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Human Development - HDFC

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1. 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?
Agility.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Postconventional level
Flynn effect.

2. 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?
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Dyslexia.
Experience sampling method.
Identity assumption

3. Parents who insist that their adolescent dress in a socially appropriate way is operating from the boundaries of ____________; while an adolescent who insists that dress is a matter of personal choice are operating from the boundaries of ____________
Social conventional; personal
The ovaries and the testes.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Empathy

4. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...
Microsystem
School-cutoff strategy.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.

5. A male's first ejaculation is called...
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Spermarche.
Differential reinforcement
Cultural socialization

6. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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

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8. Cross-cultural research on the effects of schooling suggests that schooling...
Experience sampling method.
Compensation.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children

9. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...
Metamemory.
. saturated self.
Postconventional level
Piaget

10. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Flynn effect.
clique
throw a ball overhand.
Conservation.

11. Various studies of the influence of television violence on children's behavior have found...
Postconventional level
Mental operations.
Identification.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.

12. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
Gina - an early-maturing female
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
stereotypes
. children older than seven years of age

13. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Identification.
Transductivity.
stereotypes

14. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
Deviancy in adolescence.
Biological maturation.
Privileged domains.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.

15. When three-year-old children are told a story about a little boy who puts candy in a drawer - leaves the room - and doesn't see when his mother then moves the candy into the kitchen - they predict the boy will look for the candy in the...
Puberty.
Auxiliary hair appears
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Kitchen.

16. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
More
Emerging adulthood.
Differential reinforcement
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning

17. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?
Stage 4
Emerging adulthood.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Need about 8 hours.

18. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
Confusing appearance and reality.
More
When parents are not getting along
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.

19. 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...
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Social intelligence.
Self-regulatory capacity.
A. more wooden buttons.

20. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Conservation.
Biological maturation.
Increases

21. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
support emotion and security needs.
Conservation.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Realistic mathematics education.

22. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
The model does not include a morality of care.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Decoding.
The ovaries and the testes.

23. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Genetic and environmental factors.
Personality formation
Independent.
A scale error

24. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Violence
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.

25. Research on fathers suggests that...
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Disciplinarian
Decreases; remains the same
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.

26. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
Authoritarian
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Effortful control.
Auxiliary hair appears

27. having extended family involved in their lives.
When parents are not getting along
Flynn effect.
A. more wooden buttons.
The survival goal.

28. Baumrind's research found that children of authoritarian parents were...
Decrease in efficiency
At risk for obesity.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

29. 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...
An infusion of pubertal hormones
The Oedipus complex.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Egocentrism

30. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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31. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
Confusing appearance and reality.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.

32. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
Girls report feelings of coercion.
At risk for obesity.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence

33. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that
Emphasize obedience.
Elaboration.
Cultural socialization
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.

34. According to Piaget -...
throw a ball overhand.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Biological maturation.
Social intelligence.

35. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Foreclosure.
Internalizing problems.
Skipping.
Flynn effect.

36. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...
Homophily.
The Oedipus complex.
Need about 8 hours.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.

37. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Gina - an early-maturing female
Decrease in efficiency
transductive reasoning
Decoding.

38. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Identification.
Decreases; remains the same
Specific learning disabilities.

39. 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
The Oedipus complex.
clique
Differential reinforcement

40. The process by which children acquire the knowledge - standards - and values of their society is referred to as...
At risk for obesity.
Rehearsal.
Slower
Socialization.

41. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
Agility.
Sociodramatic play
Puberty.
Decoding.

42. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
A. more wooden buttons.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
More rigid

43. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
Enabling interactions
A performance orientation.
Identity assumption
Need about 8 hours.

44. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
Internalizing problems.
Not supported by research
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Having extended family involved in their lives.

45. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...
Socialization.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.

46. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...
Improvement in social status
Exosystem.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Girls report feelings of coercion.

47. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Formal operations
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

48. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
When parents are not getting along
Slower
Specific learning disabilities.
Computer.

49. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...
Plan ahead.
Social interaction
Girls report feelings of coercion.
A performance orientation.

50. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...
Piaget
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Personal distress
Foreclosure.