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Human Development - HDFC

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1. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
When parents are not getting along
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.

2. The understanding that the properties of an object or substance remain the same even if its appearance is altered in some superficial way is called...
Conservation.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Higher levels of intelligence
controlling conflict within a social group.

3. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
Deviancy in adolescence.
Emerging adulthood.
Emphasize obedience.
Self-regulatory capacity.

4. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Piaget
Moratorium
. Decoding

5. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Dyslexia.
Deviancy in adolescence.

6. 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?
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Exosystem.
Moratorium
Personal and social conventional

7. How many hours of sleep in a 24-hour period should a child between the ages of 2 and 5 get?
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Auxiliary hair appears
12 to 15 hours

8. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Homophily.
A performance orientation.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.

9. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Emotional climate of family
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Increases; decreases
A performance orientation.

10. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
Multiple intelligences.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
A performance orientation.
The human papillomavirus.

11. Research on fathers suggests that...
Slower
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Increases; decreases
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.

12. Not the result of the maturation of the frontal lobe?
puberty
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Higher levels of intelligence
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.

13. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.
Personal distress
throw a ball overhand.
Decreases; remains the same
Thought processes.

14. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Puberty.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Rehearsal.

15. 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...
A. more wooden buttons.
Financial recession.
Emerging adulthood.
Agility.

16. A primary sex characteristic...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Uterus growth.
Increases; decreases
Sociodramatic play.

17. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?
stereotypes
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Chlamydia
Auxiliary hair appears

18. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.
Social intelligence.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
The human papillomavirus.
slowly

19. Studies comparing schooled and nonschooled students have demonstrated that...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Increases

20. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
. the social goal
Egocentrism
Metamemory.
Emotional climate of family

21. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?
Inability to categorize objects
Compensation.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.

22. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...
Exosystem.
Compensation.
Instrumental aggression.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

23. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
direct instruction - Play
Independent.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.

24. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Differential reinforcement
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.

25. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Experience sampling method.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Postconventional level
Culture-sensitive instruction.

26. 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...
Identity formation
Experience sampling method.
Script.
support emotion and security needs.

27. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
. saturated self.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.

28. Which of the following categories of racial socialization messages appears to be associated with stronger cognitive abilities and fewer behavior problems among African-American children?
Conservation.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Cultural socialization
Social interaction

29. Whose theory of adolescent development believed that adolescence is the consequence of evolutionary processes?
. children older than seven years of age
When parents are not getting along
At risk for obesity.
Piaget

30. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Sociodramatic play.
Multiple intelligences.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.

31. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Puberty.
Emphasize obedience.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate

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

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33. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
. the social goal
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Reciprocal teaching.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

34. The extent to which friends are similar to one another is referred to as...
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Financial recession.
Homophily.
Need about 8 hours.

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

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36. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
In addition to cognitive structures - gender schema theory uses culture to explain sex-role identity development - Gender schema theory often uses an information-processing approach to describe how the cognitive and learning elements of the system wo
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Autobiographical memory.
Postconventional level

37. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
Prosocial behavior
Inability to categorize objects
Egocentrism
Dyslexia.

38. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...
Differential reinforcement
Socialization.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Internalizing problems.

39. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
support emotion and security needs.
Agility.
Privileged domains.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.

40. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
Violence
Realistic mathematics education.
Egocentrism
Authoritative

41. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
Internalizing problems.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.

42. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Identification through differentiation
Foreclosure.
Homophily.
Identity assumption

43. According to Piaget -...
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Skipping.
Biological maturation.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.

44. Which of the following statements about the development of the brain during early childhood is TRUE?

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45. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
The human papillomavirus.
. children older than seven years of age
Deviancy in adolescence.

46. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
At risk for obesity.
Masturbation
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.

47. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Socialization.
Prosocial behavior
Conservation.

48. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Agility.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
slowly

49. When three-year-old children are told a story about a little boy who puts candy in a drawer - leaves the room - and doesn't see when his mother then moves the candy into the kitchen - they predict the boy will look for the candy in the...
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Kitchen.
Egocentrism
Specific learning disabilities.

50. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Social interaction
Internalizing problems.
Cultural socialization
Personality formation