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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Mental operations.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
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2. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...
School-cutoff strategy.
slowly
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Theory of mind.

3. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...
An entity model of intelligence.
Metamemory.
Thought processes.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.

4. The memory strategy that involves making connections between two or more things to be remembered is called...
Elaboration.
Sensory register
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Conservation.

5. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Formal operations.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
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.
Emotional climate of family

6. When talking about their sexual debut -...
Girls report feelings of coercion.
. saturated self.
Uneven and variable
The human papillomavirus.

7. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
Empathy
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Conservation.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.

8. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Chlamydia
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
controlling conflict within a social group.

9. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
Violence
Me-self
Transductivity.
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10. According to Piaget -...
Rehearsal.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Sociodramatic play.

11. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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12. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Mental operations.
Flynn effect.
clique

13. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...
Empathy
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
More rigid

14. In the reciprocal-teaching approach...
The human papillomavirus.
Privileged domains.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
positive emotions

15. Research on fathers suggests that...
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
. the social goal
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.

16. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?
. the social goal
Metamemory.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Enabling interactions

17. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
Agility.
. saturated self.
stereotypes
positive emotions

18. A teacher and a small group of students read silently through segments of text and take turns leading discussion of their meaning. This is an example of...
Not supported by research
. saturated self.
Social intelligence.
Reciprocal teaching.

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

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20. The school-cutoff strategy helps researchers to...

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21. 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.
Specific learning disabilities.
. the social goal
A. more wooden buttons.

22. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...
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.
Metamemory.
Decision making
controlling conflict within a social group.

23. Not the result of the maturation of the frontal lobe?
Risky and potentially harmful.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Higher levels of intelligence
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

24. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Identification.
Agility.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
. saturated self.

25. 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...
to be enrolled in preschool
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Biological maturation.
Sensory register

26. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
Confusing appearance and reality.
Effortful control.
Theory theory
Internalizing problems.

27. When it comes to television - children between the ages of 4 and 5...

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28. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Decision making
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Chlamydia

29. One of the key aspects of Piaget's formal operations involves...
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Sociodramatic play.
Social interaction

30. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Social interaction
Prevention science.
Deviancy in adolescence.

31. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Stage 4
Puberty.
Decision making

32. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
Effortful control.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Reciprocal teaching.

33. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
Compensation.
direct instruction - Play
Puberty.
Rehearsal.

34. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Compensation.
Formal operations
slowly

35. NOT characteristic of school problems?
Genetic and environmental factors.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Agility.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.

36. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...
puberty
Skipping.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Biological maturation.

37. 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.
transductive reasoning
Empathy
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.

38. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Formal operations
Personal and social conventional
Identity integration

39. 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.
Formal operations.
Autobiographical memory.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.

40. Findings from the research of Kenneth and Mamie Clark has led psychologists to conclude that...
Compensation.
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Conservation.
Socialization.

41. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
A performance orientation.
Elaboration.
Stage 4
Microsystem

42. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Gay and lesbian parents
Gina - an early-maturing female

43. 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...
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.

44. The use of meaningful activities - supporting basic skills - and employing mathematical models in the learning of math are components of...
Social interaction
Realistic mathematics education.
Experience sampling method.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.

45. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
Uterus growth.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Cultural socialization
Socioeconomic status.

46. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits
Transductivity.
Identity assumption
Uterus growth.
Me-self

47. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Motor drive
Internalizing problems.

48. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
puberty
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

49. 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
Realistic mathematics education.
Compensation.
Personal and social conventional
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.

50. A male's first ejaculation is called...
Uneven and variable
Postconventional level
Identity formation
Spermarche.