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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Internalizing problems.
Dyslexia.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Multiple intelligences.

2. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
Uneven and variable
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Emerging adulthood.

3. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...
The drawer in the in kitchen
Plan ahead.
Formal operations.
. saturated self.

4. If a 5-year-old watches a little girl put a piece of candy into a drawer in the kitchen and then watches the girl's mother move the piece of candy to the refrigerator without the little girl knowing - where will the 5-year-old say the little girl wil
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Confusing appearance and reality.

5. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
throw a ball overhand.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
A performance orientation.
Decreases; remains the same

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?
Personal and social conventional
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
transductive reasoning

7. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?
Egocentrism
Instrumental aggression.
Violence
Emotional climate of family

8. A primary sex characteristic...
Uterus growth.
Plan ahead.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Inability to categorize objects

9. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...
Decrease in efficiency
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
School-cutoff strategy.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.

10. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Relational aggression
Increases
Self-regulatory capacity.

11. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
A scale error
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
throw a ball overhand.
Authoritative

12. When talking about their sexual debut -...
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Sociodramatic play.
Identification.
Dyslexia.

13. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
12 to 15 hours
. the social goal
Not supported by research
Disciplinarian

14. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Risky and potentially harmful.
Socioeconomic status.
Emphasize obedience.
The model does not include a morality of care.

15. NOT characteristic of school problems?
Identity integration
Need about 8 hours.
Motor drive
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.

16. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Authoritative
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

17. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
Emphasize obedience.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
support emotion and security needs.

18. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Theory theory
More

19. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Improvement in social status
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Biological maturation.

20. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...
Autobiographical memory.
Masturbation
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Cultural socialization

21. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
Skipping.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Cultural socialization
Social intelligence.

22. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Multiple intelligences.
Prosocial behavior
Uterus growth.

23. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Not supported by research
Enabling interactions
Mental operations.

24. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
Internalizing problems.
A. more wooden buttons.
When parents are not getting along
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

25. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...
Differential reinforcement
clique
Decoding.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children

26. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Piaget
stereotypes
Emerging adulthood.

27. One of the key aspects of Piaget's formal operations involves...
Differential reinforcement
Kitchen.
Prevention science.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.

28. A child who says - 'The liquid is higher - but the glass is thinner -' when asked the reason for their answer to a task of conservation is demonstrating...
Genetic and environmental factors.
puberty
Compensation.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.

29. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Inability to categorize objects
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.

30. A child sharing her apple slice with another child is an example of...
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Sociodramatic play
Prosocial behavior

31. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
Privileged domains.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Experience sampling method.
Conservation.

32. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Masturbation
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
More rigid

33. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.
Compensation.
slowly
More
Uterus growth.

34. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?
stereotypes
Emerging adulthood.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Improvement in social status

35. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
Effortful control.
Mental operations.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
throw a ball overhand.

36. 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
More
slowly
puberty

37. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
Conservation.
positive emotions
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
. Decoding

38. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...
Social and emotional development.
Identity formation
Violence
Culture-sensitive instruction.

39. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits
Emotional climate of family
Me-self
Decreases; remains the same
Empathy

40. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.
Script.
Decreases; remains the same
Conservation.
Self-regulatory capacity.

41. 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?
Prevention science.
clique
Empathy
Postconventional level

42. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Authoritative
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Specific learning disabilities.

43. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Decoding.
Mental operations.
Realistic mathematics education.

44. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Transductivity.
Independent.
puberty
direct instruction - Play

45. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Self-regulatory capacity.
Multiple intelligences.
Internalizing problems.

46. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?
Gina - an early-maturing female
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
stereotypes
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

47. having extended family involved in their lives.
The survival goal.
When parents are not getting along
Social conventional; personal
Internalizing problems.

48. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
Girls report feelings of coercion.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
direct instruction - Play
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

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

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50. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Identification.
The ovaries and the testes.