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Human Development - HDFC

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

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2. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?






3. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.






4. A child reasons that the change in the level of a quantity of liquid brought about by pouring it from a short - wide beaker to a tall - narrow beaker is not caused by a change in the amount of the liquid - but by the fact that the taller beaker is al






5. Borke's replication of Piaget and Inhelder's three-mountain experiment in which children were presented with a Sesame Street character that drove around familiar landmarks demonstrated that three- and four-year-old children are capable of...






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






7. 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?






8. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...






9. Not considered to be a privileged domain?






10. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...






11. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...






12. Piaget believed that the greatest limitation to young children's thinking was...






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?






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






15. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...






16. Which view of moral development suggests that children acquire a sense of What is right and wrong from internalizing the moral standards of their parents?






17. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.






18. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...






19. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...






20. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?






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






22. Not a risk factor for child abuse?






23. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?






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






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






26. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...






27. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...






28. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...






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






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






31. Which of the following statements about the development of the brain during early childhood is TRUE?

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32. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...






33. On average - boys are not better than girls at...






34. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation






35. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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

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37. When three-year-old children are told a story about a little boy who puts candy in a drawer - leaves the room - and doesn't see when his mother then moves the candy into the kitchen - they predict the boy will look for the candy in the...






38. __________ 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.






39. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...






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

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41. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?






42. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?






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






44. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...






45. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?






46. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?






47. The term gonads refers to...






48. The memory strategy that involves making connections between two or more things to be remembered is called...






49. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...






50. Research on fathers suggests that...