Test your basic knowledge |

Human Development - HDFC

Subject : teaching

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Differential reinforcement
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Independent.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

2. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?
Stage 4
. the social goal
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.

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

4. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Slower
Puberty.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence

5. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Decision making
Compensation.
Agility.
School-cutoff strategy.

6. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
A performance orientation.
Cultural socialization
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
controlling conflict within a social group.

7. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
When parents are not getting along
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.

8. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Cultural socialization
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Homophily.
Enabling interactions

9. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
Independent.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

10. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...
Prosocial behavior
Formal operations
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
to be enrolled in preschool

11. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...
The Oedipus complex.
Biological maturation.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Personal and social conventional

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

13. 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?
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
direct instruction - Play
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

14. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Specific learning disabilities.
Increases; decreases
. the social goal
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.

15. 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...
Decision making
A. more wooden buttons.
Elaboration.
Thought processes.

16. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.
Authoritarian
School-cutoff strategy.
Conservation.
Multiple intelligences.

17. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Computer.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks

18. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
Confusing appearance and reality.
direct instruction - Play
Uterus growth.
Masturbation

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

20. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Spermarche.
Identity assumption
Personal and social conventional
Flynn effect.

21. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Theory theory
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Homophily.
. saturated self.

22. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
Gina - an early-maturing female
Personal distress
Thought processes.
Deviancy in adolescence.

23. NOT characteristic of school problems?
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Agility.
School-cutoff strategy.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.

24. Research in which participants carry electronic pagers that beep at random intervals - signaling that they need to fill out a brief report on their current feelings is called...
Gay and lesbian parents
Theory of mind.
Experience sampling method.
Socialization.

25. Adolescent ethnic identity formation is not strong when...
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
When parents are not getting along

26. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Socioeconomic status.
Creative arts
Improvement in social status
. the social goal

27. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
Sociodramatic play
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Cultural socialization
In formal schooling oral instruction is the most common type of instruction while apprenticeship instruction is done through watching and imitating the master's work.

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

29. Research on the use of interactive media suggests that boys who play computer games often spend _________ time with their friends outside of school than boys who spend little to no time playing on the computer.
more
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Internalizing problems.
Computer.

30. Whose theory of adolescent development believed that adolescence is the consequence of evolutionary processes?
Biological maturation.
Need about 8 hours.
Piaget
Identification.

31. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Social interaction
. children older than seven years of age
Disciplinarian
Motor drive

32. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
Interdependence
Computer.
Financial recession.
Sensory register

33. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
An infusion of pubertal hormones
The ovaries and the testes.
Emotional climate of family
Rehearsal.

34. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
controlling conflict within a social group.
An entity model of intelligence.
puberty
Gay and lesbian parents

35. 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...
Internalizing problems.
Disciplinarian
Personal and social conventional
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

36. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?
Experience sampling method.
Inability to categorize objects
Flynn effect.
Script.

37. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Personality formation
Foreclosure.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Independent.

38. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...
Uterus growth.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Uneven and variable

39. When talking about their sexual debut -...
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Socioeconomic status.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Authoritarian

40. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...
Having extended family involved in their lives.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Me-self
Exosystem.

41. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
The human papillomavirus.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Postconventional level

42. Studies comparing schooled and nonschooled students have demonstrated that...
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Identity formation

43. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Sensory register
. Decoding
Decrease in efficiency
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

44. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Emotional climate of family
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
At risk for obesity.
An entity model of intelligence.

45. Authoritative parents are...
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
to be enrolled in preschool
Gay and lesbian parents
Formal operations.

46. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

47. __________ can be characterized as a form of activity that is intermediate between the implicit socialization of everyday family life and the explicit teaching of formal education.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Apprenticeship
Socialization.

48. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Prosocial behavior
Script.
The ovaries and the testes.

49. having extended family involved in their lives.
clique
Violence
The survival goal.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.

50. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Empathy
Dyslexia.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning