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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How many hours of sleep in a 24-hour period should a child between the ages of 2 and 5 get?
transductive reasoning
12 to 15 hours
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

2. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
Identity assumption
Identification through differentiation
direct instruction - Play
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.

3. 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...
Compensation.
support emotion and security needs.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Script.

4. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Metamemory.
Spermarche.
Multiple intelligences.

5. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Moratorium
Social and emotional development.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

6. The term gonads refers to...
clique
Risky and potentially harmful.
Emerging adulthood.
The ovaries and the testes.

7. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
Apprenticeship
more
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Decreases; remains the same

8. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...
The human papillomavirus.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Identification.

9. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?
Improvement in social status
Inability to categorize objects
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.

10. Parents who insist that their adolescent dress in a socially appropriate way is operating from the boundaries of ____________; while an adolescent who insists that dress is a matter of personal choice are operating from the boundaries of ____________
Mental operations.
Social conventional; personal
Violence
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.

11. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Biological maturation.
Flynn effect.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.

12. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...
At risk for obesity.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
puberty
Specific learning disabilities.

13. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Inability to categorize objects
Prevention science.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning

14. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Puberty.
Empathy
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.

15. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...
The human papillomavirus.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Identification.

16. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Increases
Decoding.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Independent.

17. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
Decision making
Dyslexia.
Instrumental aggression.
The model does not include a morality of care.

18. 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
When parents are not getting along
Need about 8 hours.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.

19. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Decision making
Mental operations.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Socioeconomic status.

20. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
Socialization.
Emotional climate of family
At risk for obesity.
Script.

21. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
Identity assumption
A scale error
Disciplinarian
Violence

22. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Privileged domains.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Personality formation

23. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...
Interdependence
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Transductivity.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

24. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Interdependence
Socioeconomic status.

25. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
Microsystem
Emotional climate of family
The human papillomavirus.
Exosystem.

26. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
School-cutoff strategy.
The Oedipus complex.
Homophily.

27. 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?
The human papillomavirus.
Postconventional level
. Decoding
Homophily.

28. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Moratorium
Rehearsal.
Prevention science.

29. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
Egocentrism
Empathy
Having extended family involved in their lives.
puberty

30. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Chlamydia
Identity formation
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Independent.

31. 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...
Egocentrism
Prosocial behavior
Decoding.
Compensation.

32. A child sharing her apple slice with another child is an example of...
Puberty.
Need about 8 hours.
Prosocial behavior
Rehearsal.

33. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.

34. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Compensation.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
transductive reasoning

35. Not the result of the maturation of the frontal lobe?
to be enrolled in preschool
Higher levels of intelligence
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.

36. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
Gina - an early-maturing female
Internalizing problems.
puberty
Exosystem.

37. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation
Sensory register
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

38. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.
Decreases; remains the same
Metamemory.
Financial recession.
Stage 4

39. Children adopting an entity theory of intelligence are more likely than others to...

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40. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
Masturbation
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Social intelligence.
Enabling interactions

41. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
controlling conflict within a social group.
Computer.
Cultural socialization

42. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
More rigid
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Internalizing problems.
An entity model of intelligence.

43. Authoritarian
Social and emotional development.
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
Culture-sensitive instruction.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.

44. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...
When parents are not getting along
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Conservation.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.

45. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
Social and emotional development.
Emphasize obedience.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.

46. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...
Puberty.
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
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.

47. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
Masturbation
Genetic and environmental factors.
Apprenticeship
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.

48. Piaget believed that the greatest limitation to young children's thinking was...
Transductivity.
Decrease in efficiency
Neighborhood physical disorder.
A scale error

49. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Inability to categorize objects
. Decoding

50. Authoritative parents are...
Identification through differentiation
The Oedipus complex.
Personal distress
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children