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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Cross-cultural research on the effects of schooling suggests that schooling...
Emotional climate of family
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
At risk for obesity.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.

2. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
Financial recession.
Emerging adulthood.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.

3. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
Theory of mind.
Gay and lesbian parents
Emotional climate of family
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

4. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Authoritative
Plan ahead.
Identity formation

5. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Conservation.
Decision making
Agility.
Chlamydia

6. Not a risk factor for child abuse?
. children older than seven years of age
Biological maturation.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Theory theory

7. Not the result of the maturation of the frontal lobe?
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Apprenticeship
Flynn effect.
Higher levels of intelligence

8. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
direct instruction - Play
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
positive emotions

9. 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?
Cultural socialization
Script.
Identity integration
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.

10. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Decision making
Risky and potentially harmful.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Enabling interactions

11. The term gonads refers to...
The ovaries and the testes.
Independent.
. children older than seven years of age
Compensation.

12. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
Decrease in efficiency
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Decoding.
At risk for obesity.

13. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Cultural socialization
Postconventional level

14. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
Me-self
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.

15. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Identification.
Moratorium

16. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
Violence
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.

17. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Theory of mind.
Postconventional level
. the social goal

18. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.
Authoritarian
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Multiple intelligences.

19. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
. saturated self.
Social interaction
Flynn effect.
Girls report feelings of coercion.

20. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
An entity model of intelligence.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Agility.

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...
Social conventional; personal
Script.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Reciprocal teaching.

22. 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
Cultural socialization
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.

23. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Personal distress
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Multiple intelligences.
more

24. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
Sociodramatic play
Identity assumption
Self-regulatory capacity.
Not supported by research

25. The memory strategy that involves making connections between two or more things to be remembered is called...
Confusing appearance and reality.
Elaboration.
Metamemory.
. children older than seven years of age

26. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
stereotypes
Emerging adulthood.
When parents are not getting along
The Oedipus complex.

27. Not a protective factor
Financial recession.
Not supported by research
Moratorium
Homophily.

28. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Flynn effect.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
. saturated self.

29. In their study of planning - Gardner and Rogoff found that

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30. A child's ability to recognize that two rows of pennies each with the same number of pennies have the same number of pennies when one row of pennies is longer than the other is called...
Foreclosure.
Conservation.
More rigid
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.

31. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
Cultural socialization
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Inability to categorize objects
Emotional climate of family

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

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33. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
Violence
Formal operations
Culture-sensitive instruction.
positive emotions

34. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Social intelligence.
Piaget

35. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Social interaction
throw a ball overhand.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.

36. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Differential reinforcement
Financial recession.
Motor drive
Experience sampling method.

37. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Compensation.
More
Chlamydia

38. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
Dyslexia.
Socialization.
Compensation.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

39. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation
Realistic mathematics education.
Motor drive
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Social intelligence.

40. Various studies of the influence of television violence on children's behavior have found...
Uterus growth.
Dyslexia.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.

41. 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?
Identity assumption
direct instruction - Play
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Masturbation

42. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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43. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Dyslexia.
Not supported by research
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

44. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Spermarche.
Theory of mind.
Uneven and variable

45. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
12 to 15 hours
Computer.
. the social goal
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.

46. Vygotsky believed that which of the following plays a key role in self-regulation and can allow children to create their own zones of proximal development?
Kitchen.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
direct instruction - Play
Mental operations.

47. Whose theory of adolescent development believed that adolescence is the consequence of evolutionary processes?
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Piaget
Personal distress

48. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Identification.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
positive emotions

49. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Biological maturation.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy

50. The use of meaningful activities - supporting basic skills - and employing mathematical models in the learning of math are components of...
When parents are not getting along
The model does not include a morality of care.
Compensation.
Realistic mathematics education.