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Human Development - HDFC

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1. According to Piaget -...
Internalizing problems.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Gina - an early-maturing female

2. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Inability to categorize objects
Autobiographical memory.
Homophily.

3. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
Cultural socialization
Decoding.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.

4. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
Internalizing problems.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Identity integration
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.

5. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
Violence
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Reciprocal teaching.
Dyslexia.

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

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7. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
A performance orientation.
Script.
Motor drive
Increases

8. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?
Risky and potentially harmful.
Thought processes.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Independent.

9. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
Not supported by research
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Social intelligence.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.

10. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...
Masturbation
Authoritative
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Personal and social conventional

11. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
Uneven and variable
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Rehearsal.
Transductivity.

12. How many hours of sleep in a 24-hour period should a child between the ages of 2 and 5 get?
12 to 15 hours
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
Self-regulatory capacity.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking

13. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Identity formation
Gay and lesbian parents
Spermarche.

14. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
support emotion and security needs.
Puberty.
Masturbation
Rehearsal.

15. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...
Differential reinforcement
slowly
Emotional climate of family
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.

16. A male's first ejaculation is called...
The ovaries and the testes.
Spermarche.
more
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.

17. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?
The model does not include a morality of care.
Uneven and variable
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Improvement in social status

18. Borke's replication of Piaget and Inhelder's three-mountain experiment in which children were presented with a Sesame Street character that drove around familiar landmarks demonstrated that three- and four-year-old children are capable of...
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Script.

19. Research on fathers suggests that...
Prosocial behavior
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Identity assumption
Reciprocal teaching.

20. Whose theory of adolescent development believed that adolescence is the consequence of evolutionary processes?
Compensation.
Piaget
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Enabling interactions

21. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
Social conventional; personal
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.

22. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Conservation.
The ovaries and the testes.
Slower

23. A primary sex characteristic...
Creative arts
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Financial recession.
Uterus growth.

24. 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.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Sociodramatic play
Interdependence
Theory theory

25. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
to be enrolled in preschool
A. more wooden buttons.
Social conventional; personal

26. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
. saturated self.
Social interaction
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.

27. 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...
Reciprocal teaching.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
The model does not include a morality of care.
Kitchen.

28. 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.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Sensory register
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Increases

29. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Inability to categorize objects
Personal distress
Sociodramatic play

30. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
Autobiographical memory.
Identity formation
When parents are not getting along
Slower

31. NOT characteristic of school problems?
Independent.
Cultural socialization
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.

32. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Cultural socialization
Internalizing problems.
Apprenticeship

33. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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34. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
Sensory register
The human papillomavirus.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Privileged domains.

35. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.
Personality formation
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Not supported by research
Independent.

36. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
. the social goal
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

37. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
Plan ahead.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Formal operations

38. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Theory of mind.
Identity integration
Confusing appearance and reality.

39. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Relational aggression
Biological maturation.
Identity assumption

40. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Reciprocal teaching.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

41. Alfred Binet is known for creating...
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
School-cutoff strategy.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.

42. 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?
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Increases
Social intelligence.
Personal and social conventional

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

44. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
Puberty.
Homophily.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Computer.

45. 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...
Disciplinarian
Social and emotional development.
Kitchen.
Formal operations

46. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
Conservation.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Compensation.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.

47. In terms of sleep - adolescents...
Need about 8 hours.
Rehearsal.
Emotional climate of family
transductive reasoning

48. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation
Microsystem
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Multiple intelligences.

49. 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?
Theory theory
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Prosocial behavior
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.

50. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
Moratorium
puberty
The survival goal.
Thought processes.