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Human Development - HDFC

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1. 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
A scale error
to be enrolled in preschool
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.

2. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Agility.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Flynn effect.
At risk for obesity.

3. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?
Disciplinarian
Gay and lesbian parents
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.

4. Children in middle childhood experience a significant increase in size and strength - but the increases occur more ______ than in infancy and early childhood.
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
slowly
More
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.

5. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Cultural socialization
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Gina - an early-maturing female

6. Not a characteristic of a child who has recently entered Piaget's preoperational stage?
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Inability to categorize objects

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

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8. Two major sources for the formation of extended families are...
12 to 15 hours
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.

9. Dyslexia - dyscalculia - and dysgraphia are examples of...
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Foreclosure.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Specific learning disabilities.

10. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
Egocentrism
positive emotions
Genetic and environmental factors.
Thought processes.

11. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
clique
Violence
. psychodynamic view
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.

12. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Slower
Realistic mathematics education.

13. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
puberty
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.

14. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Formal operations.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
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

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

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16. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
Deviancy in adolescence.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Effortful control.
Experience sampling method.

17. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?
Improvement in social status
. the social goal
At risk for obesity.
Script.

18. Aggression results from urges that build up over time until they are released in an explosion of violence.
Not supported by research
Specific learning disabilities.
Auxiliary hair appears
Decreases; remains the same

19. Refers to the object-self and includes all of the things that people know about themselves - such as their social relationships and their traits
Me-self
Moratorium
Autobiographical memory.
12 to 15 hours

20. Authoritative parents are...
puberty
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
to be enrolled in preschool

21. The term gonads refers to...
. Decoding
An entity model of intelligence.
The ovaries and the testes.
Mental operations.

22. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
positive emotions
A. more wooden buttons.
Motor drive

23. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Sociodramatic play.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

24. 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?
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Plan ahead.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Cultural socialization

25. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Sensory register
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Empathy

26. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Skipping.
The human papillomavirus.
12 to 15 hours

27. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.
transductive reasoning
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.

28. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?
Homophily.
More rigid
Stage 4
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.

29. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
Stage 4
Genetic and environmental factors.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Internalizing problems.

30. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
more
Disciplinarian
Specific learning disabilities.
Prevention science.

31. Authoritarian
Prosocial behavior
. Decoding
Social and emotional development.
Script.

32. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
Decrease in efficiency
The model does not include a morality of care.
Emphasize obedience.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.

33. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Increases; decreases
Cultural socialization
The Oedipus complex.
Increases

34. 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?
Personal and social conventional
The Oedipus complex.
Stage 4
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

35. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
. children older than seven years of age
Internalizing problems.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
throw a ball overhand.

36. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
A performance orientation.
. children older than seven years of age
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
More

37. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Personality formation
Prevention science.
Uneven and variable
Improvement in social status

38. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Identity formation
Experience sampling method.
Decrease in efficiency

39. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to puberty?
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Experience sampling method.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

40. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
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
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Sociodramatic play.
Thought processes.

41. 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
slowly
The human papillomavirus.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.

42. 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...
clique
Transductivity.
Emphasize obedience.
Socioeconomic status.

43. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?
Theory theory
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Increases

44. 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
Compensation.
Identity formation
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Theory theory

45. According to Piaget - _____________ is an important source of cognitive conflict.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Multiple intelligences.
Social interaction
Disciplinarian

46. 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.
Sociodramatic play
Moratorium
slowly

47. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
Social intelligence.
The human papillomavirus.
Sociodramatic play
Differential reinforcement

48. Various studies of the influence of television violence on children's behavior have found...
Confusing appearance and reality.
Theory theory
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.

49. having extended family involved in their lives.
12 to 15 hours
Cultural socialization
Transductivity.
The survival goal.

50. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
Me-self
Motor drive
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
At risk for obesity.