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Human Development - HDFC
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1. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Plan ahead.
Motor drive
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Authoritative
2. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Me-self
Social interaction
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
3. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
A scale error
Experience sampling method.
Sociodramatic play.
4. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
Relational aggression
Empathy
Emotional climate of family
. children older than seven years of age
5. In the reciprocal-teaching approach...
The drawer in the in kitchen
Computer.
Theory theory
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
6. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
When parents are not getting along
Emerging adulthood.
Conservation.
7. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
12 to 15 hours
When parents are not getting along
At risk for obesity.
Rehearsal.
8. 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?
Conservation.
. psychodynamic view
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Socialization.
9. 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
Uterus growth.
Improvement in social status
Flynn effect.
10. 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...
Inability to categorize objects
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
clique
Compensation.
11. 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.
Chlamydia
Identity integration
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
12. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
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
Homophily.
Microsystem
Uneven and variable
13. Whose theory of adolescent development believed that adolescence is the consequence of evolutionary processes?
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Piaget
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
The ovaries and the testes.
14. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...
Personal distress
Social interaction
Piaget
Exosystem.
15. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
Prosocial behavior
Mental operations.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Confusing appearance and reality.
16. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
clique
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Me-self
17. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
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.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Rehearsal.
18. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Slower
19. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
clique
Enabling interactions
Identification.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
20. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
controlling conflict within a social group.
School-cutoff strategy.
21. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Identification through differentiation
Increases; decreases
Theory of mind.
Exosystem.
22. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
Multiple intelligences.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
23. 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 ____________
Social conventional; personal
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Autobiographical memory.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
24. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
Identification.
Slower
Dyslexia.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
25. A primary sex characteristic...
Higher levels of intelligence
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Postconventional level
Uterus growth.
26. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Spermarche.
Effortful control.
27. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
Not supported by research
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
28. When talking about their sexual debut -...
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Identity assumption
Moratorium
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
29. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
Cultural socialization
Compensation.
Moratorium
Agility.
30. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?
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31. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Decreases; remains the same
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Slower
Cultural socialization
32. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
more
The human papillomavirus.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Formal operations
33. 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
Compensation.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Disciplinarian
Personality formation
34. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Decoding.
Dyslexia.
Socialization.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
35. 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...
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
The Oedipus complex.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
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...
The survival goal.
Identification.
Decreases; remains the same
The human papillomavirus.
37. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
Me-self
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
. children older than seven years of age
38. Which of the following statements about the development of the brain during early childhood is TRUE?
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39. 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...
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Experience sampling method.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Internalizing problems.
40. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Exosystem.
Mental operations.
Internalizing problems.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
41. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
. saturated self.
Script.
Deviancy in adolescence.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
42. How many hours of sleep in a 24-hour period should a child between the ages of 2 and 5 get?
clique
12 to 15 hours
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Increases; decreases
43. The term gonads refers to...
Masturbation
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
The ovaries and the testes.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
44. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
Motor drive
Genetic and environmental factors.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Relational aggression
45. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Slower
Kitchen.
46. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
controlling conflict within a social group.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
throw a ball overhand.
Internalizing problems.
47. having extended family involved in their lives.
The survival goal.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Conservation.
Socioeconomic status.
48. In their study of planning - Gardner and Rogoff found that
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49. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
Formal operations
Emphasize obedience.
Internalizing problems.
. Decoding
50. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
Decrease in efficiency
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Social interaction