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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Authoritarian
Identification.
More
A performance orientation.

2. Studies comparing schooled and nonschooled students have demonstrated that...
Reciprocal teaching.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

3. Not a protective factor
Financial recession.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.

4. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
Emerging adulthood.
Differential reinforcement
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.

5. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Identification through differentiation
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.

6. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
Realistic mathematics education.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Identification through differentiation
The model does not include a morality of care.

7. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.
Decreases; remains the same
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Privileged domains.

8. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
. children older than seven years of age
Homophily.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
When parents are not getting along

9. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?
Violence
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Mental operations.
Internalizing problems.

10. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
to be enrolled in preschool
Privileged domains.
Dyslexia.

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

12. In terms of sleep - adolescents...
Violence
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Need about 8 hours.
Transductivity.

13. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
The human papillomavirus.
Theory of mind.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Deviancy in adolescence.

14. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?
Realistic mathematics education.
More rigid
Creative arts
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

15. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Skipping.
Chlamydia
Personal and social conventional
. Decoding

16. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
Piaget
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
throw a ball overhand.
controlling conflict within a social group.

17. Whose theory of adolescent development believed that adolescence is the consequence of evolutionary processes?
Piaget
Conservation.
Identification.
Gina - an early-maturing female

18. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Authoritative
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Flynn effect.

19. Research on parent-adolescent relationships suggests that a great deal of conflict arises because of differences in opinion about the boundaries between which two social domains?
Theory theory
Effortful control.
Violence
Personal and social conventional

20. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
Not supported by research
controlling conflict within a social group.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
slowly

21. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Decrease in efficiency
Personality formation

22. Cross-cultural studies of concrete operations demonstrate that...

23. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?
Auxiliary hair appears
Violence
Computer.
Enabling interactions

24. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
Cultural socialization
Disciplinarian
The ovaries and the testes.
More

25. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Authoritarian
Socialization.

26. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
The survival goal.
. psychodynamic view
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Confusing appearance and reality.

27. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Masturbation
Metamemory.
Increases

28. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Enabling interactions
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Prevention science.

29. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.
Me-self
. Decoding
transductive reasoning
Uterus growth.

30. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.
Egocentrism
Personality formation
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Sociodramatic play

31. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...
Need about 8 hours.
Exosystem.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy

32. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...
Instrumental aggression.
Dyslexia.
Plan ahead.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.

33. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
. psychodynamic view
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Authoritative

34. When it comes to television - children between the ages of 4 and 5...

35. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
support emotion and security needs.
puberty
Uneven and variable
Decision making

36. 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?
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Socioeconomic status.
Identity integration
Skipping.

37. 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...
The Oedipus complex.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Stage 4
to be enrolled in preschool

38. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
positive emotions
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.

39. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
Theory of mind.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

40. Which type of aggression are preschool aged girls more likely to engage in than preschool boys?
Sociodramatic play.
Relational aggression
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

41. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Prevention science.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Puberty.

42. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.
Social interaction
Authoritative
Emphasize obedience.
When parents are not getting along

43. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Agility.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
support emotion and security needs.
Increases

44. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Sociodramatic play.
Social intelligence.
Kitchen.

45. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Sensory register
Social conventional; personal
Foreclosure.
More

46. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
Skipping.
Compensation.
Increases; decreases
Social interaction

47. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
Empathy
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Decrease in efficiency
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.

48. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
Formal operations
Slower
. children older than seven years of age
A performance orientation.

49. 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 ____________
Genetic and environmental factors.
Computer.
Social conventional; personal
The drawer in the in kitchen

50. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
positive emotions
The survival goal.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Rehearsal.