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Human Development - HDFC

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Instructions:
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1. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...






2. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.






3. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...






4. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...






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

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






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






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






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






10. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?






11. According to Piaget -...






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

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13. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...






14. A primary sex characteristic...






15. 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?






16. Research in which participants carry electronic pagers that beep at random intervals - signaling that they need to fill out a brief report on their current feelings is called...






17. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...






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






19. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...






20. Research on fathers suggests that...






21. 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...






22. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?






23. 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...






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






25. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes






26. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.






27. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...






28. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?






29. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...






30. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...






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






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






33. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...






34. 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.






35. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...






36. NOT characteristic of school problems?






37. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that






38. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation






39. Alfred Binet is known for creating...






40. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?






41. Not considered to be a privileged domain?






42. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...






43. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?






44. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.






45. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...






46. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.






47. 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...






48. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...






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






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