.

2. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Piaget
Biological maturation.
Need about 8 hours.

3. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
More
Creative arts
Metamemory.
A. more wooden buttons.

4. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Theory of mind.
stereotypes
Agility.

5. In their study of planning - Gardner and Rogoff found that

6. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Flynn effect.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Identity integration
. psychodynamic view

7. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
At risk for obesity.
Decoding.
Script.
. saturated self.

8. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Plan ahead.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Sociodramatic play.

9. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
Improvement in social status
. the social goal
Enabling interactions
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

10. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Auxiliary hair appears
Authoritarian
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.

11. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
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.
More
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.

12. having extended family involved in their lives.
The survival goal.
Decreases; remains the same
When parents are not getting along
Differential reinforcement

13. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?
Need about 8 hours.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Increases
Disciplinarian

14. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
A performance orientation.
Emerging adulthood.
Uneven and variable
Relational aggression

15. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
controlling conflict within a social group.
Decrease in efficiency
Emerging adulthood.

16. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Sociodramatic play.
Metamemory.
Transductivity.

17. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Motor drive
Sociodramatic play

18. 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...
Autobiographical memory.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Genetic and environmental factors.

19. A male's first ejaculation is called...
Spermarche.
Emerging adulthood.
Transductivity.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.

20. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Computer.
Personal distress
Theory theory
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

21. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

22. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
Identity assumption
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Prevention science.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.

23. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
throw a ball overhand.
Financial recession.
Socioeconomic status.
An entity model of intelligence.

24. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.
Personality formation
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Need about 8 hours.
Social intelligence.

25. 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...
Compensation.
Instrumental aggression.
Prosocial behavior
Identity integration

26. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
Transductivity.
Personality formation
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Violence

27. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Internalizing problems.
support emotion and security needs.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.

28. Which type of aggression are preschool aged girls more likely to engage in than preschool boys?
Deviancy in adolescence.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Relational aggression
Prosocial behavior

29. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Foreclosure.
Personal distress
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Enabling interactions

30. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
The ovaries and the testes.
Microsystem
Motor drive
Violence

31. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
Foreclosure.
Conservation.
to be enrolled in preschool
Violence

32. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Socioeconomic status.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks

33. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
At risk for obesity.
Apprenticeship
Confusing appearance and reality.
A scale error

34. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
Empathy
When parents are not getting along
Conservation.
Metamemory.

35. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
Deviancy in adolescence.
The model does not include a morality of care.
Script.
Identification through differentiation

36. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
Formal operations.
throw a ball overhand.
Authoritative
Experience sampling method.

37. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
Internalizing problems.
stereotypes
Slower
Moratorium

38. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Relational aggression
Increases
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning

39. 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
. saturated self.
Emerging adulthood.
Conservation.

40. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
At risk for obesity.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
A performance orientation.
Personal and social conventional

41. 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 ____________
Deviancy in adolescence.
Social conventional; personal
Decoding.
Higher levels of intelligence

42. 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...
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Self-regulatory capacity.
The Oedipus complex.
Conservation.

43. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Foreclosure.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Theory of mind.
Script.

44. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Me-self
Conservation.
Specific learning disabilities.

45. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
Internalizing problems.
Formal operations.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Confusing appearance and reality.

46. Not the result of the maturation of the frontal lobe?
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Personal distress
Higher levels of intelligence

47. The use of meaningful activities - supporting basic skills - and employing mathematical models in the learning of math are components of...
A. more wooden buttons.
Puberty.
Microsystem
Realistic mathematics education.

48. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
Deviancy in adolescence.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Confusing appearance and reality.
Identification through differentiation

49. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
controlling conflict within a social group.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Increases
Agility.

50. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Personal distress
Formal operations
to be enrolled in preschool