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Human Development - HDFC

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Cross-cultural studies of concrete operations demonstrate that...

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2. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...






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






4. Not considered to be a privileged domain?






5. Not a risk factor for child abuse?






6. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...






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






8. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...






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






10. Alfred Binet is known for creating...






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






12. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?






13. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration






14. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...






15. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...






16. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.






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






18. 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...






19. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?






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






21. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?






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

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23. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...






24. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...






25. 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...






26. 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?






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






28. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...






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






30. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes






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






32. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'






33. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.






34. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...






35. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...






36. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...






37. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...






38. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...






39. 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?






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






41. __________ 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.






42. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.






43. One of the key aspects of Piaget's formal operations involves...






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






45. Five-year-old Jacob is playing with his grandmother's buttons. He counts eight wooden buttons and three plastic buttons. When his grandmother asks Jacob if he has more wooden buttons or more buttons - he will most likely indicate that there are...






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






47. Not a protective factor






48. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...






49. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...






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