Test your basic knowledge |

Human Development - HDFC

Subject : teaching

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...
An entity model of intelligence.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Thought processes.

2. 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?
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Postconventional level
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.

3. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
puberty
Empathy
Microsystem
Mental operations.

4. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Effortful control.
throw a ball overhand.
slowly
Identification.

5. 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
Higher levels of intelligence
The drawer in the in kitchen
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.

6. Findings from the research of Kenneth and Mamie Clark has led psychologists to conclude that...
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Decision making
Dyslexia.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.

7. 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.
more
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Enabling interactions
The model does not include a morality of care.

8. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Moratorium
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Transductivity.

9. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
More
Chlamydia
Cultural socialization
Violence

10. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Stage 4
Moratorium
Script.
Mental operations.

11. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...
The survival goal.
Socialization.
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.
Decoding.

12. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
Confusing appearance and reality.
Interdependence
Sociodramatic play
Decrease in efficiency

13. In this stage of sexual identity development are sexual-minority individuals who have come to terms with their homosexuality and are 'out' in their communities?
Identity integration
The model does not include a morality of care.
Thought processes.
Flynn effect.

14. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
Financial recession.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
The Oedipus complex.
The human papillomavirus.

15. 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.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Exosystem.
Specific learning disabilities.
Increases

16. Authoritative parents are...
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Uterus growth.

17. having extended family involved in their lives.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Cultural socialization
The survival goal.

18. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Confusing appearance and reality.
A performance orientation.
Socialization.

19. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Personal distress
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
The ovaries and the testes.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'

20. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
At risk for obesity.
Decoding.
Enabling interactions
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.

21. 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...
Gay and lesbian parents
controlling conflict within a social group.
Reciprocal teaching.
When parents are not getting along

22. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
The ovaries and the testes.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.

23. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...
Social conventional; personal
Emphasize obedience.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Moratorium

24. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
puberty
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
. the social goal
Sensory register

25. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Increases; decreases
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.

26. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Internalizing problems.
Egocentrism
Differential reinforcement
Flynn effect.

27. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

28. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Formal operations.
Mental operations.
Specific learning disabilities.
Cultural socialization

29. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Experience sampling method.
More
Internalizing problems.

30. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
The survival goal.
The human papillomavirus.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

31. 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.
Transductivity.
The ovaries and the testes.
An infusion of pubertal hormones

32. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...
Differential reinforcement
Emotional climate of family
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
When parents are not getting along

33. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.
Transductivity.
transductive reasoning
Independent.
Need about 8 hours.

34. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Emotional climate of family

35. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
positive emotions
A performance orientation.
The survival goal.
Dyslexia.

36. 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...
School-cutoff strategy.
Slower
Compensation.
Rehearsal.

37. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
Internalizing problems.
Script.
Deviancy in adolescence.
Exosystem.

38. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Puberty.
Socioeconomic status.

39. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Specific learning disabilities.
Independent.
The model does not include a morality of care.

40. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
Identity integration
Uterus growth.
Decision making
stereotypes

41. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.
direct instruction - Play
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Decreases; remains the same
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

42. 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?
Personal and social conventional
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Cultural socialization
At risk for obesity.

43. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
Creative arts
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Improvement in social status
stereotypes

44. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
Instrumental aggression.
Personality formation
Computer.
Cultural socialization

45. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Decreases; remains the same
Gay and lesbian parents
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

46. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
Cultural socialization
more
Confusing appearance and reality.
Internalizing problems.

47. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
Socialization.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
clique

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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

49. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Internalizing problems.

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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

Sorry!:) No result found.

Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?

Major Subjects
Tests & Exams AP CLEP DSST GRE SAT GMAT	Certifications CISSP go to https://www.isc2.org/ PMP ITIL RHCE MCTS More...	IT Skills Android Programming Data Modeling Objective C Programming Basic Python Programming Adobe Illustrator More...	Business Skills Advertising Techniques Business Accounting Basics Business Strategy Human Resource Management Marketing Basics More...
Soft Skills Body Language People Skills Public Speaking Persuasion Job Hunting And Resumes More...	Vocabulary GRE Vocab SAT Vocab TOEFL Essential Vocab Basic English Words For All Global Words You Should Know Business English More...	Languages AP German Vocab AP Latin Vocab SAT Subject Test: French Italian Survival Norwegian Survival More...	Engineering Audio Engineering Computer Science Engineering Aerospace Engineering Chemical Engineering Structural Engineering More...
Health Sciences Basic Nursing Skills Health Science Language Fundamentals Veterinary Technology Medical Language Cardiology Clinical Surgery More...	English Grammar Fundamentals Literary And Rhetorical Vocab Elements Of Style Vocab Introduction To English Major Complete Advanced Sentences Literature Homonyms More...	Math Algebra Formulas Basic Arithmetic: Measurements Metric Conversions Geometric Properties Important Math Facts Number Sense Vocab Business Math More...	Other Major Subjects Science Economics History Law Performing-arts Cooking Logic & Reasoning Trivia

Test your basic knowledge |

Human Development - HDFC

Sorry!:) No result found.

Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?

Let me suggest you:

Browse all subjects

Browse all tests

Most popular tests

Major Subjects

Tests & Exams

Certifications

IT Skills

Business Skills

Soft Skills

Vocabulary

Languages

Engineering

Health Sciences

English

Math

Other Major Subjects

Browse all subjects

Browse all tests

Most popular tests