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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Not a protective factor
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Financial recession.
Gina - an early-maturing female
Need about 8 hours.

2. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
Identity integration
positive emotions
transductive reasoning
Microsystem

3. __________ can be characterized as a form of activity that is intermediate between the implicit socialization of everyday family life and the explicit teaching of formal education.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Apprenticeship
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Compensation.

4. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Postconventional level
Personal distress
Identification.

5. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Kitchen.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
stereotypes

6. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Multiple intelligences.
Reciprocal teaching.
Increases; decreases

7. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
Postconventional level
A scale error
Differential reinforcement
Cultural socialization

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?
. psychodynamic view
Egocentrism
Decoding.
The survival goal.

9. Piaget believed that the greatest limitation to young children's thinking was...
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Transductivity.
Chlamydia
Violence

10. A primary sex characteristic...
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Uterus growth.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Formal operations.

11. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...
Metamemory.
. the social goal
School-cutoff strategy.
Conservation.

12. Authoritarian
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Social and emotional development.
Script.

13. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Emerging adulthood.
Slower
Not supported by research

14. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Me-self
Internalizing problems.
Financial recession.

15. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
Microsystem
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Computer.
support emotion and security needs.

16. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
Increases
Me-self
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Microsystem

17. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
Kitchen.
Theory of mind.
Independent.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy

18. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
. Decoding
Formal operations.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence

19. Which type of aggression are preschool aged girls more likely to engage in than preschool boys?
Autobiographical memory.
Relational aggression
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
The ovaries and the testes.

20. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?
Postconventional level
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Authoritarian
12 to 15 hours

21. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Personal distress
support emotion and security needs.
Kitchen.

22. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

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23. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes
Postconventional level
More rigid
Script.
Improvement in social status

24. 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...
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
The Oedipus complex.
stereotypes
Formal operations

25. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Motor drive
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

26. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Homophily.

27. The term gonads refers to...
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
The ovaries and the testes.
Me-self
Neighborhood physical disorder.

28. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
Uterus growth.
Confusing appearance and reality.
Decrease in efficiency
Computer.

29. Research on young children demonstrates that high levels of ______________ measured at the beginning of a year is associated with high levels of self-regulation when measured later in the same year.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Sociodramatic play
Identity formation
Stage 4

30. 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...
stereotypes
Deviancy in adolescence.
Mental operations.
Conservation.

31. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
Realistic mathematics education.
Personal and social conventional
12 to 15 hours
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

32. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
. the social goal
Dyslexia.
Violence
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.

33. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Multiple intelligences.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Emerging adulthood.

34. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...
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.
Socialization.
Transductivity.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.

35. NOT characteristic of school problems?
Postconventional level
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Chlamydia

36. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Biological maturation.
Motor drive
Creative arts
The Oedipus complex.

37. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
More rigid
Formal operations.
Personal distress
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.

38. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Formal operations.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Social conventional; personal
Computer.

39. 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?
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Postconventional level
An entity model of intelligence.
Empathy

40. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Internalizing problems.
Self-regulatory capacity.

41. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
Prosocial behavior
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
. the social goal
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.

42. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Higher levels of intelligence
controlling conflict within a social group.

43. Children adopting an entity theory of intelligence are more likely than others to...

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44. Alfred Binet is known for creating...
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
The human papillomavirus.
Mental operations.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.

45. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Socioeconomic status.
. Decoding

46. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Personal distress
Metamemory.
At risk for obesity.
Biological maturation.

47. 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
Social intelligence.
Compensation.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Violence

48. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
Motor drive
Gay and lesbian parents
The survival goal.
The model does not include a morality of care.

49. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.
Internalizing problems.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Personality formation
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking

50. Cross-cultural research on the effects of schooling suggests that schooling...
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Improvement in social status
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.