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Human Development - HDFC

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1. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...






2. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.






3. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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4. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...






5. having extended family involved in their lives.






6. Not considered to be a privileged domain?






7. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.






8. A primary sex characteristic...






9. Various studies of the influence of television violence on children's behavior have found...






10. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...






11. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...






12. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.






13. The understanding that the properties of an object or substance remain the same even if its appearance is altered in some superficial way is called...






14. Not a way schooling differs from traditional apprenticeship training?

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15. 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...






16. When talking about their sexual debut -...






17. Which approach does the idea that theory of mind develops from primitive theories of how the world works that are present at birth and modified through experience in the world follow?






18. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?






19. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...






20. Not a protective factor






21. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?






22. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration






23. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?






24. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...






25. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress






26. When three-year-old children are told a story about a little boy who puts candy in a drawer - leaves the room - and doesn't see when his mother then moves the candy into the kitchen - they predict the boy will look for the candy in the...






27. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.






28. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...






29. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?






30. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...






31. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?






32. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?






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?






34. In adolescence - cliques serve to...






35. According to Piaget -...






36. The school-cutoff strategy helps researchers to...

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37. 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.






38. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.






39. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...






40. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...






41. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.






42. Alfred Binet is known for creating...






43. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.






44. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?






45. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...






46. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...






47. Studies comparing schooled and nonschooled students have demonstrated that...






48. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.






49. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...






50. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...