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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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...
Conservation.
Socialization.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Multiple intelligences.

2. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
A. more wooden buttons.
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
An entity model of intelligence.
Multiple intelligences.

3. Concrete operations are mental operations that deal with...
Privileged domains.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
Realistic mathematics education.

4. 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...
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Exosystem.
Decreases; remains the same
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

5. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Authoritative
Mental operations.
The ovaries and the testes.
School-cutoff strategy.

6. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Disciplinarian
The ovaries and the testes.
Decoding.

7. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?
Reasoning about spatial perspectives
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
When parents are not getting along
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.

8. 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...
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Masturbation
Emphasize obedience.
Thought processes.

9. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Not supported by research
Personality formation
Identification through differentiation
Risky and potentially harmful.

10. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?
Improvement in social status
. children older than seven years of age
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Rehearsal.

11. Identity states characterized by low commitment and high crisis/exploration
Prosocial behavior
The Oedipus complex.
Moratorium
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.

12. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Motor drive
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Social and emotional development.
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.

13. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Flynn effect.
Emotional climate of family

14. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that
An infusion of pubertal hormones
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Egocentrism
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

15. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Agility.
Empathy
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Higher levels of intelligence

16. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Emerging adulthood.
Self-regulatory capacity.

17. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
A performance orientation.
Deviancy in adolescence.
Mental operations.
Socioeconomic status.

18. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
Piaget
Stage 4
Sociodramatic play
Having extended family involved in their lives.

19. A child's representation of going to the supermarket is an example of a...
Sociodramatic play
Script.
Relational aggression
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.

20. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

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21. Baumrind found that children of 'permissive' parents tended to...
Self-regulatory capacity.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently
Interdependence
A. more wooden buttons.

22. One of the key aspects of Piaget's formal operations involves...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Disciplinarian
Financial recession.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.

23. When talking about their sexual debut -...
Slower
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Girls report feelings of coercion.

24. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
Plan ahead.
Piaget
Social intelligence.
Apprenticeship

25. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
Gay and lesbian parents
Puberty.
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
Kitchen.

26. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?
Gina - an early-maturing female
Identity formation
Authoritative
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

27. Play in which two or more children cooperatively enact a variety of roles is referred to as...
Sociodramatic play.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking

28. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
Violence
Thought processes.
Inability to categorize objects
Uneven and variable

29. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
Sociodramatic play
Internalizing problems.
Prevention science.
Social and emotional development.

30. Information-processing models of cognitive development often make the analogy between cognitive development and a(n)...
Thought processes.
Prosocial behavior
Computer.
Creative arts

31. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.
transductive reasoning
Emerging adulthood.
Kitchen.
Internalizing problems.

32. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
Specific learning disabilities.
Effortful control.
A performance orientation.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

33. Authoritarian
The ovaries and the testes.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Not supported by research
Social and emotional development.

34. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
More rigid
. saturated self.
Multiple intelligences.
Culture-sensitive instruction.

35. In terms of sleep - adolescents...
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Need about 8 hours.

36. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
Emotional climate of family
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Uneven and variable
more

37. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Self-regulatory capacity.
Social and emotional development.
Independent.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.

38. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
Social intelligence.
Masturbation
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Cultural socialization

39. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
Identification through differentiation
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
Gay and lesbian parents
Authoritative

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

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41. NOT a major difference LeVine found when looking at children of mothers who do and did not have formal educational experience?
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
The survival goal.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Sociodramatic play

42. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
Theory of mind.
Decoding.
Violence
Cultural socialization

43. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
Internalizing problems.
Genetic and environmental factors.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Inability to categorize objects

44. A young child trying to climb into a doll's cradle is demonstrating...
A scale error
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Cultural socialization
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'

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

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46. When it comes to television - children between the ages of 4 and 5...

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47. In Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of development - mass media is part of the...
Exosystem.
Sensory register
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Decreases; remains the same

48. A child two years of age can do all of the following EXCEPT...
Self-regulatory capacity.
throw a ball overhand.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
The survival goal.

49. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
. the social goal
School-cutoff strategy.
Dyslexia.
Flynn effect.

50. 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...
Interdependence
When parents are not getting along
Auxiliary hair appears
A. more wooden buttons.