Human Development - HDFC

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1. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?
Decision making
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Identity assumption


2. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Confusing appearance and reality.
Auxiliary hair appears
Microsystem


3. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Authoritarian
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Elaboration.
Creative arts


4. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Specific learning disabilities.
Autobiographical memory.
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Decrease in efficiency


5. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Genetic and environmental factors.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Motor drive


6. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
Experience sampling method.
Empathy
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Identity integration


7. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
clique
A scale error
throw a ball overhand.
Risky and potentially harmful.


8. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...
more
Neighborhood physical disorder.
stereotypes
Multiple intelligences.


9. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...
Improvement in social status
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Exosystem.
When parents are not getting along


10. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
. saturated self.
12 to 15 hours
Mental operations.
clique


11. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Not supported by research
Social interaction


12. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Uneven and variable
Slower
Masturbation
Biological maturation.


13. 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?
Mental operations.
More rigid
Need about 8 hours.
Identity assumption


14. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?
More rigid
Inability to categorize objects
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.


15. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Decoding.
Postconventional level
Decreases; remains the same


16. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
to be enrolled in preschool
Deviancy in adolescence.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.


17. The memory strategy that involves making connections between two or more things to be remembered is called...
Elaboration.
Uneven and variable
Higher levels of intelligence
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.


18. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
Independent.
Dyslexia.
Masturbation
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks


19. Authoritarian
Social and emotional development.
Gay and lesbian parents
Specific learning disabilities.
Decreases; remains the same


20. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
clique
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Elaboration.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.


21. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
transductive reasoning
Thought processes.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Dyslexia.


22. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Dyslexia.
An infusion of pubertal hormones


23. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Cultural socialization
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking


24. 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?
Uterus growth.
An entity model of intelligence.
Personal and social conventional
Instrumental aggression.


25. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

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26. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
Auxiliary hair appears
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Decision making
support emotion and security needs.


27. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
transductive reasoning
positive emotions
The human papillomavirus.


28. 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?
Identity assumption
Postconventional level
Chlamydia
Multiple intelligences.


29. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Theory of mind.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Risky and potentially harmful.


30. Which of the following statements about the development of the brain during early childhood is TRUE?

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

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32. According to Piaget -...
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
support emotion and security needs.
Realistic mathematics education.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.


33. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning


34. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Authoritarian
Puberty.
Emphasize obedience.


35. Adolescent ethnic identity formation is not strong when...
. psychodynamic view
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Social and emotional development.


36. How many hours of sleep in a 24-hour period should a child between the ages of 2 and 5 get?
Biological maturation.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Cultural socialization
12 to 15 hours


37. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
The model does not include a morality of care.
Uterus growth.
Puberty.


38. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
Socioeconomic status.
Sociodramatic play
Experience sampling method.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking


39. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?
more
Authoritative
Not supported by research
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.


40. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Independent.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.


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

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42. 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...
Moratorium
Decreases; remains the same
Uneven and variable
Autobiographical memory.


43. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
positive emotions
Prosocial behavior
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Interdependence


44. having extended family involved in their lives.
Internalizing problems.
The survival goal.
. saturated self.
When parents are not getting along


45. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Authoritative
Compensation.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Thought processes.


46. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
throw a ball overhand.
Privileged domains.
. Decoding
Sensory register


47. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
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
Identification.
Privileged domains.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.


48. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Agility.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
. psychodynamic view
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.


49. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Moratorium
. Decoding
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.


50. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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