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Human Development - HDFC

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1. 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.
Increases
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Higher levels of intelligence
slowly

2. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Theory theory
Skipping.
Enabling interactions
A performance orientation.

3. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Emotional climate of family
Auxiliary hair appears
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children

4. In terms of sleep - adolescents...
Reciprocal teaching.
throw a ball overhand.
Need about 8 hours.
Social conventional; personal

5. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
A scale error
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Creative arts
controlling conflict within a social group.

6. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
clique
Differential reinforcement
. Decoding

7. A child sharing her apple slice with another child is an example of...
Socioeconomic status.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Prosocial behavior
Reciprocal teaching.

8. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
A performance orientation.
Thought processes.

9. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?
Disciplinarian
Realistic mathematics education.
Relational aggression
stereotypes

10. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
clique
positive emotions
. children older than seven years of age
Specific learning disabilities.

11. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
puberty
Uterus growth.
stereotypes
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning

12. The extent to which friends are similar to one another is referred to as...
Homophily.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Sensory register
A. more wooden buttons.

13. In the reciprocal-teaching approach...
Me-self
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.

14. Not a risk factor for child abuse?
Authoritarian
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
. children older than seven years of age
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.

15. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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16. A male's first ejaculation is called...
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Rehearsal.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Spermarche.

17. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Risky and potentially harmful.
Decreases; remains the same
Uneven and variable
Identity formation

18. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...
Personal and social conventional
Internalizing problems.
Biological maturation.
Differential reinforcement

19. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
Effortful control.
Not supported by research
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Gay and lesbian parents

20. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
. the social goal
Microsystem
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.

21. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
When parents are not getting along
Self-regulatory capacity.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

22. If a 5-year-old watches a little girl put a piece of candy into a drawer in the kitchen and then watches the girl's mother move the piece of candy to the refrigerator without the little girl knowing - where will the 5-year-old say the little girl wil
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
The drawer in the in kitchen
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Social and emotional development.

23. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
Rehearsal.
Financial recession.
Emerging adulthood.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

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.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Sociodramatic play
Genetic and environmental factors.

25. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
transductive reasoning
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.

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.
Specific learning disabilities.
more
Thought processes.
In formal schooling oral instruction is the most common type of instruction while apprenticeship instruction is done through watching and imitating the master's work.

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?
Moratorium
The model does not include a morality of care.
Identity integration
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.

28. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Emerging adulthood.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

29. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes
Compensation.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
More rigid

30. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
A. more wooden buttons.
Inability to categorize objects
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Slower

31. __________ 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.
Apprenticeship
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
A. more wooden buttons.

32. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Biological maturation.
Stage 4
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.

33. According to Piaget -...
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Decreases; remains the same

34. Authoritative parents are...
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Identity assumption
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
. saturated self.

35. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...
Sociodramatic play.
Disciplinarian
Need about 8 hours.
Culture-sensitive instruction.

36. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Internalizing problems.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
positive emotions
Foreclosure.

37. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
stereotypes

38. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Emotional climate of family
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.

39. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Personal distress
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Need about 8 hours.

40. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
slowly
Authoritarian
Emphasize obedience.
The human papillomavirus.

41. One of the key aspects of Piaget's formal operations involves...
Specific learning disabilities.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
slowly

42. 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?
Identity assumption
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
direct instruction - Play
Elaboration.

43. 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?
Theory theory
Conservation.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Cultural socialization

44. How many hours of sleep in a 24-hour period should a child between the ages of 2 and 5 get?
The Oedipus complex.
A scale error
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
12 to 15 hours

45. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
Formal operations.
puberty
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.

46. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
Plan ahead.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Identification through differentiation
Girls report feelings of coercion.

47. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Creative arts
More
Formal operations.

48. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
Identity formation
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
The survival goal.
Identity assumption

49. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
to be enrolled in preschool
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.

50. Alfred Binet is known for creating...
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Internalizing problems.
Reciprocal teaching.