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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Moratorium
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

2. having extended family involved in their lives.
Conservation.
The survival goal.
Spermarche.
Social interaction

3. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Identification.
Increases; decreases
Sociodramatic play
Sensory register

4. In terms of sleep - adolescents...
Need about 8 hours.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Risky and potentially harmful.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.

5. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
Disciplinarian
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Social intelligence.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning

6. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
Internalizing problems.
An entity model of intelligence.
Disciplinarian
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

7. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
more
Elaboration.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.

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?
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
direct instruction - Play

9. Studies comparing schooled and nonschooled students have demonstrated that...
Script.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Sociodramatic play

10. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Emotional climate of family
Social conventional; personal

11. The use of meaningful activities - supporting basic skills - and employing mathematical models in the learning of math are components of...
Risky and potentially harmful.
Realistic mathematics education.
Inability to categorize objects
Authoritative

12. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...
Socialization.
Realistic mathematics education.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Deviancy in adolescence.

13. The extent to which friends are similar to one another is referred to as...
Homophily.
more
The survival goal.
Prevention science.

14. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Cultural socialization
A performance orientation.
Uneven and variable

15. The memory strategy that involves making connections between two or more things to be remembered is called...
Internalizing problems.
Multiple intelligences.
Elaboration.
Having extended family involved in their lives.

16. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Authoritarian
Uterus growth.
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

17. 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...
Internalizing problems.
Disciplinarian
Personal distress
A. more wooden buttons.

18. 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...
Differential reinforcement
12 to 15 hours
Cultural socialization
Autobiographical memory.

19. According to Piaget -...
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Rehearsal.
Biological maturation.
Microsystem

20. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Decision making
Enabling interactions
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Computer.

21. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Experience sampling method.
Decoding.
Improvement in social status
Transductivity.

22. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?
Exosystem.
stereotypes
Identity integration
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

23. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Masturbation
Agility.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate

24. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
Personal and social conventional
Decreases; remains the same
A scale error
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.

25. Adolescent ethnic identity formation is not strong when...
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
At risk for obesity.
Gay and lesbian parents
More rigid

26. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
Sociodramatic play.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

27. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...
Uterus growth.
Social intelligence.
Kitchen.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

28. When three-year-old children are told a story about a little boy who puts candy in a drawer - leaves the room - and doesn't see when his mother then moves the candy into the kitchen - they predict the boy will look for the candy in the...
Kitchen.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
A performance orientation.
Transductivity.

29. In their study of planning - Gardner and Rogoff found that

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30. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
Girls report feelings of coercion.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Cultural socialization
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.

31. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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32. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
Interdependence
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Confusing appearance and reality.
Neighborhood physical disorder.

33. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
Socialization.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
The human papillomavirus.
Realistic mathematics education.

34. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that
At risk for obesity.
Socialization.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.

35. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
The ovaries and the testes.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.

36. One of the key aspects of Piaget's formal operations involves...
. Decoding
Formal operations.
Transductivity.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.

37. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...
. the social goal
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Apprenticeship

38. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
Internalizing problems.
Not supported by research
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Emerging adulthood.

39. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Decrease in efficiency
School-cutoff strategy.
Identity integration

40. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Me-self
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Risky and potentially harmful.

41. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
Empathy
positive emotions
to be enrolled in preschool
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

42. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
Uneven and variable
. saturated self.
Formal operations
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.

43. 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?
more
Identification through differentiation
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Personal and social conventional

44. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Prosocial behavior
Risky and potentially harmful.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Agility.

45. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Biological maturation.
Transductivity.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Relational aggression

46. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
The Oedipus complex.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Cultural socialization

47. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
School-cutoff strategy.
Biological maturation.
At risk for obesity.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.

48. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
The model does not include a morality of care.
Socialization.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
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.

49. 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.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Increases
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.

50. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Deviancy in adolescence.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.