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Human Development - HDFC

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

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2. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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3. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Motor drive
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
The drawer in the in kitchen

4. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Spermarche.
More
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

5. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
Social intelligence.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Authoritarian
more

6. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.
transductive reasoning
Theory theory
Slower
The drawer in the in kitchen

7. Which type of aggression are preschool aged girls more likely to engage in than preschool boys?
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Relational aggression
Social intelligence.

8. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits
Me-self
Higher levels of intelligence
Formal operations
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.

9. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?
Social and emotional development.
Identity integration
Realistic mathematics education.
Stage 4

10. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Moratorium
Prosocial behavior
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

11. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Mental operations.
Decoding.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Multiple intelligences.

12. NOT characteristic of school problems?
positive emotions
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Risky and potentially harmful.

13. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
A scale error
Uterus growth.

14. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Sociodramatic play
The model does not include a morality of care.
An entity model of intelligence.

15. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?
Higher levels of intelligence
Transductivity.
Interdependence
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

16. 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?
Prosocial behavior
Personal and social conventional
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Egocentrism

17. When talking about their sexual debut -...
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Instrumental aggression.
direct instruction - Play

18. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Violence

19. 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...
Creative arts
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
direct instruction - Play
Auxiliary hair appears

20. 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...
Compensation.
Sensory register
A performance orientation.
Social intelligence.

21. 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?
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Identity integration
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Privileged domains.

22. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
positive emotions
Computer.
Privileged domains.
Formal operations

23. 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...
Internalizing problems.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
The Oedipus complex.

24. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
Rehearsal.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Gina - an early-maturing female
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

25. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
The drawer in the in kitchen
support emotion and security needs.
Emerging adulthood.
Biological maturation.

26. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
Mental operations.
Stage 4
Deviancy in adolescence.
Motor drive

27. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Multiple intelligences.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
slowly

28. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...
Chlamydia
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Sociodramatic play.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.

29. Not the result of the maturation of the frontal lobe?
Socioeconomic status.
Higher levels of intelligence
Computer.
Reciprocal teaching.

30. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
puberty
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence

31. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
more
Enabling interactions
Microsystem
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.

32. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Effortful control.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

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

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34. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
A performance orientation.
Enabling interactions
Decoding.
Higher levels of intelligence

35. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Puberty.
Slower
Decision making

36. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
Identity formation
When parents are not getting along
Social conventional; personal
direct instruction - Play

37. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Transductivity.
Higher levels of intelligence
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Identity formation

38. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Personal distress
Puberty.
Biological maturation.
An infusion of pubertal hormones

39. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Interdependence
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Increases
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.

40. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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41. Authoritative parents are...
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
School-cutoff strategy.
Stage 4
Conservation.

42. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Socioeconomic status.

43. 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?
Egocentrism
More rigid
Identity assumption
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

44. In terms of sleep - adolescents...
Internalizing problems.
controlling conflict within a social group.
More
Need about 8 hours.

45. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Conservation.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
The survival goal.

46. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Metamemory.
Reciprocal teaching.
Foreclosure.

47. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
Elaboration.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Financial recession.

48. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
Socioeconomic status.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Compensation.
Masturbation

49. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
clique
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Script.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

50. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
Higher levels of intelligence
Instrumental aggression.
Multiple intelligences.
Not supported by research