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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
Social conventional; personal
The model does not include a morality of care.
Personal and social conventional
Rehearsal.

2. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Uneven and variable
A scale error
Self-regulatory capacity.
The Oedipus complex.

3. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
positive emotions
Decision making
Authoritarian
Metamemory.

4. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
A scale error
stereotypes
Elaboration.
Realistic mathematics education.

5. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Mental operations.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Realistic mathematics education.

6. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Personal distress
Uneven and variable
Identity formation

7. 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.
transductive reasoning
Motor drive
Decoding.

8. 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...
Genetic and environmental factors.
Compensation.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Exosystem.

9. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Emotional climate of family
controlling conflict within a social group.

10. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...
Personal distress
Creative arts
Skipping.
Socioeconomic status.

11. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.
Authoritarian
Puberty.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Reciprocal teaching.

12. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Conservation.
Dyslexia.

13. Whose theory of adolescent development believed that adolescence is the consequence of evolutionary processes?
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Piaget
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Self-regulatory capacity.

14. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
slowly
transductive reasoning
Multiple intelligences.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.

15. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Internalizing problems.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Self-regulatory capacity.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.

16. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Socialization.
Agility.
. Decoding

17. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
The survival goal.
Computer.
Effortful control.

18. 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?
to be enrolled in preschool
puberty
Identity integration
School-cutoff strategy.

19. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
The Oedipus complex.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Decoding.

20. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Biological maturation.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Theory theory
. children older than seven years of age

21. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
Slower
The human papillomavirus.
Piaget
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.

22. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?
Conservation.
Script.
Egocentrism
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

23. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Prevention science.
Computer.
Culture-sensitive instruction.

24. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
Inability to categorize objects
Deviancy in adolescence.
. children older than seven years of age
Formal operations.

25. 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.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Emerging adulthood.
more

26. 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...
. psychodynamic view
stereotypes
Emphasize obedience.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'

27. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
Social conventional; personal
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.

28. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.
Piaget
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
transductive reasoning
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

29. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
Not supported by research
Genetic and environmental factors.
Theory of mind.
Personal and social conventional

30. Which approach does the idea that theory of mind develops from primitive theories of how the world works that are present at birth and modified through experience in the world follow?
Theory theory
Slower
Disciplinarian
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.

31. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
controlling conflict within a social group.
stereotypes
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Formal operations.

32. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
Cultural socialization
12 to 15 hours
Personal and social conventional
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.

33. Authoritarian
Social and emotional development.
positive emotions
Elaboration.
Foreclosure.

34. 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 ____________
Plan ahead.
Social conventional; personal
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Dyslexia.

35. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Confusing appearance and reality.
Uterus growth.
Masturbation

36. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?
controlling conflict within a social group.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Inability to categorize objects
Exosystem.

37. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Apprenticeship
Computer.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.

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

39. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Emotional climate of family
Social intelligence.
support emotion and security needs.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.

40. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
Dyslexia.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
At risk for obesity.
Self-regulatory capacity.

41. 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...
Me-self
Reciprocal teaching.
Privileged domains.
Transductivity.

42. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...
Independent.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Instrumental aggression.
The Oedipus complex.

43. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Slower
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Creative arts

44. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Instrumental aggression.
puberty
Puberty.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning

45. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?
Gina - an early-maturing female
A scale error
Personal distress
Compensation.

46. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...
Identity integration
Increases; decreases
Exosystem.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.

47. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...
Me-self
Genetic and environmental factors.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.

48. Not a risk factor for child abuse?
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Emphasize obedience.
Confusing appearance and reality.
. children older than seven years of age

49. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Agility.
Identity assumption
stereotypes
Compensation.

50. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Specific learning disabilities.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
clique