Test your basic knowledge |

Human Development - HDFC

Subject : teaching

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
Homophily.
Microsystem
Effortful control.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.

2. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Decrease in efficiency
Biological maturation.
Metamemory.
Specific learning disabilities.

3. __________ 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.
Increases; decreases
Apprenticeship
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.

4. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
Elaboration.
positive emotions
Homophily.
Independent.

5. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Foreclosure.
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
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.

6. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Identity formation
Cultural socialization
Financial recession.

7. 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...
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Theory theory
Conservation.

8. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
An entity model of intelligence.
Disciplinarian
Flynn effect.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.

9. 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...
. Decoding
throw a ball overhand.
The Oedipus complex.
Script.

10. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
support emotion and security needs.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Increases; decreases
Social intelligence.

11. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Puberty.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

12. A male's first ejaculation is called...
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Transductivity.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Spermarche.

13. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Decision making
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Deviancy in adolescence.

14. 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
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Moratorium
The model does not include a morality of care.

15. Alfred Binet is known for creating...
Piaget
puberty
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

16. NOT characteristic of school problems?
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
support emotion and security needs.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.

17. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
When parents are not getting along
Egocentrism
. Decoding
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.

18. When talking about their sexual debut -...
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Emotional climate of family
Prevention science.
Postconventional level

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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

20. Whose theory of adolescent development believed that adolescence is the consequence of evolutionary processes?
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Social interaction
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Piaget

21. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
. the social goal
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Slower
Authoritarian

22. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
Differential reinforcement
stereotypes
Emerging adulthood.
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

23. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Effortful control.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

24. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Independent.
Personality formation
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.

25. Authoritative parents are...
The model does not include a morality of care.
direct instruction - Play
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.

26. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes
more
More rigid
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Social intelligence.

27. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Social interaction
Emotional climate of family
Stage 4
Multiple intelligences.

28. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
Privileged domains.
Socioeconomic status.
Deviancy in adolescence.
support emotion and security needs.

29. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
The survival goal.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Conservation.

30. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Dyslexia.
Theory theory

31. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Internalizing problems.
Enabling interactions
A. more wooden buttons.

32. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
. Decoding
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Authoritative

33. Not a protective factor
Script.
Financial recession.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Relational aggression

34. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Personal distress
Financial recession.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Motor drive

35. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Me-self
Independent.
Disciplinarian
Specific learning disabilities.

36. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Elaboration.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.

37. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Chlamydia
When parents are not getting along
Gay and lesbian parents
Homophily.

38. Parents who insist that their adolescent dress in a socially appropriate way is operating from the boundaries of ____________; while an adolescent who insists that dress is a matter of personal choice are operating from the boundaries of ____________
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
The human papillomavirus.
Social conventional; personal
Auxiliary hair appears

39. Studies comparing schooled and nonschooled students have demonstrated that...
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Multiple intelligences.

40. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
clique
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Elaboration.
Chlamydia

41. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...
Social intelligence.
Confusing appearance and reality.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.

42. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Sociodramatic play.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Violence

43. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...
Plan ahead.
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Need about 8 hours.
School-cutoff strategy.

44. 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...
Exosystem.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

45. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
The Oedipus complex.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Prevention science.
Decision making

46. Adolescent boys and girls - whose friends engage in high levels of disruptive behavior at the beginning of a school year - are more likely to experience ___________ in the level of their own disruptive behavior later in the school year.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Prevention science.
Increases
Violence

47. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Sensory register
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.

48. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Microsystem
When parents are not getting along
Biological maturation.
. the social goal

49. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
throw a ball overhand.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Sensory register
Having extended family involved in their lives.

50. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
A performance orientation.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Conservation.
Enabling interactions