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Human Development - HDFC

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1. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
Identity formation
Genetic and environmental factors.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Confusing appearance and reality.

2. Which view of moral development suggests that children acquire a sense of What is right and wrong from internalizing the moral standards of their parents?
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
. psychodynamic view
Authoritarian

3. 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?
direct instruction - Play
throw a ball overhand.
Disciplinarian
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.

4. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Conservation.
puberty
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Personal distress

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

6. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Authoritarian

7. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...
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Identification.
Socialization.
Identity formation

8. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
controlling conflict within a social group.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
throw a ball overhand.

9. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Increases; decreases
Emotional climate of family
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.
Violence

10. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Prevention science.
At risk for obesity.

11. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
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Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
More
Privileged domains.

12. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.
Homophily.
Authoritative
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Rehearsal.

13. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
. psychodynamic view
Mental operations.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.

14. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
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
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Prevention science.

15. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Interdependence
Me-self

16. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Internalizing problems.
Relational aggression

17. NOT characteristic of school problems?
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Prevention science.
Having extended family involved in their lives.

18. 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.
Social intelligence.
Not supported by research
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Sociodramatic play

19. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
School-cutoff strategy.
Relational aggression
clique

20. 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...
Financial recession.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
A. more wooden buttons.

21. According to Piaget -...
Formal operations.
A performance orientation.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks

22. Not a protective factor
Stage 4
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Financial recession.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.

23. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...
Plan ahead.
Sociodramatic play
Formal operations
. children older than seven years of age

24. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
Specific learning disabilities.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.

25. One of the key aspects of Piaget's formal operations involves...
Privileged domains.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Compensation.

26. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
Interdependence
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Improvement in social status
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.

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

28. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
clique
Formal operations
Internalizing problems.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.

29. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Need about 8 hours.
Puberty.

30. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
Metamemory.
Reciprocal teaching.
Flynn effect.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.

31. Research on fathers suggests that...
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
The ovaries and the testes.

32. 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...
Reciprocal teaching.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
. saturated self.
School-cutoff strategy.

33. 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?
Biological maturation.
Sociodramatic play.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Postconventional level

34. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Slower
Violence

35. Borke's replication of Piaget and Inhelder's three-mountain experiment in which children were presented with a Sesame Street character that drove around familiar landmarks demonstrated that three- and four-year-old children are capable of...
The survival goal.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Stage 4
When parents are not getting along

36. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
Identity formation
Postconventional level
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

37. The term gonads refers to...
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
positive emotions
The ovaries and the testes.
Violence

38. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
. the social goal
Rehearsal.
Sociodramatic play.
Elaboration.

39. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
Dyslexia.
Internalizing problems.
. saturated self.
Theory of mind.

40. Which type of aggression are preschool aged girls more likely to engage in than preschool boys?
Risky and potentially harmful.
Spermarche.
more
Relational aggression

41. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
Autobiographical memory.
Spermarche.
Emotional climate of family
Theory of mind.

42. A child sharing her apple slice with another child is an example of...
Culture-sensitive instruction.
12 to 15 hours
Prosocial behavior
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

43. By helping children to recall and interpret events in which they have participated - adults help children acquire an enduring sense of themselves by creating a sort of personal narrative - referred to as the child's...
Self-regulatory capacity.
Need about 8 hours.
Autobiographical memory.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.

44. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
Higher levels of intelligence
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Violence

45. The understanding that the properties of an object or substance remain the same even if its appearance is altered in some superficial way is called...
Sociodramatic play
Biological maturation.
Conservation.
Social conventional; personal

46. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
Script.
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
transductive reasoning
Financial recession.

47. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Enabling interactions
Decrease in efficiency
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Confusing appearance and reality.

48. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Personality formation
Specific learning disabilities.
Conservation.

49. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
clique
Enabling interactions
Genetic and environmental factors.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.

50. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
clique
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
A performance orientation.
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