Human Development - HDFC

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

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2. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Emotional climate of family
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Personal distress
Privileged domains.


3. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
Relational aggression
Social and emotional development.
stereotypes
Mental operations.


4. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Sensory register
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Me-self


5. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
Violence
Identification through differentiation
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning


6. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Chlamydia
positive emotions
throw a ball overhand.
Uneven and variable


7. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
Higher levels of intelligence
Stage 4
A scale error
Cultural socialization


8. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
Uneven and variable
Socioeconomic status.
transductive reasoning
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.


9. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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10. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Stage 4
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Improvement in social status


11. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
Conservation.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives


12. NOT characteristic of school problems?
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
more
Internalizing problems.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.


13. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Formal operations
Formal operations.
Piaget


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

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15. Authoritarian
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Social and emotional development.
Mental operations.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.


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

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17. In their study of planning - Gardner and Rogoff found that

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18. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Flynn effect.
Multiple intelligences.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Independent.


19. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
controlling conflict within a social group.
Dyslexia.
An entity model of intelligence.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.


20. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
throw a ball overhand.
to be enrolled in preschool
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
The survival goal.


21. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
Gay and lesbian parents
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Moratorium
Having extended family involved in their lives.


22. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Identity integration
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Interdependence


23. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
Postconventional level
stereotypes
Theory of mind.
Social intelligence.


24. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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25. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
At risk for obesity.
Apprenticeship
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.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.


26. 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...
Identity integration
transductive reasoning
Compensation.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.


27. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Identification.
Gina - an early-maturing female
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy


28. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...
Agility.
Sociodramatic play.
Prevention science.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.


29. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
Puberty.
Microsystem
puberty
Social conventional; personal


30. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Homophily.
Apprenticeship


31. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
Increases; decreases
clique
throw a ball overhand.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.


32. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
Masturbation
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Flynn effect.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.


33. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
More
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
12 to 15 hours
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'


34. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.
Identification.
Uterus growth.
Authoritative
At risk for obesity.


35. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...
Decreases; remains the same
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Empathy
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.


36. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...
Self-regulatory capacity.
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
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
School-cutoff strategy.


37. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?
. the social goal
More rigid
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Slower


38. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Flynn effect.
The human papillomavirus.
Genetic and environmental factors.


39. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
Increases
Interdependence
Identity formation
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)


40. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...
Metamemory.
Confusing appearance and reality.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Emerging adulthood.


41. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
Violence
. psychodynamic view
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.


42. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Experience sampling method.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.


43. Adolescent ethnic identity formation is not strong when...
Decision making
Identity integration
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
School-cutoff strategy.


44. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.
Differential reinforcement
transductive reasoning
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.


45. In which stage of forming a sexual minority development would an individual who has had homosexual experiences and recognizes that they prefer sexual relations with members of their own sex but do not openly acknowledge their preference be?
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Identity assumption
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.


46. If a 5-year-old watches a little girl put a piece of candy into a drawer in the kitchen and then watches the girl's mother move the piece of candy to the refrigerator without the little girl knowing - where will the 5-year-old say the little girl wil
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
positive emotions
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
The drawer in the in kitchen


47. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Script.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.


48. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
When parents are not getting along


49. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
Not supported by research
Inability to categorize objects
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Compensation.


50. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
Financial recession.
Emerging adulthood.
Improvement in social status
throw a ball overhand.