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Human Development - HDFC

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?






2. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?






3. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...






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






5. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...






6. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...






7. On average - boys are not better than girls at...






8. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?






9. A child reasons that the change in the level of a quantity of liquid brought about by pouring it from a short - wide beaker to a tall - narrow beaker is not caused by a change in the amount of the liquid - but by the fact that the taller beaker is al






10. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?






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






12. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...






13. Not considered to be a privileged domain?






14. 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...






15. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...






16. NOT characteristic of school problems?






17. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...






18. Research on fathers suggests that...






19. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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






21. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?






22. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...






23. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...






24. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...






25. In adolescence - cliques serve to...






26. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...






27. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...






28. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...






29. Which of the following statements about children's experience with interactive media is NOT true?

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30. 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?






31. One of the key aspects of Piaget's formal operations involves...






32. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.






33. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...






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






35. 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...






36. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?






37. A primary sex characteristic...






38. Findings from the research of Kenneth and Mamie Clark has led psychologists to conclude that...






39. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?






40. 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?






41. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...






42. The memory strategy that involves making connections between two or more things to be remembered is called...






43. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...






44. 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.






45. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...






46. 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?






47. having extended family involved in their lives.






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






49. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...






50. In this stage of sexual identity development are sexual-minority individuals who have come to terms with their homosexuality and are 'out' in their communities?