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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.
Decreases; remains the same
slowly
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Microsystem

2. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?
Gina - an early-maturing female
more
positive emotions
Not supported by research

3. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
A scale error
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.

4. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
Improvement in social status
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Motor drive
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.

5. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Identity integration
Cultural socialization
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

6. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...
Thought processes.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Kitchen.

7. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Identity assumption
Emotional climate of family
Transductivity.
Experience sampling method.

8. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.

9. 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
. psychodynamic view
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
The model does not include a morality of care.

10. 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...
Agility.
Autobiographical memory.
Homophily.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy

11. 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...
support emotion and security needs.
Cultural socialization
Disciplinarian
A. more wooden buttons.

12. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
. children older than seven years of age
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Dyslexia.

13. Studies comparing schooled and nonschooled students have demonstrated that...
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Prosocial behavior
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Genetic and environmental factors.

14. Which approach does the idea that theory of mind develops from primitive theories of how the world works that are present at birth and modified through experience in the world follow?
Internalizing problems.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Social and emotional development.
Theory theory

15. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
Authoritative
Elaboration.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Inability to categorize objects

16. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Uterus growth.
Transductivity.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.

17. The term gonads refers to...
Independent.
Compensation.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
The ovaries and the testes.

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

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19. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Multiple intelligences.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
. Decoding
Cultural socialization

20. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Me-self
A scale error
Increases; decreases
Gay and lesbian parents

21. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...
Authoritative
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Improvement in social status
Socialization.

22. Authoritative parents are...
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Independent.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Social conventional; personal

23. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
Internalizing problems.
Motor drive
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Socialization.

24. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Slower
Risky and potentially harmful.
Compensation.
Prevention science.

25. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Increases; decreases
More rigid
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.

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.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Sensory register
more
Sociodramatic play

27. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
Decreases; remains the same
Socioeconomic status.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Metamemory.

28. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Specific learning disabilities.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Agility.
Spermarche.

29. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Social interaction
Egocentrism
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Foreclosure.

30. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Script.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
. psychodynamic view
support emotion and security needs.

31. Findings from the research of Kenneth and Mamie Clark has led psychologists to conclude that...
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.

32. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Multiple intelligences.
Gay and lesbian parents
Sociodramatic play.
Identification.

33. According to Piaget -...
Prevention science.
Exosystem.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.

34. A child sharing her apple slice with another child is an example of...
Social interaction
Prosocial behavior
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Socialization.

35. 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...
A. more wooden buttons.
Reciprocal teaching.
Decrease in efficiency
The model does not include a morality of care.

36. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
Spermarche.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Formal operations.

37. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
slowly
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Identification through differentiation

38. Not a protective factor
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Financial recession.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Piaget

39. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?
Identity assumption
Egocentrism
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks

40. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Mental operations.
transductive reasoning
Authoritarian
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.

41. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
Personal distress
Socialization.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
An entity model of intelligence.

42. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Motor drive
Social intelligence.
Improvement in social status

43. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Creative arts
Conservation.
Instrumental aggression.

44. 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?
direct instruction - Play
Conservation.
Financial recession.
Chlamydia

45. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
Violence
Emerging adulthood.
Instrumental aggression.
to be enrolled in preschool

46. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Independent.
A scale error
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

47. In terms of sleep - adolescents...
Need about 8 hours.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Formal operations.
. psychodynamic view

48. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Spermarche.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks

49. When it comes to television - children between the ages of 4 and 5...

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50. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
Effortful control.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Confusing appearance and reality.
An entity model of intelligence.