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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...






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






3. Whose theory of adolescent development believed that adolescence is the consequence of evolutionary processes?






4. Authoritative parents are...






5. How many hours of sleep in a 24-hour period should a child between the ages of 2 and 5 get?






6. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration






7. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...






8. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...






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

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10. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...






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






12. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...






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...






14. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...






15. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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16. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...






17. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.






18. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...






19. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...






20. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...






21. Which of the following statements about children's experience with interactive media is NOT true?

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






23. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits






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






25. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...






26. Studies comparing schooled and nonschooled students have demonstrated that...






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






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






29. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?






30. When talking about their sexual debut -...






31. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...






32. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?






33. 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...






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






35. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.






36. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...






37. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?






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






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






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






41. 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...






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






43. Authoritarian






44. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.






45. 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?






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






47. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?






48. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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49. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...






50. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?







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