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Human Development - HDFC

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1. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?






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






3. Not considered to be a privileged domain?






4. 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...






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






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






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






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






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






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






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

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






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






14. According to Piaget -...






15. In terms of sleep - adolescents...






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






17. Which approach does the idea that theory of mind develops from primitive theories of how the world works that are present at birth and modified through experience in the world follow?






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...






19. 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...






20. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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21. 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






22. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...






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






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






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

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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.






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






28. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.






29. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...






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






31. 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?






32. The memory strategy that involves making connections between two or more things to be remembered is called...






33. On average - boys are not better than girls at...






34. Which view of moral development suggests that children acquire a sense of What is right and wrong from internalizing the moral standards of their parents?






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






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

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37. __________ 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.






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






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






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






41. In the reciprocal-teaching approach...






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






43. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...






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






45. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...






46. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?






47. 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?






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






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






50. Piaget believed that the greatest limitation to young children's thinking was...







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