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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration






2. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?






3. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...






4. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?






5. Cross-cultural studies of concrete operations demonstrate that...

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6. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.






7. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?






8. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?






9. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...






10. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?






11. 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?






12. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation






13. 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...






14. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?






15. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?






16. Research on the use of interactive media suggests that boys who play computer games often spend _________ time with their friends outside of school than boys who spend little to no time playing on the computer.






17. 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...






18. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?






19. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...






20. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...






21. 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






22. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress






23. According to Piaget -...






24. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...






25. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?






26. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...






27. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...






28. 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






29. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...






30. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...






31. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...






32. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...






33. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...






34. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation






35. 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?






36. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'






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...






38. 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...






39. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.






40. Five-year-old Jacob is playing with his grandmother's buttons. He counts eight wooden buttons and three plastic buttons. When his grandmother asks Jacob if he has more wooden buttons or more buttons - he will most likely indicate that there are...






41. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...






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

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43. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...






44. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...






45. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...






46. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?






47. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...






48. Studies comparing schooled and nonschooled students have demonstrated that...






49. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...






50. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...