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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
More
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Creative arts
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.

2. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
. psychodynamic view
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Auxiliary hair appears
Rehearsal.

3. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Microsystem
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Sociodramatic play

4. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
Differential reinforcement
Mental operations.
Emotional climate of family
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

5. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
Uneven and variable
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Not supported by research

6. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Foreclosure.
Independent.

7. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
More rigid
Stage 4
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.

8. LeVine proposed that three major goals are shared by parents the world over. Not among them?
Relational aggression
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
. the social goal
Compensation.

9. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
Rehearsal.
Privileged domains.
Plan ahead.
Interdependence

10. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Flynn effect.
Effortful control.
Emerging adulthood.

11. Freud attributed adolescent development primarily to...
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Biological maturation.
Sociodramatic play
Foreclosure.

12. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Identity formation
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.

13. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
Authoritarian
Confusing appearance and reality.
. saturated self.
Realistic mathematics education.

14. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Privileged domains.
Motor drive
Autobiographical memory.

15. Alfred Binet is known for creating...
Slower
12 to 15 hours
Social interaction
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.

16. 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
Metamemory.
Cultural socialization
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.

17. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
When parents are not getting along
Identification.
A scale error
. saturated self.

18. According to research - what seems to be associated with the emotional intensity and sensation-seeking behavior experienced by many adolescents?
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Theory theory
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Disciplinarian

19. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
A scale error
Conservation.
Decrease in efficiency

20. 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...
Emphasize obedience.
slowly
More
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

21. 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?
Plan ahead.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
direct instruction - Play
Identity assumption

22. 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?
Personality formation
. the social goal
Identity integration
Me-self

23. Cross-cultural research on the effects of schooling suggests that schooling...
Conservation.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Prosocial behavior

24. Which of the following is considered a control process by information-processing theory?
Apprenticeship
Decision making
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Conservation.

25. Gardner and Rogoff used mazes to assess children's ability to...
Plan ahead.
Decreases; remains the same
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.

26. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
The Oedipus complex.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Enabling interactions

27. The no-nonsense parenting style practiced among African Americans is similar to Baumrind's pattern of _____________ parenting.
Interdependence
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Differential reinforcement
Authoritarian

28. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Increases
throw a ball overhand.
Improvement in social status

29. The understanding that the properties of an object or substance remain the same even if its appearance is altered in some superficial way is called...
Agility.
The drawer in the in kitchen
support emotion and security needs.
Conservation.

30. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Confusing appearance and reality.
Socioeconomic status.
. psychodynamic view

31. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Privileged domains.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Authoritarian
Slower

32. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Foreclosure.
. children older than seven years of age
More rigid

33. Researchers have found that children's memories improve when mothers...
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Puberty.
Reciprocal teaching.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

34. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
puberty
Masturbation
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Confusing appearance and reality.

35. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.

36. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Moratorium
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Neighborhood physical disorder.

37. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Identification through differentiation
Motor drive
An infusion of pubertal hormones

38. Research on fathers suggests that...
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Inability to categorize objects
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.

39. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Higher levels of intelligence
Formal operations.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Identity formation

40. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
Social conventional; personal
Apprenticeship
. Decoding
Specific learning disabilities.

41. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
Formal operations.
Moratorium

42. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?

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

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44. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
Stage 4
Puberty.
The human papillomavirus.
Script.

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...
A. more wooden buttons.
Microsystem
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Identification through differentiation

46. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
Reciprocal teaching.
throw a ball overhand.
Dyslexia.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.

47. In early childhood - a child's appetite usually...
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Self-regulatory capacity.
The drawer in the in kitchen

48. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Mental operations.
Agility.
Cultural socialization
Higher levels of intelligence

49. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?
Computer.
More
Gina - an early-maturing female
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

50. 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...
The Oedipus complex.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Mental operations.