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Human Development - HDFC

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1. One of the most important predictors of the well-being of children in single-parent families is...
Confusing appearance and reality.
Agility.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Socioeconomic status.

2. Not a risk factor for child abuse?
Emotional climate of family
Genetic and environmental factors.
The human papillomavirus.
. children older than seven years of age

3. The memory strategy that involves making connections between two or more things to be remembered is called...
Personality formation
Elaboration.
Puberty.
Emerging adulthood.

4. __________ can be characterized as a form of activity that is intermediate between the implicit socialization of everyday family life and the explicit teaching of formal education.
Apprenticeship
Not supported by research
Prosocial behavior
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.

5. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
Gay and lesbian parents
Deviancy in adolescence.
Relational aggression
A performance orientation.

6. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Enabling interactions
Sensory register
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.

7. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?
Stage 4
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.
Interdependence

8. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Cultural socialization
Rehearsal.

9. According to Robert Sternberg - intelligence does not comprise of...
Social intelligence.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Culture-sensitive instruction.

10. 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
Dyslexia.
. psychodynamic view
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.

11. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
More
Computer.
Theory of mind.
The ovaries and the testes.

12. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...
Prosocial behavior
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Need about 8 hours.
Independent.

13. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Socioeconomic status.
Social intelligence.
Auxiliary hair appears
Increases; decreases

14. On average - boys are not better than girls at...
Agility.
At risk for obesity.
12 to 15 hours
Formal operations

15. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Personal distress
Biological maturation.

16. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
Stage 4
Moratorium
Not supported by research
Enabling interactions

17. Gardner proposed a theory of intelligence that included...
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Identity integration
Multiple intelligences.

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

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19. 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...
Financial recession.
Flynn effect.
Autobiographical memory.
Culture-sensitive instruction.

20. A teacher and a small group of students read silently through segments of text and take turns leading discussion of their meaning. This is an example of...
Reciprocal teaching.
Experience sampling method.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Exosystem.

21. The ability to classify according to multiple criteria can clearly be seen in a child's ability to...
Decreases; remains the same
Dyslexia.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
More rigid

22. 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.
Uterus growth.
Internalizing problems.
Homophily.

23. Members of a ______ interact on a regular basis; members of a crowd may not.
clique
Uterus growth.
Creative arts
Identification through differentiation

24. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Plan ahead.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Autobiographical memory.

25. Knowledge - skills - and attitudes that are precursors to learning to read - write and do math are known as...
Culture-sensitive instruction.
Increases
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Effortful control.

26. 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?
Me-self
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Postconventional level
Internalizing problems.

27. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
Rehearsal.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
direct instruction - Play
A. more wooden buttons.

28. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Inability to categorize objects
Spermarche.
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Chlamydia

29. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
decreases as a result of a slower pace of physical development.
Privileged domains.
School-cutoff strategy.
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning

30. As a result of _______________ - young children's self-descriptions are usually well integrated into a personality structure.
transductive reasoning
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Identity integration
Inability to categorize objects

31. having extended family involved in their lives.
Script.
The survival goal.
Plan ahead.
Disciplinarian

32. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Specific learning disabilities.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
More rigid
Foreclosure.

33. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
The Oedipus complex.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
stereotypes

34. Whose theory of adolescent development believed that adolescence is the consequence of evolutionary processes?
Gay and lesbian parents
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Piaget
Identity integration

35. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Kitchen.
Disciplinarian
A performance orientation.

36. Authoritarian
Social and emotional development.
Sociodramatic play.
Mental operations.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

37. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
When parents are not getting along
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Privileged domains.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

38. 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 ____________
Privileged domains.
Social conventional; personal
Differential reinforcement
Identity assumption

39. Research has found that adolescents' developmental outcomes are most favorable when their parents use a(n) __________________ approach to parenting.
Authoritative
Identity assumption
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Risky and potentially harmful.

40. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
puberty
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.

41. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
More rigid
Having extended family involved in their lives.
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

42. A child with a high score on quantitative ability and a low score on verbal ability probably has
transductive reasoning
Dyslexia.
Social conventional; personal
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

43. A child sharing her apple slice with another child is an example of...
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Uneven and variable
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Prosocial behavior

44. 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
Biological maturation.
Personal and social conventional
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

45. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
Instrumental aggression.
Privileged domains.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
support emotion and security needs.

46. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
School-cutoff strategy.
Theory of mind.
Prevention science.
An entity model of intelligence.

47. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Microsystem
A performance orientation.
Conservation.

48. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
. children older than seven years of age
Empathy
Spermarche.

49. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
puberty
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
transductive reasoning

50. Alfred Binet is known for creating...
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.