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. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
. Decoding
Confusing appearance and reality.
direct instruction - Play
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.

2. The use of meaningful activities - supporting basic skills - and employing mathematical models in the learning of math are components of...
The model does not include a morality of care.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Realistic mathematics education.
A performance orientation.

3. 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?
Realistic mathematics education.
to be enrolled in preschool
Cultural socialization
Masturbation

4. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Cultural socialization
Personal and social conventional
positive emotions
Decrease in efficiency

5. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Differential reinforcement
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.

6. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Agility.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Prosocial behavior

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

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

9. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
An entity model of intelligence.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Improvement in social status

10. Which approach does the idea that theory of mind develops from primitive theories of how the world works that are present at birth and modified through experience in the world follow?
Improvement in social status
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Theory theory
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.

11. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Conservation.
Identity integration
Uneven and variable
12 to 15 hours

12. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
Socialization.
Identity formation
Sociodramatic play
Social interaction

13. Which view of moral development suggests that children acquire a sense of What is right and wrong from internalizing the moral standards of their parents?
Need about 8 hours.
. psychodynamic view
Violence
Emerging adulthood.

14. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
puberty
Moratorium
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.

15. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Elaboration.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Motor drive

16. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...
Instrumental aggression.
puberty
positive emotions
Risky and potentially harmful.

17. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
Financial recession.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
clique

18. Not the result of the maturation of the frontal lobe?
Personal and social conventional
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Higher levels of intelligence
Theory theory

19. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
The survival goal.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Cultural socialization
Conservation.

20. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Deviancy in adolescence.
Social intelligence.
Theory of mind.
Mental operations.

21. 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?
Identity assumption
Decision making
12 to 15 hours
Emotional climate of family

22. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...
Formal operations.
12 to 15 hours
Skipping.
transductive reasoning

23. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
When parents are not getting along
Flynn effect.
Me-self
Compensation.

24. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
Sensory register
Improvement in social status
Not supported by research
Cultural socialization

25. having extended family involved in their lives.
Socioeconomic status.
The survival goal.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

26. According to Piaget -...
Uneven and variable
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Specific learning disabilities.
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

27. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Computer.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Personal and social conventional
Specific learning disabilities.

28. Research on fathers suggests that...
Need about 8 hours.
Piaget
controlling conflict within a social group.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.

29. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Kitchen.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Sociodramatic play
Personal distress

30. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
Self-regulatory capacity.
Effortful control.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.

31. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...
Specific learning disabilities.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
A. more wooden buttons.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.

32. 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 ____________
A performance orientation.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Theory of mind.
Social conventional; personal

33. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

34. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes
Authoritative
Script.
More rigid
Plan ahead.

35. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?
Creative arts
Improvement in social status
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
A scale error

36. A child reasons that the change in the level of a quantity of liquid brought about by pouring it from a short - wide beaker to a tall - narrow beaker is not caused by a change in the amount of the liquid - but by the fact that the taller beaker is al
Compensation.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.

37. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
Multiple intelligences.
Kitchen.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
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

38. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Flynn effect.
Social intelligence.
Decision making

39. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
Me-self
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Personality formation
Puberty.

40. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation
The Oedipus complex.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.

41. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
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
Microsystem
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'

42. A child's ability to recognize that two rows of pennies each with the same number of pennies have the same number of pennies when one row of pennies is longer than the other is called...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Conservation.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.

43. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
When parents are not getting along
Emotional climate of family

44. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
Identification through differentiation
Specific learning disabilities.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.

45. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
Postconventional level
The Oedipus complex.
Masturbation
Independent.

46. The term gonads refers to...
The ovaries and the testes.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
When parents are not getting along
slowly

47. 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...
Formal operations
Emphasize obedience.
Socialization.
Personal and social conventional

48. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Not supported by research
Moratorium
Authoritative

49. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
support emotion and security needs.
Internalizing problems.
Conservation.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.

50. The fear - guilt - and conflict stirred up by a boy's desire to kill his father and live with his mother taking his father's place is known as...
Internalizing problems.
An entity model of intelligence.
The Oedipus complex.
Reciprocal teaching.