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Human Development - HDFC

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1. The adolescent brain experiences __________________ in the gray matter.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Kitchen.
Prosocial behavior
The drawer in the in kitchen

2. Findings from the research of Kenneth and Mamie Clark has led psychologists to conclude that...
. psychodynamic view
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Decrease in efficiency
to be enrolled in preschool

3. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...
Emphasize obedience.
Theory theory
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Cultural socialization

4. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Confusing appearance and reality.
Prevention science.
An entity model of intelligence.

5. Research on fathers suggests that...
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Formal operations
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.

6. The game 'Simon Says' requires children to employ...
Personal and social conventional
Sociodramatic play
Effortful control.
Emphasize obedience.

7. Research in which participants carry electronic pagers that beep at random intervals - signaling that they need to fill out a brief report on their current feelings is called...
Experience sampling method.
Differential reinforcement
Identity assumption
Apprenticeship

8. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
Emerging adulthood.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Increases; decreases
Self-regulatory capacity.

9. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
Rehearsal.
Emphasize obedience.
Experience sampling method.
Empathy

10. Which view of moral development suggests that children acquire a sense of What is right and wrong from internalizing the moral standards of their parents?
Empathy
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
. psychodynamic view
Stage 4

11. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Effortful control.
The survival goal.
Identity formation

12. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.
Authoritative
Emerging adulthood.
Slower
Neighborhood physical disorder.

13. 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...
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
The Oedipus complex.
transductive reasoning
Masturbation

14. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
Plan ahead.
At risk for obesity.
support emotion and security needs.
A scale error

15. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
The model does not include a morality of care.
Elaboration.
Personal distress
Spermarche.

16. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
clique
Flynn effect.
Agility.

17. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
Biological maturation.
A scale error
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.

18. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Interdependence
The ovaries and the testes.
Emotional climate of family
Gina - an early-maturing female

19. 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?
Postconventional level
Plan ahead.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Me-self

20. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
Cultural socialization
Personal distress
Computer.
The human papillomavirus.

21. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Decoding.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.

22. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Need about 8 hours.
Mental operations.
Social interaction
Microsystem

23. The extent to which friends are similar to one another is referred to as...
Agility.
Apprenticeship
direct instruction - Play
Homophily.

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?
Personal and social conventional
Cultural socialization
Need about 8 hours.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

25. having extended family involved in their lives.
Differential reinforcement
Homophily.
The survival goal.
Internalizing problems.

26. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Rehearsal.
Postconventional level

27. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Multiple intelligences.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Personal distress

28. When family income and maternal employment are held constant - children whose families speak Spanish in the home are less likely...
Dyslexia.
to be enrolled in preschool
Foreclosure.
Empathy

29. 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...
Plan ahead.
Spermarche.
Agility.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

30. In terms of sleep - adolescents...
Cultural socialization
Computer.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Need about 8 hours.

31. 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
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Compensation.
puberty
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.

32. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
stereotypes
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Moratorium
Piaget

33. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Decoding.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.

34. Alfred Binet is known for creating...
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Deviancy in adolescence.
Specific learning disabilities.
When parents are not getting along

35. Not a way schooling differs from traditional apprenticeship training?

36. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
Decision making
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

37. Carol Lee's research on African American adolescents shows the importance of...
Identity integration
Apprenticeship
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Culture-sensitive instruction.

38. EEG coherence refers to the synchronization of...
Microsystem
Emerging adulthood.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.

39. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Slower
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
More rigid
Emotional climate of family

40. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
Auxiliary hair appears
support emotion and security needs.
Prevention science.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.

41. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Emphasize obedience.
Decrease in efficiency
A. more wooden buttons.
Relational aggression

42. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Motor drive
When parents are not getting along
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.

43. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Masturbation
Social and emotional development.
Plan ahead.

44. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

45. Best describes society's attitude about adolescents throughout history?
Moratorium
slowly
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

46. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?
Egocentrism
Identification.
Instrumental aggression.
Empathy

47. Similarity between friends can contribute to...
Exosystem.
An infusion of pubertal hormones
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Deviancy in adolescence.

48. 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...
Autobiographical memory.
Differential reinforcement
Kitchen.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other

49. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
Identification.
Instrumental aggression.
Formal operations
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children

50. What distinguishes formal operations from concrete operations?