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Human Development - HDFC

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1. 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?






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






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






4. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?






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






6. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...






7. Research on fathers suggests that...






8. Similarity between friends can contribute to...






9. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...






10. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...






11. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...






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






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






14. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...






15. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?






16. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

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






18. Whose theory of adolescent development believed that adolescence is the consequence of evolutionary processes?






19. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation






20. having extended family involved in their lives.






21. 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...






22. A primary sex characteristic...






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

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24. 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?






25. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?






26. According to Piaget -...






27. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.






28. In the reciprocal-teaching approach...






29. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits






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






31. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...






32. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...






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






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






35. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.






36. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.






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






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






39. 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.






40. 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?






41. The understanding that the properties of an object or substance remain the same even if its appearance is altered in some superficial way is called...






42. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?






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






44. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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45. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration






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

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47. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...






48. The most common STI in the U.S. is...






49. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...






50. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has