Test your basic knowledge |

Human Development - HDFC

Subject : teaching

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
Interdependence
Social intelligence.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

2. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?
clique
positive emotions
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.

3. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
The drawer in the in kitchen
to be enrolled in preschool
throw a ball overhand.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.

4. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?
The human papillomavirus.
Independent.
An entity model of intelligence.
Inability to categorize objects

5. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Personal and social conventional
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.

6. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?
In addition to cognitive structures - gender schema theory uses culture to explain sex-role identity development - Gender schema theory often uses an information-processing approach to describe how the cognitive and learning elements of the system wo
Gina - an early-maturing female
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
positive emotions

7. 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.
Flynn effect.
Increases
Conservation.
Differential reinforcement

8. 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...
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Elaboration.
Conservation.
Effortful control.

9. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Moratorium
Deviancy in adolescence.
A performance orientation.
When parents are not getting along

10. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Confusing appearance and reality.
More

11. 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 ____________
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Social conventional; personal
Sociodramatic play.
Higher levels of intelligence

12. 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?
Multiple intelligences.
Social intelligence.
Cultural socialization
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy

13. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
An entity model of intelligence.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.

14. 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?
When parents are not getting along
Compensation.
An entity model of intelligence.
. psychodynamic view

15. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes
Internalizing problems.
More rigid
When parents are not getting along
Neighborhood physical disorder.

16. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
. Decoding
Conservation.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.

17. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Not supported by research
Me-self
Neighborhood physical disorder.

18. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
more
Personality formation
Social interaction

19. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Compensation.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

21. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...
When parents are not getting along
Sociodramatic play.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Internalizing problems.

22. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
The model does not include a morality of care.
Foreclosure.

23. 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?
Social intelligence.
Theory theory
Independent.
. psychodynamic view

24. According to information-processing approach to cognitive development - before stimulation from the environment (or 'input') can be stored in either short-term memory or long-term memory - it must pass through the...
Sensory register
Spermarche.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Sociodramatic play.

25. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
At risk for obesity.
Decision making
Microsystem

26. Whose theory of adolescent development believed that adolescence is the consequence of evolutionary processes?
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Masturbation
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Piaget

27. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...
Differential reinforcement
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.

28. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
. the social goal
Social intelligence.
Self-regulatory capacity.

29. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
When parents are not getting along
Identification.
Social interaction
controlling conflict within a social group.

30. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
More
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
more
Effortful control.

31. 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?
Personal and social conventional
Transductivity.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.

32. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
clique
Emphasize obedience.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

33. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Need about 8 hours.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
A scale error

34. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
slowly
. children older than seven years of age
Computer.

35. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
Identification through differentiation
. children older than seven years of age
When parents are not getting along
Decoding.

36. __________ 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.
clique
Uneven and variable
Skipping.
Apprenticeship

37. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...
Agility.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
controlling conflict within a social group.

38. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Uneven and variable
Deviancy in adolescence.
Conservation.
Thought processes.

39. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

40. Cross-cultural studies of concrete operations demonstrate that...

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

41. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
More
Social and emotional development.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Foreclosure.

42. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
The model does not include a morality of care.
Social conventional; personal

43. 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.
Puberty.
Computer.
Personal distress

44. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
controlling conflict within a social group.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Mental operations.
Independent.

45. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Auxiliary hair appears
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.

46. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.

47. 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.
Me-self
more
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Exosystem.

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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

49. The memory strategy that involves making connections between two or more things to be remembered is called...
Me-self
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Elaboration.
Masturbation

50. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
At risk for obesity.
Plan ahead.
Emotional climate of family