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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
Empathy
stereotypes
Slower
Elaboration.

2. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Chlamydia
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Independent.

3. Findings from the research of Kenneth and Mamie Clark has led psychologists to conclude that...
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
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.

4. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.
Privileged domains.
Personality formation
Transductivity.
Compensation.

5. The use of meaningful activities - supporting basic skills - and employing mathematical models in the learning of math are components of...
Disciplinarian
Risky and potentially harmful.
Realistic mathematics education.
Emphasize obedience.

6. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

7. Authoritarian
Socioeconomic status.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Homophily.
Social and emotional development.

8. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Reciprocal teaching.
Egocentrism
Thought processes.

9. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
Cultural socialization
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
controlling conflict within a social group.
A. more wooden buttons.

10. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Spermarche.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.

11. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.
Effortful control.
Personality formation
Decreases; remains the same
Differential reinforcement

12. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

13. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Postconventional level
More

14. 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...
An entity model of intelligence.
Cultural socialization
The Oedipus complex.
Dyslexia.

15. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Egocentrism
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Compensation.

16. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Increases; decreases
clique
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
More rigid

17. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Thought processes.
Identity formation
Gay and lesbian parents

18. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?
Internalizing problems.
. the social goal
Foreclosure.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.

19. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Identity formation
Compensation.
Enabling interactions
Decrease in efficiency

20. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...
Masturbation
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Creative arts
Higher levels of intelligence

21. 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.
slowly
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Decrease in efficiency

22. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

23. 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.
Increases; decreases
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Identity integration

24. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
Identity assumption
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
An entity model of intelligence.
Sociodramatic play

25. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
. children older than seven years of age
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Formal operations

26. In which stage of forming a sexual minority development would an individual who has had homosexual experiences and recognizes that they prefer sexual relations with members of their own sex but do not openly acknowledge their preference be?
Identity assumption
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Apprenticeship
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

27. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
Differential reinforcement
Cultural socialization
School-cutoff strategy.
. Decoding

28. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
Privileged domains.
Authoritative
clique
Transductivity.

29. Children adopting an entity theory of intelligence are more likely than others to...

30. Piaget believed that the greatest limitation to young children's thinking was...
Social intelligence.
Transductivity.
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

31. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...
Kitchen.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.

32. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Stage 4
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Formal operations.

33. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
. saturated self.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
School-cutoff strategy.

34. Authoritative parents are...
. saturated self.
Stage 4
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
More rigid

35. According to Piaget -...
Genetic and environmental factors.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Privileged domains.

36. Not a protective factor
Financial recession.
Socioeconomic status.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.

37. One of the key aspects of Piaget's formal operations involves...
positive emotions
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Higher levels of intelligence
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.

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

39. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Personal and social conventional
Having extended family involved in their lives.

40. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Gay and lesbian parents
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

41. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes
Confusing appearance and reality.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
More rigid
Spermarche.

42. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
Sensory register
The ovaries and the testes.
Microsystem
Multiple intelligences.

43. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
. saturated self.
Me-self
Socioeconomic status.

44. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Biological maturation.
Masturbation
positive emotions
Confusing appearance and reality.

45. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
Theory of mind.
Uneven and variable
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Genetic and environmental factors.

46. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...
transductive reasoning
Kitchen.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Sociodramatic play.

47. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...
to be enrolled in preschool
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Differential reinforcement
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.

48. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
Confusing appearance and reality.
Socioeconomic status.
Masturbation
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

49. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
Dyslexia.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Script.

50. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.
Cultural socialization
Experience sampling method.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Authoritative