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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
Sensory register
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Relational aggression
Microsystem

2. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
At risk for obesity.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Moratorium
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate

3. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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4. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...
School-cutoff strategy.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
The survival goal.
Identification.

5. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
Transductivity.
Apprenticeship
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
An infusion of pubertal hormones

6. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Gina - an early-maturing female
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

7. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...
positive emotions
Differential reinforcement
Financial recession.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy

8. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.
Foreclosure.
slowly
Personality formation
clique

9. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...
Socialization.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Identity assumption

10. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Experience sampling method.
Egocentrism
Self-regulatory capacity.

11. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Motor drive
Uterus growth.

12. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Authoritarian
Specific learning disabilities.
Sensory register
Improvement in social status

13. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
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
Instrumental aggression.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.

14. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
Spermarche.
puberty
Apprenticeship
throw a ball overhand.

15. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Slower
Social intelligence.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Agility.

16. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
Spermarche.
to be enrolled in preschool
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Increases; decreases

17. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Multiple intelligences.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Decrease in efficiency
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

18. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
Transductivity.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
slowly
Theory of mind.

19. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
An entity model of intelligence.
Formal operations.
Computer.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

20. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
Risky and potentially harmful.
Autobiographical memory.
Rehearsal.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

21. 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...
Autobiographical memory.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Empathy
Experience sampling method.

22. 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.
Disciplinarian
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Increases
Realistic mathematics education.

23. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
Emerging adulthood.
Financial recession.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Identification.

24. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...
Decision making
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Theory theory
Authoritative

25. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
Formal operations.
At risk for obesity.
support emotion and security needs.
Homophily.

26. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Creative arts
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Me-self
When parents are not getting along

27. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Identity integration
Emerging adulthood.

28. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Relational aggression

29. A child sharing her apple slice with another child is an example of...
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Kitchen.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Prosocial behavior

30. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?
Identity assumption
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Plan ahead.
Culture-sensitive instruction.

31. A male's first ejaculation is called...
Conservation.
School-cutoff strategy.
Spermarche.
Elaboration.

32. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
Relational aggression
Genetic and environmental factors.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Puberty.

33. In Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning - at which level does reasoning require people to go beyond the existing social conventions to consider more abstract principles of right and wrong?
Authoritative
Risky and potentially harmful.
Postconventional level
Social intelligence.

34. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Sociodramatic play.
Enabling interactions
Computer.

35. Which type of aggression are preschool aged girls more likely to engage in than preschool boys?
Relational aggression
Not supported by research
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Motor drive

36. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
support emotion and security needs.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Social interaction
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children

37. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
. Decoding
Authoritarian
Rehearsal.
positive emotions

38. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Personal distress
Chlamydia
Empathy

39. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Violence
clique
Biological maturation.

40. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Rehearsal.
Inability to categorize objects

41. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
At risk for obesity.
The model does not include a morality of care.

42. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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43. 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...
Thought processes.
Experience sampling method.
Decreases; remains the same
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.

44. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
At risk for obesity.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Identity assumption

45. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Instrumental aggression.
to be enrolled in preschool

46. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
stereotypes
Empathy
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Cultural socialization

47. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
An entity model of intelligence.
Inability to categorize objects
Prevention science.

48. having extended family involved in their lives.
The survival goal.
Authoritative
12 to 15 hours
Piaget

49. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
Confusing appearance and reality.
More
Genetic and environmental factors.
Masturbation

50. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Biological maturation.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Microsystem
The Oedipus complex.