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Human Development - HDFC

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1. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?






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






3. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...






4. In the reciprocal-teaching approach...






5. 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...






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






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

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8. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...






9. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.






10. When talking about their sexual debut -...






11. 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...






12. 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?






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






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






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






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






17. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.






18. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.






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






20. In their study of planning - Gardner and Rogoff found that

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






22. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...






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






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






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






26. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...






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






28. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...






29. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...






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






31. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.






32. NOT characteristic of school problems?






33. Not a way schooling differs from traditional apprenticeship training?

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






35. 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?






36. 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 ____________






37. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...






38. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?






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






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






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






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






43. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...






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






45. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress






46. Not considered to be a privileged domain?






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

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48. If a 5-year-old watches a little girl put a piece of candy into a drawer in the kitchen and then watches the girl's mother move the piece of candy to the refrigerator without the little girl knowing - where will the 5-year-old say the little girl wil






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






50. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.