Human Development - HDFC

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1. The term gonads refers to...
Personal distress
The ovaries and the testes.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Social intelligence.


2. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
Theory theory
Not supported by research
Flynn effect.
Stage 4


3. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...
Social conventional; personal
Cultural socialization
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Identification.


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

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5. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?
Auxiliary hair appears
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Identity integration


6. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
When parents are not getting along
Homophily.
Socialization.
Effortful control.


7. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
positive emotions
Skipping.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.


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?
Decrease in efficiency
Conservation.
Social interaction
direct instruction - Play


9. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
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
Need about 8 hours.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Privileged domains.


10. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

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11. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
. psychodynamic view
. saturated self.
Social and emotional development.
Masturbation


12. 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...
At risk for obesity.
Sociodramatic play.
Reciprocal teaching.
Motor drive


13. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.


14. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Multiple intelligences.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
When parents are not getting along
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.


15. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
The Oedipus complex.
Social conventional; personal
Identification through differentiation
Script.


16. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Inability to categorize objects
Formal operations.
Homophily.
Identification.


17. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Personal and social conventional
. the social goal
The model does not include a morality of care.


18. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
Rehearsal.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
. Decoding
Identity formation


19. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
The human papillomavirus.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Decrease in efficiency
slowly


20. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Higher levels of intelligence
Compensation.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Creative arts


21. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
. children older than seven years of age
Having extended family involved in their lives.
12 to 15 hours
Gay and lesbian parents


22. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Moratorium
Emerging adulthood.


23. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that
Inability to categorize objects
Computer.
At risk for obesity.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.


24. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
Realistic mathematics education.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Identification through differentiation
Prevention science.


25. Cross-cultural studies of concrete operations demonstrate that...

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26. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
More rigid
Internalizing problems.
Emerging adulthood.
Violence


27. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
Decrease in efficiency
Mental operations.
Disciplinarian
Social intelligence.


28. According to Piaget -...
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Decoding.


29. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Slower
Creative arts


30. 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...
Compensation.
Spermarche.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Increases


31. A male's first ejaculation is called...
support emotion and security needs.
Financial recession.
Spermarche.
Prosocial behavior


32. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Privileged domains.
slowly
Slower


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

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34. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
Cultural socialization
. children older than seven years of age
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Confusing appearance and reality.


35. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Independent.
Agility.
Reciprocal teaching.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.


36. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Stage 4
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Internalizing problems.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.


37. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Computer.
Foreclosure.
Personal distress


38. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
Creative arts
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks


39. __________ 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.
Apprenticeship
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
A scale error
Multiple intelligences.


40. 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...
Experience sampling method.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Socioeconomic status.
Increases; decreases


41. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Violence
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.


42. Not a risk factor for child abuse?
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
direct instruction - Play
Prevention science.
. children older than seven years of age


43. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
Socioeconomic status.
Agility.
Cultural socialization
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking


44. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Motor drive
More rigid
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Neighborhood physical disorder.


45. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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46. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits
Identification.
Me-self
Disciplinarian
The human papillomavirus.


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

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48. 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?
Transductivity.
Not supported by research
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Theory theory


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

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50. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
Moratorium
Social and emotional development.
More
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.