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Human Development - HDFC

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When it comes to television - children between the ages of 4 and 5...

2. 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...
Instrumental aggression.
Kitchen.
Improvement in social status
A. more wooden buttons.

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
Biological maturation.
Relational aggression
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.

4. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the development of the brain during early childhood?
Reciprocal teaching.
Mental operations.
to be enrolled in preschool
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.

5. Research that examines the biological and social processes that lead to maladjustment and healthy development is called...
. saturated self.
Financial recession.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Prevention science.

6. Studies comparing schooled and nonschooled students have demonstrated that...
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
more
Confusing appearance and reality.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.

7. Preschool children's inability to take another person's spatial perspective is an example of which of the following?
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Egocentrism
More rigid
Piaget

8. ccording to Kohlberg's cognitive explanation of sex-role identity formation - children go through three stages...
At risk for obesity.
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Homophily.
Tell themselves - 'I can't do that.'

9. The ability to think about other people's mental states is referred to as...
Theory of mind.
Masturbation
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
transductive reasoning

10. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...
Metamemory.
Empathy
Chlamydia
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.

11. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Higher levels of intelligence
Formal operations
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.

12. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...
Personal and social conventional
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Effortful control.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.

13. The establishment of a dominance hierarchy may have the effect of...
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
more
controlling conflict within a social group.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.

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

15. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
Girls report feelings of coercion.
Gay and lesbian parents
Identification through differentiation
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate

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

17. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.

18. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...
. the social goal
Thought processes.
Social conventional; personal
Microsystem

19. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Postconventional level
Formal operations.
Motor drive
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

20. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Foreclosure.
When parents are not getting along
The ovaries and the testes.
Identity assumption

21. Young minority children who are economically disadvantaged benefit from...
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
Prevention science.
Having extended family involved in their lives.

22. Adolescent ethnic identity formation is not strong when...
Parents encourage their teens to spend time with peers of the majority culture to learn to assimilate
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Identity formation
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks

23. In many western cultures - male stereotypes are __________ than female stereotypes
Relational aggression
Gina - an early-maturing female
More rigid
Improvement in social status

24. Children whose cultural backgrounds emphasize __________ may tend to fare poorly in most U.S. classroom settings.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Kitchen.
Transductivity.
Interdependence

25. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
positive emotions
Decoding.
Emerging adulthood.
Effortful control.

26. One of the key aspects of Piaget's formal operations involves...
Social conventional; personal
Identification through differentiation
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Kitchen.

27. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
Rehearsal.
Sociodramatic play.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Authoritarian

28. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Violence

29. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
The human papillomavirus.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Agility.

30. ______________ is a self-focused emotional reaction in the face of another's distress
clique
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.
The model does not include a morality of care.
Personal distress

31. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
Socioeconomic status.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Socialization.
Mental operations.

32. Not a risk factor for child abuse?
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
. children older than seven years of age
Piaget

33. According to Piaget -...
Kitchen.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
A. more wooden buttons.
Compensation.

34. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Social interaction
direct instruction - Play
puberty
Identification.

35. 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...
Emphasize obedience.
Emotional climate of family
clique
to be enrolled in preschool

36. NOT a brain change that occurs during adolescence?
Decreases; remains the same
Decrease in efficiency
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Formal operations

37. 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 ____________
Chlamydia
Agility.
Social conventional; personal
Not supported by research

38. 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...
Compensation.
to be enrolled in preschool
Conservation.
Girls' friendships in adolescence are more intense and intimate.

39. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Organize a stamp collection in terms of country of origin - date - size - etc.
Conservation.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.

40. A three-year-old who believes that a cat wearing a dog mask has actually become a dog is probably...
Rehearsal.
Foreclosure.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Confusing appearance and reality.

41. Which of the following pairs best describes the cognitive development of children between the ages of 2 and 5?
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Egocentrism
Auxiliary hair appears
Uneven and variable

42. Disturbances in emotion or mood such as guilt - depression and anxiety are known as...
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
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.
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Internalizing problems.

43. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...
Computer.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Experience sampling method.

44. During early childhood the growth rates of the body and brain are _________ than they were in infancy.
Slower
Risky and potentially harmful.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
Reasoning about spatial perspectives

45. NOT characteristic of school problems?
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.
Me-self
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.

46. Kohlberg's process of sex-role development mostly closely follows...

47. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

48. 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?
. psychodynamic view
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Uneven and variable
Violence

49. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

50. The steady increase in IQ test performance over the past 100 years is called the...
Flynn effect.
Differential reinforcement
Sensory register
At risk for obesity.