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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.
Personality formation
Conservation.
Piaget
Social and emotional development.

2. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Stage 4
Creative arts
. saturated self.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

3. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...
Empathy
Prosocial behavior
Differential reinforcement
Girls report feelings of coercion.

4. The memory strategy that involves making connections between two or more things to be remembered is called...
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Elaboration.
Flynn effect.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning

5. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Cultural socialization
Risky and potentially harmful.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Mental operations.

6. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
Realistic mathematics education.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Internalizing problems.

7. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
Microsystem
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Disciplinarian
A performance orientation.

8. A male's first ejaculation is called...
Relational aggression
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
clique
Spermarche.

9. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Motor drive
Plan ahead.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.

10. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Decreases; remains the same
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Improvement in social status

11. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.
slowly
Decreases; remains the same
Puberty.
to be enrolled in preschool

12. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
positive emotions
Piaget
Masturbation
Authoritative

13. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Relational aggression
Internalizing problems.
Improvement in social status
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.

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

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15. 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.
Identification through differentiation
Sociodramatic play
Risky and potentially harmful.
The model does not include a morality of care.

16. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Identity formation
Foreclosure.
Conservation.
Improvement in social status

17. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
Prevention science.
Inability to categorize objects
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

18. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
positive emotions
Slower
Puberty.
Biological maturation.

19. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
puberty
Decoding.
Skipping.
An infusion of pubertal hormones

20. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?
The model does not include a morality of care.
Egocentrism
Uterus growth.
Genetic and environmental factors.

21. 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.
to be enrolled in preschool
An entity model of intelligence.
Identification through differentiation

22. 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...
The ovaries and the testes.
Prevention science.
Conservation.
Authoritative

23. Whose theory of adolescent development believed that adolescence is the consequence of evolutionary processes?
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Exosystem.
Piaget
Risky and potentially harmful.

24. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
Formal operations
Theory of mind.
to be enrolled in preschool
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking

25. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
Reciprocal teaching.
Financial recession.
. Decoding
Identification.

26. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
. children older than seven years of age
Chlamydia
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.

27. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?
Chlamydia
Inability to categorize objects
Genetic and environmental factors.
to be enrolled in preschool

28. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
Moratorium
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
The human papillomavirus.

29. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...
Neighborhood physical disorder.
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
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.

30. Not the result of the maturation of the frontal lobe?
Specific learning disabilities.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Higher levels of intelligence
Cultural socialization

31. In terms of sleep - adolescents...
Sociodramatic play
Need about 8 hours.
Relational aggression
Sociodramatic play.

32. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
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
Computer.
Exosystem.
. children older than seven years of age

33. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
Compensation.
At risk for obesity.
Slower
Cultural socialization

34. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...
Exosystem.
Compensation.
Flynn effect.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.

35. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
Metamemory.
positive emotions
Prosocial behavior
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.

36. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?
. the social goal
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Disciplinarian

37. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Reciprocal teaching.
Identity formation
Decision making
Conservation.

38. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Instrumental aggression.
Effortful control.

39. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
Relational aggression
More rigid
Moratorium
Identity formation

40. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
controlling conflict within a social group.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
A. more wooden buttons.

41. One of the key aspects of Piaget's formal operations involves...
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Exosystem.
At risk for obesity.

42. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Authoritative
Auxiliary hair appears

43. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'
Personal and social conventional
Inability to categorize objects
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence

44. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...
Gina - an early-maturing female
A scale error
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Socialization.

45. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Uneven and variable
Specific learning disabilities.

46. The term gonads refers to...
An entity model of intelligence.
Homophily.
Not supported by research
The ovaries and the testes.

47. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
clique
Agility.
Higher levels of intelligence
. the social goal

48. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
A scale error
Identity integration
Kitchen.
Social and emotional development.

49. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Risky and potentially harmful.
An entity model of intelligence.
Conservation.
Increases; decreases

50. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...
Skipping.
An entity model of intelligence.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.