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Human Development - HDFC

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...






2. The most common STI in the U.S. is...






3. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...






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






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






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






7. NOT characteristic of school problems?






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






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






10. According to information-processing approach to cognitive development - before stimulation from the environment (or 'input') can be stored in either short-term memory or long-term memory - it must pass through the...






11. 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?






12. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?






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






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

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






16. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation






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

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18. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...






19. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...






20. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...






21. Authoritarian






22. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...






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






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






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






26. Various studies of the influence of television violence on children's behavior have found...






27. 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...






28. 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






29. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...






30. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?






31. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...






32. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...






33. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...






34. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...






35. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...






36. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...






37. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.






38. Cross-cultural research on the effects of schooling suggests that schooling...






39. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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40. In the reciprocal-teaching approach...






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






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






43. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.






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

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45. 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.






46. In which stage of forming a sexual minority development would an individual who has had homosexual experiences and recognizes that they prefer sexual relations with members of their own sex but do not openly acknowledge their preference be?






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






48. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...






49. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...






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