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Human Development - HDFC

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1. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...
Need about 8 hours.
Enabling interactions
Skipping.
Personality formation

2. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Authoritarian
Deviancy in adolescence.
Increases; decreases
Personal distress

3. Research on fathers suggests that...
Uneven and variable
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Postconventional level

4. 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?
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Theory theory
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy

5. Alfred Binet is known for creating...
The ovaries and the testes.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
support emotion and security needs.
Gina - an early-maturing female

6. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits
Auxiliary hair appears
Financial recession.
Me-self
. saturated self.

7. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.
Cultural socialization
Social conventional; personal
slowly
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.

8. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
The human papillomavirus.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Realistic mathematics education.
Identification.

9. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Moratorium
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.

10. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
transductive reasoning
Identity formation
Identity integration
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.

11. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
Elaboration.
An entity model of intelligence.
Me-self
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.

12. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
Identity integration
Internalizing problems.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
. the social goal

13. 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?
More
Identity assumption
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.

14. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Conservation.
Uneven and variable
A. more wooden buttons.
Gay and lesbian parents

15. Authoritative parents are...
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Authoritarian
Genetic and environmental factors.
Moratorium

16. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Independent.
A. more wooden buttons.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.

17. The extent to which friends are similar to one another is referred to as...
Sociodramatic play.
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.
Homophily.
Not supported by research

18. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
Sociodramatic play.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Emerging adulthood.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

19. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Social interaction
Risky and potentially harmful.
Agility.
Microsystem

20. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
At risk for obesity.
Not supported by research
Deviancy in adolescence.
Increases; decreases

21. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
Violence
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
The human papillomavirus.
Culture-sensitive instruction.

22. 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...
Metamemory.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Kitchen.
Rehearsal.

23. 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.
more
Increases
Kitchen.
A. more wooden buttons.

24. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes
Violence
More rigid
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.

25. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...
When parents are not getting along
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Theory theory

26. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Me-self
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Slower
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

27. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
Puberty.
Microsystem
Decreases; remains the same
Identification through differentiation

28. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
Uterus growth.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Empathy

29. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Puberty.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Exosystem.

30. The term gonads refers to...
Improvement in social status
Effortful control.
The ovaries and the testes.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.

31. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...
Computer.
Plan ahead.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
More

32. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?
Personal distress
. the social goal
Dyslexia.
Inability to categorize objects

33. 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...
The drawer in the in kitchen
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
The Oedipus complex.

34. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.
Identity assumption
Slower
Me-self
Authoritative

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

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36. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Exosystem.
School-cutoff strategy.
Piaget

37. Which type of aggression are preschool aged girls more likely to engage in than preschool boys?
Slower
Rehearsal.
Relational aggression
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.

38. 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...
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
A. more wooden buttons.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.

39. Not a way schooling differs from traditional apprenticeship training?

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40. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...
Instrumental aggression.
Sensory register
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Internalizing problems.

41. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Emotional climate of family
Gay and lesbian parents
Metamemory.

42. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
positive emotions
Need about 8 hours.
Not supported by research
Social intelligence.

43. Various studies of the influence of television violence on children's behavior have found...
Genetic and environmental factors.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.

44. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
Social interaction
clique
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.

45. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
The ovaries and the testes.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Sociodramatic play
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.

46. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
Reciprocal teaching.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
to be enrolled in preschool

47. Research on young children demonstrates that high levels of ______________ measured at the beginning of a year is associated with high levels of self-regulation when measured later in the same year.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Cultural socialization
Sociodramatic play

48. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
A scale error
Metamemory.
Theory theory
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

49. having extended family involved in their lives.
Autobiographical memory.
The survival goal.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Compensation.

50. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...
Compensation.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Relational aggression