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Human Development - HDFC

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

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2. In middle childhood - boys are not better than girls at...
Skipping.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
An infusion of pubertal hormones

3. Research on learning mathematics has revealed that...
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.
A scale error
. the social goal
Motor drive

4. Not an assumption of the modularity theory?
Deviancy in adolescence.
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Sociodramatic play

5. The capacity to share in someone else's emotional experience and feel what that person is feeling is referred to as...
more
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
Empathy
Identity formation

6. The pleasure young children take in using their new motor skills is referred to as...
Motor drive
Apprenticeship
Authoritative
positive emotions

7. Metacognition refers to the ability to think about one's own...
Decision making
The ovaries and the testes.
Thought processes.
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.

8. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.
Personality formation
Interdependence
Moratorium
Identification through differentiation

9. If a 5-year-old watches a little girl put a piece of candy into a drawer in the kitchen and then watches the girl's mother move the piece of candy to the refrigerator without the little girl knowing - where will the 5-year-old say the little girl wil
The drawer in the in kitchen
The Oedipus complex.
Identification.
support emotion and security needs.

10. 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.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.
Apprenticeship
Me-self

11. Adolescents most at-risk for depression and eating disorders?
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
Slower
Gina - an early-maturing female
Internalizing problems.

12. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
Skipping.
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.

13. 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?
Elaboration.
Increases
. psychodynamic view
Need about 8 hours.

14. A child who says - 'I can't do that' after failing at a task holds...
Risky and potentially harmful.
Warm - autonomous - and explain the limits they set with their children
A performance orientation.
At risk for obesity.

15. In which category of ethnic socialization do parents who promote ethnic pride and emphasize cultural heritage fall?
Exosystem.
Egocentrism
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Cultural socialization

16. Which of the instructional discourse styles uses the 'known-answer question?'
Uneven and variable
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Kitchen.
Disciplinarian

17. Hitting another child to get a toy is an example of...
Instrumental aggression.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
more
Social intelligence.

18. When are siblings more likely to fight with one another?
Identification through differentiation
School problems usually have several acceptable solutions that can be reached many ways.
When parents are not getting along
Theory of mind.

19. A male's first ejaculation is called...
Instruct children in traditions of the native culture.
. psychodynamic view
Puberty.
Spermarche.

20. A problem in distressed communities that includes physical deterioration and chaotic activity is called...
direct instruction - Play
Cultural socialization
Neighborhood physical disorder.
Microsystem

21. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
Spermarche.
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
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
. saturated self.

22. Being poor in early childhood is ___________ challenging to children's well-being than being poor later in life.
More
Empathy
Use an elaborative style when talking to their children about the event to be remembered.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

23. Which of the following do(es) NOT have clear negative influences on children's development?
Rehearsal.
Gay and lesbian parents
Not supported by research
Identity formation

24. In adolescence - boys' crying _______________ in frequency; while girls' crying ________________ in frequency.
Decreases; remains the same
Social intelligence.
Cultural socialization
Me-self

25. According to research - which parental interactions lead to healthy psychological and identity development in teenagers?
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Authoritarian
Enabling interactions
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.

26. 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?
Identity assumption
Synaptogenesis followed by synaptic pruning
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.
More rigid

27. One critique of Kohlberg's moral stages of development is that...
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
The model does not include a morality of care.
A scale error
Decoding.

28. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
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.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Gina - an early-maturing female
Become more accurate in recognizing the limits of their knowledge and problem-solving skills.

29. Vygotsky believed that which of the following plays a key role in self-regulation and can allow children to create their own zones of proximal development?
Higher levels of intelligence
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Piaget
direct instruction - Play

30. Apprentices receive ______________ to learn their craft.
Opportunities to observe and practice specific tasks
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
support emotion and security needs.
Specific learning disabilities.

31. Knowledge about one's own memory processes is referred to as...
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
The drawer in the in kitchen
Plan ahead.
Metamemory.

32. Developmentalists refer to the ages 18 to 25 as...
Privileged domains.
Elaboration.
Improvement in social status
Emerging adulthood.

33. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Interdependence
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
Identification.
A. more wooden buttons.

34. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
Personal and social conventional
. Decoding
School-cutoff strategy.
Emerging adulthood.

35. The increasing memory performance characteristic of middle childhood does not depend on...
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Script.
controlling conflict within a social group.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.

36. When it comes to the sexual debut - in the U.S. -...
Decreases; remains the same
Boys tend to report more positive feelings about their first intercourse than girls do.
Self-regulatory capacity.
clique

37. Cross-cultural research on the effects of schooling suggests that schooling...
Differential reinforcement
. children older than seven years of age
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.

38. A primary sex characteristic...
Uterus growth.
more
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Personal distress

39. Chanting the names of the items that one needs to buy at the store is an example of...
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Sociodramatic play.
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
Rehearsal.

40. According to Erikson - adolescents must accomplish _______ before they move on to adulthood; if they fail to do so - they will suffer from identity confusion.
Script.
Identity formation
Postconventional level
Puberty.

41. Due to their cognitive immaturity - children do not recognize or internalize _________ seen on television.
Apprenticeship
Violence
Authoritative
Prevention science.

42. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development - children between the ages of 2 and 6...
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
Sociodramatic play
Biological maturation.
Neighborhood physical disorder.

43. In Kohlberg's Conventional level of moral reasoning - moral thinking at stages 3 and 4 are partially dependent on...
Helps children to develop certain context-specific memorization and information-processing strategies.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Formal operations.
Emotional climate of family

44. Cross-cultural research on memory has demonstrated that...
Specific strategies for remembering are not universal.
. saturated self.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Social intelligence.

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

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46. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
Biological maturation.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
An entity model of intelligence.
transductive reasoning

47. Increasing decentration in middle childhood allows children to engage in...
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
Mental operations.
Assess the effects of schooling on children's cognitive processes.
Disciplinarian

48. 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...
Sensory register
Basic sex-role identity - sex-role stability - and sex-role constancy
Transductivity.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.

49. According to research on adolescent behavior - risk taking may be the consequence of...
Initiation-reply-feedback sequence
Identity integration
puberty
Pubertal hormones and lack of maturation in the frontal lobes of the brain.

50. What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

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