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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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...
Formal operations.
More rigid
Compensation.
Socialization.

2. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Decoding.
Instrumental aggression.
Flynn effect.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.

3. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Improvement in social status
Emphasize obedience.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.

4. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...
Creative arts
Experience sampling method.
Interdependence
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.

5. 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...
Emphasize obedience.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Slower
Flynn effect.

6. According to Piaget -...
Authoritative
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
. the social goal
Relational aggression

7. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?
Disciplinarian
Financial recession.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.

8. Cross-cultural studies of concrete operations demonstrate that...

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9. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
Socialization.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
The human papillomavirus.
Identity assumption

10. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
support emotion and security needs.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

11. Not a risk factor for child abuse?
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Social and emotional development.
Increases; decreases
. children older than seven years of age

12. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
to be enrolled in preschool
Enabling interactions
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
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.

13. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.
Mental operations.
transductive reasoning
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks

14. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...
Thought processes.
Higher levels of intelligence
Authoritarian
Spermarche.

15. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?
. the social goal
The survival goal.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
transductive reasoning

16. Findings from the research of Kenneth and Mamie Clark has led psychologists to conclude that...
Stage 4
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
to be enrolled in preschool

17. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
Elaboration.
. children older than seven years of age
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Gay and lesbian parents

18. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...
Identity integration
Skipping.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.

19. Not the result of the maturation of the frontal lobe?
support emotion and security needs.
Higher levels of intelligence
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.

20. 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...
A. more wooden buttons.
Improvement in social status
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Emotional climate of family

21. Not a protective factor
Slower
Financial recession.
Need about 8 hours.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

22. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Emotional climate of family
An entity model of intelligence.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Emerging adulthood.

23. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
Deviancy in adolescence.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Decision making
Creative arts

24. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Risky and potentially harmful.
The survival goal.
Decision making

25. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?
Higher levels of intelligence
Identity assumption
Egocentrism
Identification.

26. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
At risk for obesity.
A performance orientation.
Sensory register
Identity formation

27. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
Empathy
Uterus growth.
A. more wooden buttons.
Chlamydia

28. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Motor drive
Rehearsal.
Auxiliary hair appears

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

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30. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Specific learning disabilities.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Conservation.

31. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...
Compensation.
The model does not include a morality of care.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.

32. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Gay and lesbian parents
Genetic and environmental factors.
puberty

33. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...
. the social goal
Moratorium
Multiple intelligences.
Sociodramatic play.

34. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
controlling conflict within a social group.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Agility.

35. Which of the following categories of racial socialization messages appears to be associated with stronger cognitive abilities and fewer behavior problems among African-American children?
Cultural socialization
Improvement in social status
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

36. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Risky and potentially harmful.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.

37. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...
Identity integration
Prevention science.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.

38. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Personal distress
Mental operations.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.

39. Authoritative parents are...
Risky and potentially harmful.
to be enrolled in preschool
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.

40. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
Masturbation
Identification through differentiation
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
School-cutoff strategy.

41. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
Postconventional level
A scale error
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Not supported by research

42. 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...
Identification through differentiation
. children older than seven years of age
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Homophily.

43. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
Compensation.
Puberty.
throw a ball overhand.
. the social goal

44. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Cultural socialization
Foreclosure.
Flynn effect.

45. Which of the following statements about the development of the brain during early childhood is TRUE?

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46. 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?
Decoding.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Identity integration
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

47. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
Social intelligence.
positive emotions
Personal distress
Social and emotional development.

48. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
Postconventional level
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.

49. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.
slowly
Authoritarian
Theory theory
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

50. 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...
Conservation.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
The Oedipus complex.
Reciprocal teaching.