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Human Development - HDFC

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...






2. Adolescent ethnic identity formation is not strong when...






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






4. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?






5. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...






6. 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?






7. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.






8. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...






9. Borke's replication of Piaget and Inhelder's three-mountain experiment in which children were presented with a Sesame Street character that drove around familiar landmarks demonstrated that three- and four-year-old children are capable of...






10. The school-cutoff strategy helps researchers to...

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11. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...






12. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...






13. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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14. How many hours of sleep in a 24-hour period should a child between the ages of 2 and 5 get?






15. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...






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






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






18. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has






19. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.






20. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...






21. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.






22. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...






23. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...






24. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?






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






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






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






28. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...






29. A primary sex characteristic...






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






31. Which view of moral development suggests that children acquire a sense of What is right and wrong from internalizing the moral standards of their parents?






32. 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?






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






34. 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.






35. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...






36. A child sharing her apple slice with another child is an example of...






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






38. When talking about their sexual debut -...






39. NOT characteristic of school problems?






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

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






42. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...






43. having extended family involved in their lives.






44. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?






45. According to Piaget -...






46. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...






47. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.






48. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...






49. A child's ability to recognize that two rows of pennies each with the same number of pennies have the same number of pennies when one row of pennies is longer than the other is called...






50. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.