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Human Development - HDFC

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1. 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






2. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...






3. Not considered to be a privileged domain?






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






5. In their study of planning - Gardner and Rogoff found that


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






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






8. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?






9. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...






10. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?






11. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.






12. having extended family involved in their lives.






13. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?






14. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?






15. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...






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






17. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?






18. 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...






19. A male's first ejaculation is called...






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






21. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?


22. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...






23. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...






24. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.






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. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...






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






28. Which type of aggression are preschool aged girls more likely to engage in than preschool boys?






29. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?






30. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?






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






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






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






34. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?






35. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation






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






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






38. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?






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






40. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...






41. 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 ____________






42. A child's ability to recognize that two rows of pennies each with the same number of pennies have the same number of pennies when one row of pennies is longer than the other is called...






43. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...






44. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits






45. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...






46. Not the result of the maturation of the frontal lobe?






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






48. Similarity between friends can contribute to...






49. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...






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