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Human Development - HDFC

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...






2. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...






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

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4. According to information-processing approach to cognitive development - before stimulation from the environment (or 'input') can be stored in either short-term memory or long-term memory - it must pass through the...






5. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...






6. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...






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






8. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...






9. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...






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






11. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...






12. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?






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






14. The most common STI in the U.S. is...






15. Which of the following statements about children's experience with interactive media is NOT true?

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






17. 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.






18. 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...






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






20. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...






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






22. In terms of sleep - adolescents...






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






24. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...






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






26. Borke's replication of Piaget and Inhelder's three-mountain experiment in which children were presented with a Sesame Street character that drove around familiar landmarks demonstrated that three- and four-year-old children are capable of...






27. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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






29. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...






30. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.






31. The use of meaningful activities - supporting basic skills - and employing mathematical models in the learning of math are components of...






32. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...






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






34. On average - boys are not better than girls at...






35. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes






36. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...






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






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






39. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...






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






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






42. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...






43. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...






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






45. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...






46. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...






47. having extended family involved in their lives.






48. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...






49. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?






50. Alfred Binet is known for creating...