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Human Development - HDFC

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1. 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?






2. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...






3. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...






4. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...






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






6. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...






7. A teacher and a small group of students read silently through segments of text and take turns leading discussion of their meaning. This is an example of...






8. 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?






9. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...






10. 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.






11. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...






12. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...






13. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...






14. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes






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






16. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...






17. In terms of sleep - adolescents...






18. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...






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






20. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?






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






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






23. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...






24. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.






25. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...






26. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.






27. One of the key aspects of Piaget's formal operations involves...






28. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...






29. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that






30. When it comes to television - children between the ages of 4 and 5...

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31. By helping children to recall and interpret events in which they have participated - adults help children acquire an enduring sense of themselves by creating a sort of personal narrative - referred to as the child's...






32. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...






33. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...






34. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?






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






36. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.






37. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.






38. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...






39. 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






40. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...






41. 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?






42. Authoritarian






43. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...






44. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?






45. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...






46. 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?






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






48. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?






49. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...






50. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?