Human Development - HDFC

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1. Alfred Binet is known for creating...
Egocentrism
When parents are not getting along
Exosystem.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.


2. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Biological maturation.
Flynn effect.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Self-regulatory capacity.


3. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...
Stage 4
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Spermarche.
stereotypes


4. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that
Deviancy in adolescence.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Gina - an early-maturing female
Exosystem.


5. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
Cultural socialization
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Masturbation
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.


6. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Independent.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
A. more wooden buttons.


7. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Effortful control.
Enabling interactions
A scale error


8. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
Socioeconomic status.
Emerging adulthood.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Higher levels of intelligence


9. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
to be enrolled in preschool
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Internalizing problems.
Realistic mathematics education.


10. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
Identity formation
positive emotions
Decrease in efficiency
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.


11. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...
Effortful control.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Increases; decreases
Skipping.


12. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
direct instruction - Play
Puberty.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Decoding.


13. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Reciprocal teaching.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Flynn effect.


14. 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?
Theory theory
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Personal and social conventional
Social intelligence.


15. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Homophily.
Decoding.
Social intelligence.


16. 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
Stage 4
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Sensory register


17. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
Social interaction
Decision making
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently


18. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
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.
throw a ball overhand.
Moratorium
clique


19. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...
Uneven and variable
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Enabling interactions


20. 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
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Moratorium
The survival goal.
The drawer in the in kitchen


21. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
Homophily.
Creative arts
Theory theory
Formal operations


22. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
Social interaction
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Puberty.
Sensory register


23. __________ 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.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Decreases; remains the same
Apprenticeship


24. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Disciplinarian
Decoding.
Theory of mind.


25. The school-cutoff strategy helps researchers to...

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26. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.


27. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Emphasize obedience.
Reciprocal teaching.
Biological maturation.
Multiple intelligences.


28. Adolescent ethnic identity formation is not strong when...
Moratorium
. children older than seven years of age
Violence
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate


29. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.
transductive reasoning
Higher levels of intelligence
Enabling interactions
Internalizing problems.


30. Kohlberg's process of sex-role development mostly closely follows...

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31. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Transductivity.


32. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Decision making
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
stereotypes
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.


33. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

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34. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?
Rehearsal.
Disciplinarian
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Improvement in social status


35. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Moratorium
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Cultural socialization
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


36. 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?
Postconventional level
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Decoding.


37. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
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 report feelings of coercion.
Agility.


38. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
School-cutoff strategy.
More
Me-self


39. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?
Internalizing problems.
Conservation.
Mental operations.
Inability to categorize objects


40. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...
transductive reasoning
The drawer in the in kitchen
Culture-sensitive instruction.
When parents are not getting along


41. 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...
Privileged domains.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Experience sampling method.
Moratorium


42. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
. saturated self.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Microsystem


43. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Microsystem
puberty
Genetic and environmental factors.
Creative arts


44. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
Higher levels of intelligence
Effortful control.
to be enrolled in preschool
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children


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

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46. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Authoritarian
Financial recession.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning


47. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?
Identity integration
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Egocentrism
Compensation.


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

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49. Not a way schooling differs from traditional apprenticeship training?

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50. 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.
Biological maturation.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Increases