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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Moratorium
Risky and potentially harmful.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Privileged domains.

2. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Emotional climate of family
Metamemory.

3. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...
Instrumental aggression.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Increases; decreases
. psychodynamic view

4. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
Social interaction
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Decoding.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

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

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6. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Emotional climate of family
. Decoding

7. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?
Uterus growth.
Auxiliary hair appears
Masturbation
Motor drive

8. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Rehearsal.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Disciplinarian

9. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...
Metamemory.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Differential reinforcement
The drawer in the in kitchen

10. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Decrease in efficiency
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
. Decoding
Violence

11. 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?
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Slower
Postconventional level
Conservation.

12. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
transductive reasoning
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Flynn effect.
Identification through differentiation

13. 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...
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Sensory register
Personality formation
positive emotions

14. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?
direct instruction - Play
Me-self
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Inability to categorize objects

15. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
Internalizing problems.
Specific learning disabilities.
More rigid
When parents are not getting along

16. 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.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Exosystem.
The Oedipus complex.
more

17. 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...
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Elaboration.
Reciprocal teaching.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.

18. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Financial recession.
Cultural socialization
. psychodynamic view

19. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Foreclosure.

20. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Multiple intelligences.
Sociodramatic play
Emotional climate of family
Increases

21. 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
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
The human papillomavirus.
Compensation.
Spermarche.

22. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Personal distress
Not supported by research
Chlamydia

23. According to Piaget -...
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Compensation.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Gina - an early-maturing female

24. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Conservation.

25. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Confusing appearance and reality.
Enabling interactions
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children

26. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Inability to categorize objects

27. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
Disciplinarian
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
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Rehearsal.

28. 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
The drawer in the in kitchen
Identity assumption
Decision making
Kitchen.

29. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
Uterus growth.
More rigid
throw a ball overhand.
Conservation.

30. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
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
Emphasize obedience.
Mental operations.

31. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
12 to 15 hours
Autobiographical memory.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children

32. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
more
Decision making
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Identification.

33. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
The ovaries and the testes.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Agility.

34. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation
throw a ball overhand.
Internalizing problems.
Cultural socialization
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

35. Research on parent-adolescent relationships suggests that a great deal of conflict arises because of differences in opinion about the boundaries between which two social domains?
Personal and social conventional
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Exosystem.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.

36. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Internalizing problems.

37. Studies of poor families suggest that such factors as stress - the dangerous circumstances of daily life in poor areas - and the nature of parents' jobs tend to cause poor parents to...
Emphasize obedience.
Increases
Higher levels of intelligence
Egocentrism

38. 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.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
At risk for obesity.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.

39. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
stereotypes
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Social conventional; personal
Script.

40. 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...
A performance orientation.
Higher levels of intelligence
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
A. more wooden buttons.

41. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
A performance orientation.
Emotional climate of family
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.

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

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43. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
Instrumental aggression.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Socioeconomic status.
Masturbation

44. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...
Piaget
Slower
Thought processes.
Creative arts

45. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
Compensation.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Rehearsal.
Formal operations.

46. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Theory of mind.
Violence
Masturbation

47. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...
Theory of mind.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Differential reinforcement
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.

48. Studies comparing schooled and nonschooled students have demonstrated that...
Social conventional; personal
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Egocentrism
Autobiographical memory.

49. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
The model does not include a morality of care.
The ovaries and the testes.
. children older than seven years of age
Identification through differentiation

50. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
At risk for obesity.
Gina - an early-maturing female
Emphasize obedience.
Internalizing problems.