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Human Development - HDFC

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...






2. On average - boys are not better than girls at...






3. Findings from the research of Kenneth and Mamie Clark has led psychologists to conclude that...






4. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...






5. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...






6. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...






7. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?






8. 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?






9. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...






10. Alfred Binet is known for creating...






11. 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.






12. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...






13. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...






14. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...






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

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16. According to information-processing approach to cognitive development - before stimulation from the environment (or 'input') can be stored in either short-term memory or long-term memory - it must pass through the...






17. 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.






18. Piaget believed that the greatest limitation to young children's thinking was...






19. In Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning - at which level does reasoning require people to go beyond the existing social conventions to consider more abstract principles of right and wrong?






20. 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...






21. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...






22. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...






23. 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?






24. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...






25. Research on fathers suggests that...






26. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that






27. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...






28. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...






29. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?






30. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.






31. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...






32. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...






33. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...






34. 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...






35. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?






36. Authoritarian






37. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?






38. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...






39. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?






40. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...






41. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...






42. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?






43. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'






44. A primary sex characteristic...






45. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...






46. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...






47. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has






48. Children adopting an entity theory of intelligence are more likely than others to...

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49. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?






50. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?