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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Foreclosure.
Inability to categorize objects
Independent.
Deviancy in adolescence.

2. A male's first ejaculation is called...
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Spermarche.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Script.

3. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.
Puberty.
slowly
Creative arts
Disciplinarian

4. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
Stage 4
Specific learning disabilities.
Egocentrism
The model does not include a morality of care.

5. Not a protective factor
Motor drive
Formal operations.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Financial recession.

6. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Identity formation
At risk for obesity.
Socialization.

7. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Specific learning disabilities.
Creative arts
Sociodramatic play.
Elaboration.

8. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
Decision making
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Girls report feelings of coercion.

9. Research on young children demonstrates that high levels of ______________ measured at the beginning of a year is associated with high levels of self-regulation when measured later in the same year.
Increases; decreases
Piaget
Sociodramatic play
Instrumental aggression.

10. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
Script.
Personal distress
Financial recession.
controlling conflict within a social group.

11. The memory strategy that involves making connections between two or more things to be remembered is called...
Disciplinarian
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Identity integration
Elaboration.

12. 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...
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Slower
Sensory register

13. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Piaget
Decision making
Elaboration.

14. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
transductive reasoning
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.

15. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Mental operations.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Personal distress
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.

16. 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.
A. more wooden buttons.
Moratorium
The model does not include a morality of care.

17. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Biological maturation.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.

18. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
A. more wooden buttons.
Computer.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.

19. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
Masturbation
Prevention science.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Self-regulatory capacity.

20. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
Identity assumption
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Risky and potentially harmful.
. saturated self.

21. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Agility.
Foreclosure.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Privileged domains.

22. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
Biological maturation.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
More

23. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes
Thought processes.
In formal schooling oral instruction is the most common type of instruction while apprenticeship instruction is done through watching and imitating the master's work.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
More rigid

24. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?
Prosocial behavior
Auxiliary hair appears
The ovaries and the testes.
Piaget

25. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Multiple intelligences.
Postconventional level
Theory of mind.
. saturated self.

26. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Agility.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Masturbation
Cultural socialization

27. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Relational aggression
Formal operations.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Identity formation

28. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
Not supported by research
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Social interaction
Skipping.

29. 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.
. children older than seven years of age
Creative arts
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Increases

30. Which of the following categories of racial socialization messages appears to be associated with stronger cognitive abilities and fewer behavior problems among African-American children?
Personal and social conventional
Cultural socialization
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.

31. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...
Socioeconomic status.
. children older than seven years of age
Conservation.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

32. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
An entity model of intelligence.
. Decoding
Autobiographical memory.
Increases; decreases

33. 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...
Autobiographical memory.
Increases
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Emphasize obedience.

34. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...
School-cutoff strategy.
. the social goal
Socialization.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning

35. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...
Compensation.
Plan ahead.
Cultural socialization
Improvement in social status

36. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
Theory of mind.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Creative arts
Deviancy in adolescence.

37. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
A. more wooden buttons.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Exosystem.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'

38. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
support emotion and security needs.
Enabling interactions
The survival goal.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate

39. When talking about their sexual debut -...
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Stage 4
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Cultural socialization

40. Alfred Binet is known for creating...
Social intelligence.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
The ovaries and the testes.

41. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
A performance orientation.
Formal operations
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.

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

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

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.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Realistic mathematics education.
Apprenticeship

45. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Exosystem.
Slower
Mental operations.
Experience sampling method.

46. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Skipping.
Gina - an early-maturing female
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other

47. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Having extended family involved in their lives.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.

48. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
Conservation.
Kitchen.
Microsystem
Formal operations

49. 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.
. psychodynamic view
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Uterus growth.
more

50. 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. more wooden buttons.
Prosocial behavior
Empathy
Identity formation