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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation






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






3. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?






4. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.






5. 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...






6. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?






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






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






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






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






11. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...






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


13. Not a risk factor for child abuse?






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






15. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?






23. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...






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






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






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






27. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...






28. Research on parent-adolescent relationships suggests that a great deal of conflict arises because of differences in opinion about the boundaries between which two social domains?






29. 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...






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






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






32. 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...






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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






40. Kohlberg's process of sex-role development mostly closely follows...


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






42. 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?






43. 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






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






45. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...






46. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.






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






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






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






50. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...