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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 ____________






2. Not a protective factor






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?






4. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...






5. Not the result of the maturation of the frontal lobe?






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






7. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...






8. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'






9. Not considered to be a privileged domain?






10. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...






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...






12. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?






13. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...






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






15. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.






16. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...






17. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.






18. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...






19. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?






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...






21. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...






22. The memory strategy that involves making connections between two or more things to be remembered is called...






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...






24. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...






25. Piaget believed that the greatest limitation to young children's thinking was...






26. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...






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...






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






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






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...






32. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...






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






34. The term gonads refers to...






35. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?






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?






37. Cross-cultural research on the effects of schooling suggests that schooling...






38. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.






39. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.






40. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...






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.






42. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.






43. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.






44. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...






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?






46. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...






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...






48. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.






49. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...






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