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Human Development - HDFC

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...






2. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?






3. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.






4. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...






5. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...






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






7. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...






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






9. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...






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






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






12. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...






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






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






15. 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...






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






17. Children adopting an entity theory of intelligence are more likely than others to...

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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. In the reciprocal-teaching approach...






20. The use of meaningful activities - supporting basic skills - and employing mathematical models in the learning of math are components of...






21. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.






22. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...






23. Kohlberg's process of sex-role development mostly closely follows...

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24. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?






25. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has






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. 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?






28. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...






29. 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.






30. By helping children to recall and interpret events in which they have participated - adults help children acquire an enduring sense of themselves by creating a sort of personal narrative - referred to as the child's...






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






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






33. Which of the following statements about children's experience with interactive media is NOT true?

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






35. 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






36. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...






37. 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...






38. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

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






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






41. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...






42. Adolescent ethnic identity formation is not strong when...






43. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...






44. 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.






45. __________ 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.






46. Research in which participants carry electronic pagers that beep at random intervals - signaling that they need to fill out a brief report on their current feelings is called...






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






48. Not considered to be a privileged domain?






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






50. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.