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Human Development - HDFC

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1. In this stage of sexual identity development are sexual-minority individuals who have come to terms with their homosexuality and are 'out' in their communities?
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Identity integration
Flynn effect.
Formal operations

2. 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?
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Postconventional level
Rehearsal.
Autobiographical memory.

3. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
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.
Financial recession.
Microsystem
direct instruction - Play

4. In terms of sleep - adolescents...
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Need about 8 hours.

5. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Independent.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.

6. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
Thought processes.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Independent.
Chlamydia

7. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Formal operations
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Prosocial behavior

8. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?
positive emotions
more
Theory of mind.
Egocentrism

9. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Rehearsal.

10. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Stage 4
. saturated self.
Moratorium

11. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Agility.
At risk for obesity.

12. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Prosocial behavior
Theory theory
Flynn effect.
Formal operations

13. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Risky and potentially harmful.
Formal operations.
Slower
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.

14. 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...
Empathy
Agility.
Decision making
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

15. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
More
Gay and lesbian parents
Privileged domains.
Dyslexia.

16. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
The survival goal.
Experience sampling method.
Uneven and variable
Sociodramatic play

17. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

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18. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
Inability to categorize objects
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Compensation.
stereotypes

19. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Agility.
Foreclosure.
Decreases; remains the same
Cultural socialization

20. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Creative arts
Independent.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence

21. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...
slowly
Social intelligence.
Personal and social conventional
Metamemory.

22. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?
Egocentrism
Gina - an early-maturing female
The human papillomavirus.
Motor drive

23. Not the result of the maturation of the frontal lobe?
Exosystem.
Higher levels of intelligence
transductive reasoning
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.

24. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
Authoritative
Postconventional level
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.

25. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Gay and lesbian parents
Financial recession.
Personal distress
Personal and social conventional

26. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Plan ahead.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
The drawer in the in kitchen

27. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
Kitchen.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Identity formation
Metamemory.

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

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29. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Increases; decreases
Personal distress
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Prosocial behavior

30. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Social intelligence.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Authoritarian

31. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
throw a ball overhand.
Social intelligence.
Conservation.
Specific learning disabilities.

32. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
Reciprocal teaching.
Prevention science.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
controlling conflict within a social group.

33. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...
Plan ahead.
Genetic and environmental factors.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

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

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35. A child sharing her apple slice with another child is an example of...
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Personality formation
Prosocial behavior

36. According to Piaget -...
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.

37. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...
Increases; decreases
Socioeconomic status.
Exosystem.
Sociodramatic play

38. 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...
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Social conventional; personal
puberty
Conservation.

39. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Higher levels of intelligence
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy

40. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Improvement in social status
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Risky and potentially harmful.

41. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...
Script.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Rehearsal.

42. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
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
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.

43. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...
positive emotions
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
. Decoding
Enabling interactions

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

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45. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Creative arts
Genetic and environmental factors.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.

46. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Enabling interactions
The survival goal.
Neighborhood physical disorder.

47. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?
Privileged domains.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Compensation.

48. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.
A scale error
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Identity formation
Authoritative

49. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Specific learning disabilities.
positive emotions
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Moratorium

50. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
Improvement in social status
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Internalizing problems.
School-cutoff strategy.