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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Self-regulatory capacity.
Creative arts
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Uneven and variable

2. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Internalizing problems.
Increases; decreases

3. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Emerging adulthood.
Piaget
to be enrolled in preschool

4. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits
12 to 15 hours
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Me-self

5. 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 ____________
Internalizing problems.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Social conventional; personal
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

6. Research on parent-adolescent relationships suggests that a great deal of conflict arises because of differences in opinion about the boundaries between which two social domains?
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Personal and social conventional
Decision making
The human papillomavirus.

7. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Transductivity.
Experience sampling method.
Socialization.

8. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
12 to 15 hours
Increases; decreases
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy

9. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Puberty.
Mental operations.
Foreclosure.
The human papillomavirus.

10. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
Plan ahead.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
When parents are not getting along
Increases

11. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.

12. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

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13. Findings from the research of Kenneth and Mamie Clark has led psychologists to conclude that...
Effortful control.
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Transductivity.

14. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes
Masturbation
More rigid
Identity integration
Plan ahead.

15. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...
Dyslexia.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Uterus growth.
Exosystem.

16. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Realistic mathematics education.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Theory theory
Moratorium

17. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Masturbation
Conservation.

18. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Stage 4
Differential reinforcement
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

19. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
An entity model of intelligence.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
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.
Having extended family involved in their lives.

20. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Specific learning disabilities.
Empathy

21. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
More rigid
Disciplinarian
Confusing appearance and reality.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy

22. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Personal distress
Socioeconomic status.
Prosocial behavior
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.

23. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Identification.
Authoritative
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.

24. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
Homophily.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
More
Egocentrism

25. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
Exosystem.
Sociodramatic play.
Internalizing problems.
Socioeconomic status.

26. A teacher and a small group of students read silently through segments of text and take turns leading discussion of their meaning. This is an example of...
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
When parents are not getting along
Reciprocal teaching.
. children older than seven years of age

27. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Cultural socialization
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
. psychodynamic view

28. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
A. more wooden buttons.
Socioeconomic status.
Autobiographical memory.
Puberty.

29. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
Script.
Masturbation
Financial recession.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.

30. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
Stage 4
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Gina - an early-maturing female
Decrease in efficiency

31. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?
Puberty.
Emphasize obedience.
Improvement in social status
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

32. A primary sex characteristic...
Uterus growth.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Agility.
Motor drive

33. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
Uneven and variable
Realistic mathematics education.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Interdependence

34. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
Confusing appearance and reality.
Decreases; remains the same
throw a ball overhand.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate

35. By helping children to recall and interpret events in which they have participated - adults help children acquire an enduring sense of themselves by creating a sort of personal narrative - referred to as the child's...
Social intelligence.
Autobiographical memory.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.

36. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Decreases; remains the same
Masturbation
Biological maturation.
Formal operations.

37. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Emotional climate of family
Emphasize obedience.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

38. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Flynn effect.
Differential reinforcement
Decision making
Increases

39. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
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.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Social interaction
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.

40. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Differential reinforcement
Authoritative
Formal operations.

41. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...
Personal and social conventional
Confusing appearance and reality.
Social interaction
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.

42. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Uneven and variable
Biological maturation.
Authoritarian

43. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
A. more wooden buttons.
Decoding.
The human papillomavirus.
Masturbation

44. 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?
Social and emotional development.
Thought processes.
Identity assumption
Cultural socialization

45. Whose theory of adolescent development believed that adolescence is the consequence of evolutionary processes?
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Social interaction
Piaget
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.

46. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...
Auxiliary hair appears
Effortful control.
Plan ahead.
Postconventional level

47. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...
Dyslexia.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Transductivity.
Neighborhood physical disorder.

48. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Identity integration
Social interaction
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.

49. Cross-cultural studies of concrete operations demonstrate that...

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50. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
Specific learning disabilities.
Identification.
A performance orientation.
Authoritative