Human Development - HDFC

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

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2. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Relational aggression


3. 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 ____________
Social conventional; personal
Exosystem.
Interdependence
Instrumental aggression.


4. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
Identity assumption
Homophily.
. Decoding
Rehearsal.


5. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Reciprocal teaching.
Homophily.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)


6. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
Social conventional; personal
positive emotions
Rehearsal.
Foreclosure.


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

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8. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
Script.
Flynn effect.
Effortful control.
Confusing appearance and reality.


9. The extent to which friends are similar to one another is referred to as...
Gay and lesbian parents
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Homophily.


10. Not a risk factor for child abuse?
The survival goal.
. children older than seven years of age
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.


11. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Empathy
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Interdependence


12. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
School-cutoff strategy.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Effortful control.


13. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Gay and lesbian parents


14. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?
Enabling interactions
Genetic and environmental factors.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
. the social goal


15. __________ 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.
Dyslexia.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Exosystem.
Apprenticeship


16. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Improvement in social status
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Elaboration.


17. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Emotional climate of family
Masturbation
Violence
Formal operations


18. 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...
Uterus growth.
Compensation.
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.
Confusing appearance and reality.


19. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Interdependence
More
Flynn effect.
Decoding.


20. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
puberty
Internalizing problems.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.


21. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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22. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?
Independent.
Identification.
Stage 4
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children


23. A primary sex characteristic...
Inability to categorize objects
Improvement in social status
Personality formation
Uterus growth.


24. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Financial recession.
Multiple intelligences.
Decrease in efficiency
. the social goal


25. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Me-self
Personal distress
Identification.
Neighborhood physical disorder.


26. A male's first ejaculation is called...
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Spermarche.
Biological maturation.


27. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Rehearsal.
Auxiliary hair appears


28. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
Interdependence
Emerging adulthood.
A scale error
Elaboration.


29. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
Self-regulatory capacity.
Transductivity.
Cultural socialization
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking


30. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Instrumental aggression.
Risky and potentially harmful.


31. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
At risk for obesity.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
support emotion and security needs.
Higher levels of intelligence


32. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
Gina - an early-maturing female
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Rehearsal.


33. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
Elaboration.
Rehearsal.
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Social interaction


34. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Prevention science.
Internalizing problems.
Compensation.


35. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
. saturated self.
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.
Homophily.
The survival goal.


36. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
transductive reasoning
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning


37. Adolescent ethnic identity formation is not strong when...
clique
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Chlamydia


38. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

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39. Kohlberg's process of sex-role development mostly closely follows...

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40. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
puberty
slowly
Sociodramatic play
Computer.


41. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
Gay and lesbian parents
Emerging adulthood.
Emotional climate of family
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)


42. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Realistic mathematics education.
Experience sampling method.


43. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits
Me-self
Formal operations
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
. the social goal


44. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
Self-regulatory capacity.
Thought processes.
Personality formation
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking


45. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
Risky and potentially harmful.
Auxiliary hair appears
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Theory of mind.


46. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?
Auxiliary hair appears
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
A. more wooden buttons.
clique


47. having extended family involved in their lives.
Compensation.
Computer.
The survival goal.
Thought processes.


48. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
The ovaries and the testes.
Personal and social conventional
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Puberty.


49. Research on fathers suggests that...
Masturbation
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
The survival goal.
Authoritarian


50. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
clique
Enabling interactions