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Human Development - HDFC

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1. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Identity assumption

2. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?
A performance orientation.
. the social goal
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence

3. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
Not supported by research
positive emotions
Differential reinforcement
Increases

4. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
Puberty.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
to be enrolled in preschool
Risky and potentially harmful.

5. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...
more
The survival goal.
Emotional climate of family
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.

6. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
At risk for obesity.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Compensation.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate

7. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...
An entity model of intelligence.
Prosocial behavior
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Enabling interactions

8. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
Identification through differentiation
Rehearsal.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.

9. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...
The drawer in the in kitchen
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
throw a ball overhand.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.

10. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
Decision making
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Reciprocal teaching.
stereotypes

11. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
. the social goal
Script.
School-cutoff strategy.
Motor drive

12. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Decoding.
Decision making
Conservation.
Decrease in efficiency

13. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Moratorium
slowly
Me-self

14. The memory strategy that involves making connections between two or more things to be remembered is called...
A performance orientation.
Elaboration.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Metamemory.

15. 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...
Self-regulatory capacity.
Conservation.
Independent.
to be enrolled in preschool

16. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Identity integration
Stage 4
Risky and potentially harmful.
Inability to categorize objects

17. Children adopting an entity theory of intelligence are more likely than others to...

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18. The fear - guilt - and conflict stirred up by a boy's desire to kill his father and live with his mother taking his father's place is known as...
The Oedipus complex.
Plan ahead.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
An infusion of pubertal hormones

19. In the reciprocal-teaching approach...
. saturated self.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Metamemory.
Decreases; remains the same

20. The use of meaningful activities - supporting basic skills - and employing mathematical models in the learning of math are components of...
Realistic mathematics education.
Flynn effect.
. Decoding
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

21. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
Deviancy in adolescence.
Increases
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Identity formation

22. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
Compensation.
Socioeconomic status.
Rehearsal.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.

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

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24. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Decreases; remains the same
Decision making
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Differential reinforcement

25. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
Social intelligence.
Conservation.
Dyslexia.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.

26. 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.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Authoritarian
Formal operations
more

27. 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?
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Identity integration
12 to 15 hours

28. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...
puberty
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Social and emotional development.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.

29. Research on young children demonstrates that high levels of ______________ measured at the beginning of a year is associated with high levels of self-regulation when measured later in the same year.
Sociodramatic play
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Auxiliary hair appears
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.

30. 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...
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Agility.
Autobiographical memory.

31. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
. saturated self.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Emotional climate of family

32. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
. saturated self.
Agility.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
The human papillomavirus.

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

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34. Cross-cultural research on the effects of schooling suggests that schooling...
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Interdependence
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Skipping.

35. 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
Compensation.
Conservation.
Effortful control.
The ovaries and the testes.

36. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Identification.
Emphasize obedience.
Puberty.

37. 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...
Socioeconomic status.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Reciprocal teaching.
Specific learning disabilities.

38. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

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39. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Confusing appearance and reality.
. the social goal
Improvement in social status

40. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Spermarche.
Internalizing problems.
Plan ahead.
Enabling interactions

41. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
Theory of mind.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Empathy
A scale error

42. Adolescent ethnic identity formation is not strong when...
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Theory of mind.
throw a ball overhand.
An entity model of intelligence.

43. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...
Motor drive
Skipping.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Having extended family involved in their lives.

44. 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.
Experience sampling method.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Increases
Chlamydia

45. __________ can be characterized as a form of activity that is intermediate between the implicit socialization of everyday family life and the explicit teaching of formal education.
Formal operations.
Flynn effect.
Apprenticeship
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.

46. Research in which participants carry electronic pagers that beep at random intervals - signaling that they need to fill out a brief report on their current feelings is called...
Experience sampling method.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Decreases; remains the same

47. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
Confusing appearance and reality.
Chlamydia
Higher levels of intelligence
Emphasize obedience.

48. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Cultural socialization
puberty
Creative arts
clique

49. The extent to which friends are similar to one another is referred to as...
slowly
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Homophily.
Having extended family involved in their lives.

50. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
Social interaction
Flynn effect.
Violence
Uterus growth.