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Human Development - HDFC

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1. Which of the following statements about children's experience with interactive media is NOT true?

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2. Authoritative parents are...
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
Confusing appearance and reality.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
When parents are not getting along

3. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
Identity formation
Emergent literacy and emergent numeracy.
Sensory register
Social intelligence.

4. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.
Me-self
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Improvement in social status
Personality formation

5. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
Decreases; remains the same
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy

6. The school-cutoff strategy helps researchers to...

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7. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - in which ecosystem are daycare centers located?
Microsystem
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other

8. Children who watch a lot of programs with violence tend to engage in more aggressive behavior.
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
stereotypes
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Authoritarian

9. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
Exosystem.
Reciprocal teaching.
Formal operations
Personal distress

10. In which stage of forming a sexual minority development would an individual who has had homosexual experiences and recognizes that they prefer sexual relations with members of their own sex but do not openly acknowledge their preference be?
The Oedipus complex.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Me-self
Identity assumption

11. having extended family involved in their lives.
The survival goal.
Identification.
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Script.

12. According to information-processing approach to cognitive development - before stimulation from the environment (or 'input') can be stored in either short-term memory or long-term memory - it must pass through the...
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Sensory register
Formal operations

13. The best advice to a newly-immigrated family if they are concerned with their children's ethnic identity formation
Compensation.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Effortful control.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.

14. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
more
Metamemory.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.

15. The process of associating the letters of the alphabet with corresponding phonemes in the spoken language is referred to as...
Decoding.
Theory of mind.
more
Flynn effect.

16. Girls begin ________ earlier than boys do.
Social and emotional development.
puberty
Personal distress
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning

17. Various studies of the influence of television violence on children's behavior have found...
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
. the social goal
Script.
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.

18. NOT characteristic of school problems?
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Realistic mathematics education.
Need about 8 hours.

19. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
Social conventional; personal
Flynn effect.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Decision making

20. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Emotional climate of family
Emphasize obedience.
A scale error
Identification.

21. In terms of sleep - adolescents...
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
Realistic mathematics education.
Need about 8 hours.
Social conventional; personal

22. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
Confusing appearance and reality.
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
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.

23. 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
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Compensation.
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
Postconventional level

24. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
slowly
Sensory register
more
Increases; decreases

25. 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...
Kitchen.
The Oedipus complex.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Compensation.

26. 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?
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Identity integration
Decreases; remains the same
Thought processes.

27. Height and body weight in childhood are affected by...
Identity integration
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Genetic and environmental factors.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.

28. Studies comparing schooled and nonschooled students have demonstrated that...
Personality formation
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Authoritarian

29. Not a risk factor for child abuse?
. children older than seven years of age
direct instruction - Play
Theory theory
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.

30. Freud is associated with which of the following approaches to sex-role identity formation
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'
Violence
Identification through differentiation
Neighborhood physical disorder.

31. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Gina - an early-maturing female
Flynn effect.
Identification through differentiation

32. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?
Exosystem.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Social conventional; personal
Improvement in social status

33. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
Identification.
Script.
When parents are not getting along
Disciplinarian

34. This change occurs in both males and females during puberty?
Uneven and variable
more
Me-self
Auxiliary hair appears

35. When talking about their sexual debut -...
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Social intelligence.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Girls report feelings of coercion.

36. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that
Transductivity.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.
Realistic mathematics education.
Emerging adulthood.

37. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?
slowly
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Thought processes.
. psychodynamic view

38. Alfred Binet is known for creating...
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking

39. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
Sympathy involves feeling 'other-oriented concern' while empathy involves feeling the same emotion as the other person.
throw a ball overhand.
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Internalizing problems.

40. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Reciprocal teaching.
. children older than seven years of age
Motor drive
Elaboration.

41. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
An entity model of intelligence.
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
Cultural socialization

42. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
Interdependence
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Cultural socialization
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.

43. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Privileged domains.
Uneven and variable
Inability to categorize objects

44. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
. children older than seven years of age
Compensation.
Internalizing problems.
Have difficulty with controlling their impulses - accepting responsibility for their social actions - and acting independently

45. __________ 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.
Me-self
Apprenticeship
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Genetic and environmental factors.

46. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
Uneven and variable
Decreases; remains the same
Not supported by research
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.

47. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'
Need about 8 hours.
Theory theory
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence

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

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49. In adolescence - girls are more likely than boys to experience...
Internalizing problems.
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
When parents are not getting along

50. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
The human papillomavirus.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.
Decrease in efficiency
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.