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Human Development - HDFC

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1. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
Puberty.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'

2. Adolescent ethnic identity formation is not strong when...
When parents are not getting along
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Formal operations
Identification.

3. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...
Uneven and variable
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Gay and lesbian parents
Thought processes.

4. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Formal operations.
The Oedipus complex.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.

5. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...
Socialization.
Increases; decreases
transductive reasoning
Skipping.

6. 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?
Skipping.
Auxiliary hair appears
Cultural socialization
A performance orientation.

7. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Increases; decreases
Me-self
Violence

8. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
The Oedipus complex.
Inability to categorize objects
Formal operations

9. 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...
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Mental operations.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
. children older than seven years of age

10. The school-cutoff strategy helps researchers to...

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11. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Socialization.
Specific learning disabilities.

12. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
Spermarche.
Decrease in efficiency
Emerging adulthood.
Effortful control.

13. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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14. How many hours of sleep in a 24-hour period should a child between the ages of 2 and 5 get?
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
12 to 15 hours
clique
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.

15. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
Computer.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
A scale error

16. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?
Theory of mind.
Autobiographical memory.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Auxiliary hair appears

17. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
When parents are not getting along
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
An entity model of intelligence.

18. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
Compensation.
Dyslexia.
Socioeconomic status.
Creative arts

19. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
positive emotions
Financial recession.
School-cutoff strategy.

20. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Instrumental aggression.
Social intelligence.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.

21. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.
Social and emotional development.
Authoritarian
Plan ahead.
Chlamydia

22. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
. saturated self.
Emerging adulthood.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Self-regulatory capacity.

23. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
Effortful control.
Dyslexia.
transductive reasoning
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.

24. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
Authoritative
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
Empathy
Increases; decreases

25. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
Homophily.
Compensation.
controlling conflict within a social group.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

26. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Theory of mind.
Emotional climate of family
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Decrease in efficiency

27. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
Socioeconomic status.
Cultural socialization
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
transductive reasoning

28. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Theory of mind.
The survival goal.
Decoding.
Uterus growth.

29. A primary sex characteristic...
Uterus growth.
When parents are not getting along
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.

30. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Egocentrism
Masturbation
Sociodramatic play

31. 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?
Exosystem.
. psychodynamic view
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.

32. In which stage of forming a sexual minority development would an individual who has had homosexual experiences and recognizes that they prefer sexual relations with members of their own sex but do not openly acknowledge their preference be?
more
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Identity assumption

33. Studies comparing schooled and nonschooled students have demonstrated that...
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Enabling interactions
Dyslexia.
Theory of mind.

34. 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.
A. more wooden buttons.
Compensation.
Chlamydia
Sociodramatic play

35. As metacognition develops over middle childhood - children...
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Need about 8 hours.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.

36. A child sharing her apple slice with another child is an example of...
Multiple intelligences.
throw a ball overhand.
Increases; decreases
Prosocial behavior

37. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
Sociodramatic play
. Decoding
School-cutoff strategy.
An entity model of intelligence.

38. When talking about their sexual debut -...
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Biological maturation.
Social intelligence.
Identity formation

39. NOT characteristic of school problems?
Kitchen.
Postconventional level
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.

40. Which of the following statements about the development of the brain during early childhood is TRUE?

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41. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Multiple intelligences.
Disciplinarian
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Independent.

42. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
Creative arts
Emerging adulthood.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Elaboration.

43. having extended family involved in their lives.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
The survival goal.
Emotional climate of family
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

44. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Multiple intelligences.
Elaboration.
Decrease in efficiency

45. According to Piaget -...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Agility.
Foreclosure.

46. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Stage 4
. the social goal
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

47. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Postconventional level
Increases
Slower
At risk for obesity.

48. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
The model does not include a morality of care.
Higher levels of intelligence
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.

49. A child's ability to recognize that two rows of pennies each with the same number of pennies have the same number of pennies when one row of pennies is longer than the other is called...
The human papillomavirus.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Conservation.
Theory of mind.

50. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.
slowly
Authoritative
Cultural socialization
Spermarche.