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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Cross-cultural studies of concrete operations demonstrate that...

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2. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
Creative arts
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
direct instruction - Play
Formal operations

3. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Disciplinarian
A performance orientation.

4. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Creative arts
Interdependence
Plan ahead.
Sociodramatic play.

5. Not a risk factor for child abuse?
Metamemory.
Flynn effect.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
. children older than seven years of age

6. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
. saturated self.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy

7. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Realistic mathematics education.
clique
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Agility.

8. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Biological maturation.
Decision making
Formal operations.
An infusion of pubertal hormones

9. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Apprenticeship
Uterus growth.
Personal distress
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy

10. Alfred Binet is known for creating...
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Thought processes.
Privileged domains.

11. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
puberty
Not supported by research
Auxiliary hair appears
Formal operations.

12. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
More rigid
Emotional climate of family
Genetic and environmental factors.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.

13. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Moratorium
Slower
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.

14. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
throw a ball overhand.
Cultural socialization
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.
Prosocial behavior

15. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
direct instruction - Play
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Computer.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.

16. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
Transductivity.
Violence
Theory of mind.
The drawer in the in kitchen

17. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Conservation.
A performance orientation.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Theory theory

18. 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...
Social interaction
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Sensory register
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.

19. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Creative arts
Egocentrism
Internalizing problems.

20. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation
A scale error
The human papillomavirus.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Personal distress

21. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?
Reciprocal teaching.
At risk for obesity.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Stage 4

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

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23. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Rehearsal.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

24. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...
More
Foreclosure.
Exosystem.
. Decoding

25. A child who says - 'The liquid is higher - but the glass is thinner -' when asked the reason for their answer to a task of conservation is demonstrating...
clique
Cultural socialization
Prosocial behavior
Compensation.

26. Research on parent-adolescent relationships suggests that a great deal of conflict arises because of differences in opinion about the boundaries between which two social domains?
Agility.
Auxiliary hair appears
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Personal and social conventional

27. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
Me-self
Masturbation
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Biological maturation.

28. 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.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Skipping.
Social interaction

29. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Compensation.
Personality formation
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

30. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes
Script.
More rigid
Spermarche.
Culture-sensitive instruction.

31. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Socialization.

32. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Computer.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Increases; decreases

33. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
Conservation.
stereotypes
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Dyslexia.

34. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Internalizing problems.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
When parents are not getting along

35. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
to be enrolled in preschool
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Rehearsal.
Microsystem

36. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
Auxiliary hair appears
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Identification.
Having extended family involved in their lives.

37. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
Financial recession.
A. more wooden buttons.
Need about 8 hours.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.

38. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
Confusing appearance and reality.
Stage 4
. Decoding
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

39. 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
. Decoding
slowly
Emotional climate of family

40. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Risky and potentially harmful.
Increases; decreases
Agility.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.

41. __________ 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.
Prevention science.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Apprenticeship
Agility.

42. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
. Decoding
Uterus growth.
Agility.

43. One of the key aspects of Piaget's formal operations involves...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Specific learning disabilities.
Girls report feelings of coercion.

44. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.
Disciplinarian
Authoritarian
Independent.
Increases

45. 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...
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
A. more wooden buttons.
. saturated self.
School-cutoff strategy.

46. Studies of parenting practices across ethnic communities have revealed that...
A. more wooden buttons.
controlling conflict within a social group.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Identity integration

47. Not a protective factor
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Financial recession.
Conservation.
Biological maturation.

48. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...
A performance orientation.
Thought processes.
Emphasize obedience.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

49. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Effortful control.
Sociodramatic play.
The model does not include a morality of care.

50. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Egocentrism
Self-regulatory capacity.
Identification through differentiation
Flynn effect.