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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
Emerging adulthood.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
stereotypes
Not supported by research

2. Adolescent boys and girls - whose friends engage in high levels of disruptive behavior at the beginning of a school year - are more likely to experience ___________ in the level of their own disruptive behavior later in the school year.
Empathy
Increases
Transductivity.
When parents are not getting along

3. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
Socioeconomic status.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
12 to 15 hours
At risk for obesity.

4. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
The drawer in the in kitchen
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Script.
Social and emotional development.

5. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Social and emotional development.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Slower
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate

6. A primary sex characteristic...
Auxiliary hair appears
The Oedipus complex.
Uterus growth.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.

7. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'
Identification.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Gay and lesbian parents

8. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...
Plan ahead.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Socialization.

9. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
Privileged domains.
. Decoding
Social intelligence.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

10. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Theory theory
Enabling interactions
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Inability to categorize objects

11. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
Financial recession.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Cultural socialization

12. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
Identity formation
Compensation.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.

13. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
Creative arts
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children

14. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
Identification through differentiation
School-cutoff strategy.
An entity model of intelligence.
Socialization.

15. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes
More rigid
12 to 15 hours
Conservation.
Auxiliary hair appears

16. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
When parents are not getting along
throw a ball overhand.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

17. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Mental operations.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Sensory register
support emotion and security needs.

18. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...
Thought processes.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Cultural socialization
Masturbation

19. According to the social learning view - children identify with the same-sex parent because of...
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Gina - an early-maturing female
Differential reinforcement
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.

20. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
Social intelligence.
Microsystem
Masturbation
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.

21. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
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.
Dyslexia.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

22. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Socioeconomic status.
Uneven and variable
Moratorium
Plan ahead.

23. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
Differential reinforcement
Confusing appearance and reality.
When parents are not getting along
Puberty.

24. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Skipping.
Chlamydia
Financial recession.

25. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?
direct instruction - Play
Metamemory.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Improvement in social status

26. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?
stereotypes
Confusing appearance and reality.
Inability to categorize objects
Postconventional level

27. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Social interaction
Spermarche.
Personality formation

28. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
Autobiographical memory.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Cultural socialization

29. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Decrease in efficiency
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.

30. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
controlling conflict within a social group.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Autobiographical memory.
Having extended family involved in their lives.

31. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Exosystem.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Postconventional level

32. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Elaboration.
Agility.

33. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
At risk for obesity.
Motor drive
Agility.
Masturbation

34. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
positive emotions
Having extended family involved in their lives.
controlling conflict within a social group.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks

35. Authoritative parents are...
Dyslexia.
Social interaction
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children

36. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
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
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
A. more wooden buttons.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

37. 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?
At risk for obesity.
direct instruction - Play
Creative arts
Conservation.

38. 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?
Postconventional level
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Homophily.
A. more wooden buttons.

39. 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?
Need about 8 hours.
stereotypes
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Identity integration

40. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Financial recession.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.

41. When it comes to television - children between the ages of 4 and 5...

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42. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Spermarche.
Decreases; remains the same
Biological maturation.
A. more wooden buttons.

43. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
Uterus growth.
Gay and lesbian parents
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence

44. __________ can be characterized as a form of activity that is intermediate between the implicit socialization of everyday family life and the explicit teaching of formal education.
Apprenticeship
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Formal operations.
Auxiliary hair appears

45. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Rehearsal.
Metamemory.

46. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
Experience sampling method.
Rehearsal.
Effortful control.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.

47. 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...
Decoding.
A. more wooden buttons.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Financial recession.

48. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
clique
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Sociodramatic play
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.

49. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.
Authoritative
Relational aggression
Violence
Formal operations.

50. Kohlberg's process of sex-role development mostly closely follows...

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