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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Effortful control.
Compensation.
Masturbation

2. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Agility.

3. Findings from the research of Kenneth and Mamie Clark has led psychologists to conclude that...
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
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Rehearsal.
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.

4. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
Identification through differentiation
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.

5. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...
Skipping.
Sensory register
Genetic and environmental factors.
Rehearsal.

6. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
Formal operations
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Emphasize obedience.
More rigid

7. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?
Foreclosure.
Apprenticeship
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

8. Vygotsky believed that which of the following plays a key role in self-regulation and can allow children to create their own zones of proximal development?
direct instruction - Play
Risky and potentially harmful.
Thought processes.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.

9. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
Internalizing problems.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Foreclosure.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.

10. Alfred Binet is known for creating...
throw a ball overhand.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Emotional climate of family
The model does not include a morality of care.

11. 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
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Social conventional; personal
clique

12. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...
Plan ahead.
Autobiographical memory.
. saturated self.
Prosocial behavior

13. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Identification.
direct instruction - Play
Emotional climate of family
Not supported by research

14. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
Emphasize obedience.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Sociodramatic play

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

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16. According to information-processing approach to cognitive development - before stimulation from the environment (or 'input') can be stored in either short-term memory or long-term memory - it must pass through the...
Sensory register
. Decoding
clique
A scale error

17. 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.
Microsystem
Sociodramatic play
Effortful control.
Identity formation

18. Piaget believed that the greatest limitation to young children's thinking was...
Self-regulatory capacity.
Transductivity.
Personality formation
Computer.

19. In Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning - at which level does reasoning require people to go beyond the existing social conventions to consider more abstract principles of right and wrong?
Socialization.
Social interaction
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Postconventional level

20. 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...
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.

21. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...
12 to 15 hours
Elaboration.
Authoritative
Socialization.

22. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Financial recession.
Realistic mathematics education.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.

23. 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?
. psychodynamic view
Identification through differentiation
Theory of mind.
Gina - an early-maturing female

24. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Multiple intelligences.
Rehearsal.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
More

25. Research on fathers suggests that...
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
controlling conflict within a social group.
Emerging adulthood.
Moratorium

26. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that
Decoding.
A. more wooden buttons.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
The human papillomavirus.

27. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Interdependence
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.

28. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
Puberty.
Reciprocal teaching.
Differential reinforcement
Identity integration

29. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Inability to categorize objects
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Identity integration

30. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.
The Oedipus complex.
Piaget
Thought processes.
Decreases; remains the same

31. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Independent.
throw a ball overhand.
Script.
Specific learning disabilities.

32. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
Disciplinarian
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Financial recession.
. saturated self.

33. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
Formal operations.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Independent.

34. 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...
Decreases; remains the same
The Oedipus complex.
Increases
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.

35. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
throw a ball overhand.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
stereotypes
Inability to categorize objects

36. Authoritarian
. psychodynamic view
Social and emotional development.
Rehearsal.
Authoritarian

37. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
throw a ball overhand.
Emotional climate of family
Puberty.

38. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Agility.
Internalizing problems.
support emotion and security needs.

39. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?
support emotion and security needs.
Piaget
Stage 4
positive emotions

40. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Exosystem.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Personality formation

41. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Formal operations.
A scale error

42. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
Authoritarian
Cultural socialization
Relational aggression
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

43. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'
Homophily.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Increases
Risky and potentially harmful.

44. A primary sex characteristic...
Differential reinforcement
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Uterus growth.

45. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Independent.
Mental operations.
Emphasize obedience.
Piaget

46. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...
Metamemory.
Decrease in efficiency
An entity model of intelligence.
Effortful control.

47. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
Dyslexia.
Authoritative
When parents are not getting along
Decoding.

48. Children adopting an entity theory of intelligence are more likely than others to...

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49. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?
Multiple intelligences.
Flynn effect.
Agility.
Gina - an early-maturing female

50. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?
. the social goal
Emerging adulthood.
Slower
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently