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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
The model does not include a morality of care.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Conservation.

2. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...
Flynn effect.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Increases
Rehearsal.

3. A male's first ejaculation is called...
Cultural socialization
. children older than seven years of age
Spermarche.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.

4. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
Identification through differentiation
to be enrolled in preschool
Self-regulatory capacity.
. children older than seven years of age

5. Not a way schooling differs from traditional apprenticeship training?

6. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Thought processes.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
A scale error

7. 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...
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
The Oedipus complex.
Social interaction

8. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
support emotion and security needs.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Social intelligence.
Gay and lesbian parents

9. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Flynn effect.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
An infusion of pubertal hormones

10. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Interdependence
Authoritarian
Specific learning disabilities.
Cultural socialization

11. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...
Risky and potentially harmful.
Privileged domains.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
. children older than seven years of age

12. 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?
positive emotions
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Postconventional level
Chlamydia

13. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Empathy
Spermarche.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Moratorium

14. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
Culture-sensitive instruction.
. saturated self.
Puberty.
Computer.

15. A child sharing her apple slice with another child is an example of...
Prosocial behavior
Empathy
Thought processes.
positive emotions

16. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that
Theory theory
Cultural socialization
The model does not include a morality of care.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.

17. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Uneven and variable
Violence
At risk for obesity.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence

18. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
Gay and lesbian parents
Higher levels of intelligence
Auxiliary hair appears
Socioeconomic status.

19. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Improvement in social status
More
Skipping.
Multiple intelligences.

20. In the reciprocal-teaching approach...
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
slowly
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Violence

21. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
Rehearsal.
Deviancy in adolescence.
Decreases; remains the same
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking

22. NOT characteristic of school problems?
Chlamydia
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Conservation.

23. Whose theory of adolescent development believed that adolescence is the consequence of evolutionary processes?
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Piaget
. psychodynamic view
More rigid

24. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.
Personality formation
Identification.
Independent.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.

25. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

26. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
School-cutoff strategy.
throw a ball overhand.
Formal operations.
positive emotions

27. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?
A performance orientation.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Gina - an early-maturing female
Disciplinarian

28. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
transductive reasoning
Agility.
Independent.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.

29. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
At risk for obesity.
Gina - an early-maturing female
Agility.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

30. When talking about their sexual debut -...
Gay and lesbian parents
transductive reasoning
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Girls report feelings of coercion.

31. Not a protective factor
Authoritarian
Financial recession.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.

32. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

33. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
Need about 8 hours.
Compensation.
Microsystem
Foreclosure.

34. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Autobiographical memory.
Identity assumption
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy

35. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Prevention science.
Foreclosure.
to be enrolled in preschool

36. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Foreclosure.
Interdependence
puberty
Differential reinforcement

37. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
Improvement in social status
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Not supported by research
An entity model of intelligence.

38. 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?
Effortful control.
Cultural socialization
. Decoding
Conservation.

39. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
Internalizing problems.
The human papillomavirus.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Multiple intelligences.

40. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
Identity formation
Deviancy in adolescence.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Social intelligence.

41. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Biological maturation.
Authoritative
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.

42. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?
Disciplinarian
Apprenticeship
Cultural socialization
. the social goal

43. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Gina - an early-maturing female
Empathy
Decoding.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking

44. The use of meaningful activities - supporting basic skills - and employing mathematical models in the learning of math are components of...
Theory theory
Realistic mathematics education.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other

45. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...
Agility.
Socioeconomic status.
Homophily.
Culture-sensitive instruction.

46. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Risky and potentially harmful.
Formal operations.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Identification.

47. 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...
Slower
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Emphasize obedience.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.

48. According to Piaget -...
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.

49. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Social interaction
Personal and social conventional
Mental operations.

50. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Mental operations.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.