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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
Authoritarian
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Genetic and environmental factors.
. Decoding

2. The term gonads refers to...
The ovaries and the testes.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Identification through differentiation
Postconventional level

3. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
Conservation.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Conservation.
Emerging adulthood.

4. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...
Socialization.
Theory of mind.
Spermarche.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.

5. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
controlling conflict within a social group.
Multiple intelligences.
Rehearsal.
The ovaries and the testes.

6. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.
stereotypes
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
The survival goal.
Decreases; remains the same

7. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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8. When talking about their sexual debut -...
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Differential reinforcement

9. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
An entity model of intelligence.
The human papillomavirus.
. Decoding
Confusing appearance and reality.

10. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
Stage 4
Relational aggression
support emotion and security needs.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.

11. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
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
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
throw a ball overhand.

12. In terms of sleep - adolescents...
Realistic mathematics education.
Need about 8 hours.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.

13. 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...
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Realistic mathematics education.
A. more wooden buttons.
. the social goal

14. Various studies of the influence of television violence on children's behavior have found...
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Exosystem.
Transductivity.
Agility.

15. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
Emphasize obedience.
Masturbation
. psychodynamic view
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.

16. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
Conservation.
. saturated self.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Enabling interactions

17. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Formal operations.
Decreases; remains the same
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Biological maturation.

18. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
When parents are not getting along
support emotion and security needs.
Reciprocal teaching.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

19. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
Social and emotional development.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
A scale error
Personal distress

20. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.
12 to 15 hours
Authoritative
Stage 4
A scale error

21. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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22. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
Effortful control.
Identity assumption
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Interdependence

23. Research on fathers suggests that...
support emotion and security needs.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
The model does not include a morality of care.
Theory theory

24. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Confusing appearance and reality.
Slower
Decoding.
Reciprocal teaching.

25. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...
Genetic and environmental factors.
controlling conflict within a social group.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

26. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
Theory of mind.
Rehearsal.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Socioeconomic status.

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...
12 to 15 hours
Privileged domains.
Me-self
The Oedipus complex.

28. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
. children older than seven years of age
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Specific learning disabilities.
The model does not include a morality of care.

29. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Piaget
Foreclosure.
Reciprocal teaching.
Thought processes.

30. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
Socialization.
puberty
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.

31. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.
The ovaries and the testes.
Financial recession.
slowly
Chlamydia

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

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33. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Postconventional level
Increases; decreases
Privileged domains.
transductive reasoning

34. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
Thought processes.
Slower
Self-regulatory capacity.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.

35. In the reciprocal-teaching approach...
. saturated self.
Formal operations
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Neighborhood physical disorder.

36. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks

37. 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.
Conservation.
. Decoding
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.

38. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Instrumental aggression.

39. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
Thought processes.
Confusing appearance and reality.
An entity model of intelligence.
The model does not include a morality of care.

40. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
Authoritative
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Interdependence
Internalizing problems.

41. 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.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
direct instruction - Play
more
Stage 4

42. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Identification through differentiation
Social and emotional development.
positive emotions

43. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
slowly
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Identity assumption
Dyslexia.

44. 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?
. psychodynamic view
Agility.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Differential reinforcement

45. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?
Risky and potentially harmful.
Piaget
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

46. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
Kitchen.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Social interaction
Foreclosure.

47. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
Emerging adulthood.
Authoritarian
The model does not include a morality of care.
Sensory register

48. The 'known-answer question' is a type of question that is rare in everyday adult conversation but is commonly used in...
Me-self
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Confusing appearance and reality.

49. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Decision making
Socioeconomic status.
Interdependence
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.

50. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?
Identification.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Apprenticeship