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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
slowly
Script.
Improvement in social status
Decision making

2. 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...
Microsystem
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Compensation.
Emphasize obedience.

3. A primary sex characteristic...
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Personal and social conventional
Improvement in social status
Uterus growth.

4. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
slowly
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Socioeconomic status.
Empathy

5. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Prosocial behavior
. the social goal
Deviancy in adolescence.

6. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...
Metamemory.
Puberty.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Foreclosure.

7. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Personal distress
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

8. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?
Specific learning disabilities.
Identity formation
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Multiple intelligences.

9. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Uneven and variable
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Moratorium
Internalizing problems.

10. 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?
Gay and lesbian parents
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
At risk for obesity.
Identity integration

11. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?
Egocentrism
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Exosystem.
The survival goal.

12. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Inability to categorize objects
Genetic and environmental factors.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.

13. __________ can be characterized as a form of activity that is intermediate between the implicit socialization of everyday family life and the explicit teaching of formal education.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Apprenticeship
Decrease in efficiency
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.

14. Five-year-old Jacob is playing with his grandmother's buttons. He counts eight wooden buttons and three plastic buttons. When his grandmother asks Jacob if he has more wooden buttons or more buttons - he will most likely indicate that there are...
A. more wooden buttons.
Exosystem.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
direct instruction - Play

15. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Gina - an early-maturing female
Sensory register
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

16. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Transductivity.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Identity integration

17. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Thought processes.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.

18. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...
Flynn effect.
The model does not include a morality of care.
Thought processes.
Social and emotional development.

19. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
Internalizing problems.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Effortful control.
More

20. Various studies of the influence of television violence on children's behavior have found...
Conservation.
Motor drive
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.

21. 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.
Identity formation
Violence
Inability to categorize objects

22. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Gay and lesbian parents
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Empathy

23. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Specific learning disabilities.

24. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
At risk for obesity.
Gina - an early-maturing female
A performance orientation.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

25. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Increases
Increases; decreases
Kitchen.
When parents are not getting along

26. 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.
Socioeconomic status.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Elaboration.
Sociodramatic play

27. 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...
Conservation.
Autobiographical memory.
Disciplinarian
Conservation.

28. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

29. Whose theory of adolescent development believed that adolescence is the consequence of evolutionary processes?
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Piaget
Socioeconomic status.

30. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Independent.
Motor drive
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.

31. Adolescent boys and girls - whose friends engage in high levels of disruptive behavior at the beginning of a school year - are more likely to experience ___________ in the level of their own disruptive behavior later in the school year.
. saturated self.
Conservation.
Increases
Theory theory

32. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Decoding.
Internalizing problems.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
. psychodynamic view

33. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
At risk for obesity.
The Oedipus complex.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Internalizing problems.

34. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...
transductive reasoning
Stage 4
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.

35. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
to be enrolled in preschool

36. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
Formal operations
Experience sampling method.
Prevention science.
Identity integration

37. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Improvement in social status
Identity formation
Uneven and variable

38. Not a protective factor
Financial recession.
Theory of mind.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.

39. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Chlamydia
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.

40. 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...
Sensory register
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Egocentrism

41. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
Social conventional; personal
Masturbation
Creative arts
Social intelligence.

42. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
Sociodramatic play.
Sensory register
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

43. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Prosocial behavior
Theory of mind.
Auxiliary hair appears

44. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Postconventional level
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Instrumental aggression.

45. Research in which participants carry electronic pagers that beep at random intervals - signaling that they need to fill out a brief report on their current feelings is called...
Mental operations.
stereotypes
Experience sampling method.
The drawer in the in kitchen

46. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
More rigid
Sociodramatic play
Autobiographical memory.
Not supported by research

47. One of the key aspects of Piaget's formal operations involves...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Mental operations.
Identity formation

48. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
Effortful control.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Biological maturation.
A scale error

49. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
controlling conflict within a social group.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Enabling interactions
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.

50. The extent to which friends are similar to one another is referred to as...
Stage 4
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Homophily.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.