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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
Privileged domains.
Compensation.
Plan ahead.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking

2. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
controlling conflict within a social group.
Instrumental aggression.

3. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
Social conventional; personal
Creative arts
More rigid
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.

4. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Authoritarian
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Independent.
Rehearsal.

5. Studies comparing schooled and nonschooled students have demonstrated that...
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Social and emotional development.
Empathy
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.

6. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
Computer.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Motor drive
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.

7. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Metamemory.
Multiple intelligences.
A performance orientation.
Flynn effect.

8. Studies that compare 6-year-olds who have experienced formal schooling with 6-year-olds who have not yet experienced formal schooling use the...
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
School-cutoff strategy.
Rehearsal.
. Decoding

9. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Social conventional; personal
Relational aggression
Flynn effect.
Slower

10. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
Financial recession.
Confusing appearance and reality.
Uterus growth.
Metamemory.

11. According to Piaget -...
Authoritative
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Autobiographical memory.

12. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Confusing appearance and reality.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.

13. 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...
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Privileged domains.
Emphasize obedience.
Having extended family involved in their lives.

14. By helping children to recall and interpret events in which they have participated - adults help children acquire an enduring sense of themselves by creating a sort of personal narrative - referred to as the child's...
Increases
Autobiographical memory.
School-cutoff strategy.
. psychodynamic view

15. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Social interaction
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Compensation.

16. 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?
Identity assumption
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Improvement in social status
Chlamydia

17. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
Gay and lesbian parents
Not supported by research
Specific learning disabilities.
Emotional climate of family

18. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?
Elaboration.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
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.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

19. 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
controlling conflict within a social group.
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.
Higher levels of intelligence

20. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Social intelligence.
direct instruction - Play

21. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
Gay and lesbian parents
Sociodramatic play.
Microsystem
Cultural socialization

22. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
. saturated self.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

23. Adolescent ethnic identity formation is not strong when...
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
. psychodynamic view
Chlamydia
Microsystem

24. Not considered to be a privileged domain?
Creative arts
At risk for obesity.
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.
Gay and lesbian parents

25. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
Conservation.
Emphasize obedience.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
At risk for obesity.

26. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
Skipping.
Deviancy in adolescence.
Empathy
An infusion of pubertal hormones

27. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Transductivity.
Cultural socialization

28. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?
Stage 4
Social and emotional development.
Biological maturation.
Metamemory.

29. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Uneven and variable
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
controlling conflict within a social group.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence

30. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Elaboration.
controlling conflict within a social group.
Me-self
Moratorium

31. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
clique
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

32. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
More rigid
Increases
Social intelligence.

33. Research on sleep in children between the ages of 2 and 5 has shown that...
School-cutoff strategy.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Transductivity.
Slower

34. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
The human papillomavirus.
Slower
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

35. Research on the use of interactive media suggests that boys who play computer games often spend _________ time with their friends outside of school than boys who spend little to no time playing on the computer.
more
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Authoritarian
Social interaction

36. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?
The model does not include a morality of care.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.

37. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Social interaction
Formal operations

38. 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
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Experience sampling method.
Socialization.
Compensation.

39. When talking about their sexual debut -...
When parents are not getting along
Social interaction
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
Girls report feelings of coercion.

40. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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41. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Identification.
A performance orientation.
Skipping.
Personal and social conventional

42. 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?
Identification through differentiation
Decision making
Personal and social conventional
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.

43. How many hours of sleep in a 24-hour period should a child between the ages of 2 and 5 get?
12 to 15 hours
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Compensation.

44. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...
. children older than seven years of age
Rehearsal.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.

45. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
Prevention science.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Reciprocal teaching.
Specific learning disabilities.

46. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
Violence
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Authoritative
Rehearsal.

47. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.
Increases; decreases
Experience sampling method.
The ovaries and the testes.
Decreases; remains the same

48. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
. psychodynamic view
Authoritative
Emotional climate of family
Girls report feelings of coercion.

49. The most common STI in the U.S. is...
The human papillomavirus.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Reciprocal teaching.
Identification through differentiation

50. 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...
Mental operations.
Sensory register
Skipping.
Increases