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Human Development - HDFC

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






2. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?






3. Various studies of the influence of television violence on children's behavior have found...






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






5. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...






6. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...






7. Which of the following statements about children's experience with interactive media is NOT true?

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8. 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...






9. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...






10. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?






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






12. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...






13. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...






14. 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...






15. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...






16. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...






17. Cross-cultural research on the effects of schooling suggests that schooling...






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






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






20. A male's first ejaculation is called...






21. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...






22. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...






23. The school-cutoff strategy helps researchers to...

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24. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?






25. 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?






26. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...






27. 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?






28. Not a protective factor






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






30. Findings from the research of Kenneth and Mamie Clark has led psychologists to conclude that...






31. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...






32. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...






33. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.






34. 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.






35. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.






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






37. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...






38. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...






39. Which type of aggression are preschool aged girls more likely to engage in than preschool boys?






40. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...






41. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...






42. 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.






43. The extent to which friends are similar to one another is referred to as...






44. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...






45. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...






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






47. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.






48. Which of the following categories of racial socialization messages appears to be associated with stronger cognitive abilities and fewer behavior problems among African-American children?






49. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...






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






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