Human Development - HDFC

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

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2. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
Compensation.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Deviancy in adolescence.
Financial recession.


3. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Personal distress
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Sociodramatic play.
Decreases; remains the same


4. 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
Socialization.
Skipping.
Compensation.
Increases; decreases


5. 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...
Not supported by research
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
When parents are not getting along


6. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Instrumental aggression.
Internalizing problems.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.


7. 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?
Empathy
Theory theory
Conservation.
Sensory register


8. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...
. children older than seven years of age
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
slowly
Compensation.


9. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Auxiliary hair appears
Socialization.
Creative arts
Exosystem.


10. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...
Socialization.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Realistic mathematics education.
Differential reinforcement


11. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Compensation.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Mental operations.
The survival goal.


12. Piaget believed that the greatest limitation to young children's thinking was...
Transductivity.
School-cutoff strategy.
Deviancy in adolescence.
Mental operations.


13. 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?
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Differential reinforcement
Identity integration


14. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Enabling interactions


15. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
The model does not include a morality of care.
Uneven and variable
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Postconventional level


16. 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?
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
. psychodynamic view
Reasoning about spatial perspectives


17. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
Independent.
Not supported by research
Privileged domains.
Puberty.


18. 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.
Social intelligence.
clique
Compensation.


19. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
. saturated self.
Homophily.
Apprenticeship
At risk for obesity.


20. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Effortful control.
Gay and lesbian parents


21. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
Not supported by research
Motor drive
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Privileged domains.


22. Not a risk factor for child abuse?
Disciplinarian
Mental operations.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
. children older than seven years of age


23. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Chlamydia
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
transductive reasoning


24. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
The model does not include a morality of care.
Interdependence
Piaget


25. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Formal operations.
When parents are not getting along
Girls report feelings of coercion.


26. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Multiple intelligences.
Sensory register
Spermarche.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.


27. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
A scale error
Social intelligence.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.


28. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Prevention science.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.


29. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Foreclosure.
Identity formation
Microsystem
Conservation.


30. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...
Thought processes.
Prosocial behavior
Identification.
Kitchen.


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

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32. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...
Puberty.
Metamemory.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
. the social goal


33. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Self-regulatory capacity.
Emotional climate of family
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Agility.


34. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
Identification through differentiation
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Chlamydia


35. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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36. Kohlberg's process of sex-role development mostly closely follows...

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37. 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...
Kitchen.
Theory theory
Inability to categorize objects
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.


38. __________ can be characterized as a form of activity that is intermediate between the implicit socialization of everyday family life and the explicit teaching of formal education.
Disciplinarian
Apprenticeship
An infusion of pubertal hormones
clique


39. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...
to be enrolled in preschool
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Prosocial behavior
Authoritative


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

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41. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Compensation.
Emotional climate of family
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.


42. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?
Improvement in social status
more
An entity model of intelligence.
Relational aggression


43. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Enabling interactions
Formal operations.
Moratorium
Increases; decreases


44. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
Puberty.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Not supported by research
. children older than seven years of age


45. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
Disciplinarian
Masturbation
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
The Oedipus complex.


46. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
Higher levels of intelligence
Cultural socialization
School-cutoff strategy.
Empathy


47. The term gonads refers to...
The ovaries and the testes.
An entity model of intelligence.
Empathy
Creative arts


48. The memory strategy that involves making connections between two or more things to be remembered is called...
more
The human papillomavirus.
Elaboration.
. the social goal


49. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Gay and lesbian parents
Computer.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.


50. Research on fathers suggests that...
Gay and lesbian parents
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Personal distress
Compensation.