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Human Development - HDFC

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...






2. Research on the use of interactive media suggests that boys who play computer games often spend _________ time with their friends outside of school than boys who spend little to no time playing on the computer.






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...






4. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.






5. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.






6. Authoritarian






7. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...






8. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...






9. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...






10. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...






11. A male's first ejaculation is called...






12. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...






13. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

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14. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...






15. The fear - guilt - and conflict stirred up by a boy's desire to kill his father and live with his mother taking his father's place is known as...






16. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...






17. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?






18. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...






19. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...






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

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21. 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.






22. How many hours of sleep in a 24-hour period should a child between the ages of 2 and 5 get?






23. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...






24. having extended family involved in their lives.






25. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...






26. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...






27. 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...






28. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits






29. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that






30. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...






31. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...






32. 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...






33. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...






34. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...






35. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...






36. __________ 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.






37. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...






38. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.






39. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.






40. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...






41. 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.






42. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...






43. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.






44. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...






45. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration






46. Which of the following categories of racial socialization messages appears to be associated with stronger cognitive abilities and fewer behavior problems among African-American children?






47. 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?






48. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...






49. Findings from the research of Kenneth and Mamie Clark has led psychologists to conclude that...






50. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...