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Human Development - HDFC

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1. 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 ____________
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Social conventional; personal
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
clique

2. Not a protective factor
Disciplinarian
Financial recession.
positive emotions
Rehearsal.

3. 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?
Decision making
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Personal and social conventional
stereotypes

4. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
The human papillomavirus.
. saturated self.
Metamemory.

5. Not the result of the maturation of the frontal lobe?
Higher levels of intelligence
slowly
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Decision making

6. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Prevention science.
Relational aggression
A performance orientation.
Moratorium

7. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
Emphasize obedience.
The model does not include a morality of care.
More rigid
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

8. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'
Uneven and variable
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Thought processes.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

9. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Creative arts
Sociodramatic play
When parents are not getting along
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

10. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
Emphasize obedience.
Disciplinarian
Reciprocal teaching.
Privileged domains.

11. Studies of poor families suggest that such factors as stress - the dangerous circumstances of daily life in poor areas - and the nature of parents' jobs tend to cause poor parents to...
More rigid
Decrease in efficiency
Emphasize obedience.
Inability to categorize objects

12. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Flynn effect.
12 to 15 hours
Differential reinforcement

13. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
Auxiliary hair appears
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
Agility.
Computer.

14. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Personal and social conventional
Skipping.
Personal distress
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

15. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.
Identification.
Realistic mathematics education.
slowly
Conservation.

16. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
Disciplinarian
Cultural socialization
Exosystem.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.

17. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
More
stereotypes
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.

18. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...
Identity integration
Formal operations
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Internalizing problems.

19. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Internalizing problems.
Personal distress
Compensation.

20. A teacher and a small group of students read silently through segments of text and take turns leading discussion of their meaning. This is an example of...
Elaboration.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Empathy
Reciprocal teaching.

21. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Decreases; remains the same
Emerging adulthood.
An entity model of intelligence.

22. The memory strategy that involves making connections between two or more things to be remembered is called...
Elaboration.
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
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children

23. 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...
Risky and potentially harmful.
Kitchen.
Social and emotional development.
Autobiographical memory.

24. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
Egocentrism
Emphasize obedience.
Identity integration
Social intelligence.

25. Piaget believed that the greatest limitation to young children's thinking was...
Agility.
At risk for obesity.
Transductivity.
Elaboration.

26. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Inability to categorize objects
Elaboration.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.

27. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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28. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...
Flynn effect.
positive emotions
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Differential reinforcement

29. When talking about their sexual debut -...
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Identity integration
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.

30. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
controlling conflict within a social group.
Identification.
Flynn effect.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

31. Five-year-old Jacob is playing with his grandmother's buttons. He counts eight wooden buttons and three plastic buttons. When his grandmother asks Jacob if he has more wooden buttons or more buttons - he will most likely indicate that there are...
Girls report feelings of coercion.
A. more wooden buttons.
The survival goal.
Gay and lesbian parents

32. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Biological maturation.
Motor drive
Internalizing problems.
Independent.

33. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
Specific learning disabilities.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Empathy
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

34. The term gonads refers to...
Sociodramatic play
Egocentrism
The ovaries and the testes.
Apprenticeship

35. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Need about 8 hours.
Decrease in efficiency
support emotion and security needs.
Postconventional level

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?
. the social goal
Identity integration
Sociodramatic play
Cultural socialization

37. Cross-cultural research on the effects of schooling suggests that schooling...
Internalizing problems.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Elaboration.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.

38. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
puberty
12 to 15 hours

39. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
Social interaction
Emotional climate of family
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
The ovaries and the testes.

40. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
Script.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Puberty.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks

41. 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.
Flynn effect.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Enabling interactions
Sociodramatic play

42. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.
positive emotions
The drawer in the in kitchen
Decreases; remains the same
Compensation.

43. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
Violence
Privileged domains.
Agility.
Enabling interactions

44. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
Personal distress
Effortful control.
Compensation.
Transductivity.

45. Vygotsky believed that which of the following plays a key role in self-regulation and can allow children to create their own zones of proximal development?
Differential reinforcement
direct instruction - Play
Dyslexia.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.

46. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Formal operations.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Uterus growth.
12 to 15 hours

47. 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...
Identification.
Autobiographical memory.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Socialization.

48. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.
Identification through differentiation
controlling conflict within a social group.
Conservation.
Authoritative

49. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Effortful control.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.

50. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
Prevention science.
Me-self
Inability to categorize objects
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)