Test your basic knowledge |

Human Development - HDFC

Subject : teaching

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. NOT thought to influence the age at Which menarche occurs?
Instrumental aggression.
More
The frontal cortex experiences an increase in myelination which leads to an increase in a child's ability to regulate behavior and plan.
Masturbation

2. A culture that emphasizes the individual and the individual's personal choices and goals is said to be...
Mental operations.
Identity integration
Self-regulatory capacity.
Independent.

3. Results from a longitudinal study done in the U.S. revealed that children identified as overweight between the ages of 2 and 4...
A scale error
Cultural traditions and economic hardship.
Social intelligence.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.

4. Throughout adolescence - boys do not tend to have more ___________ than girls.
Development occurs in a series of qualitative stage-like changes.
Neighborhood physical disorder.
positive emotions
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.

5. Which of the following has the strongest effect on the quality of sibling relationships?
Formal operations
Kitchen.
Exosystem.
Emotional climate of family

6. Not a risk factor for child abuse?
. children older than seven years of age
to be enrolled in preschool
Personal distress
The human papillomavirus.

7. During puberty - girls and boys may experience negative psychological consequences Which may be linked to...
A cultural ideal of muscularity for boys and thinness for girls.
Relational aggression
The brain is fully mature - but the connections between neurons are still being made in early childhood.
Most children are not getting enough sleep in a 24-hour period.

8. A self completely full of multiple selves is said to be a...
A teacher and a small group of students read a segment of text silently and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning.
. saturated self.
Increases
Financial recession.

9. 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?
Decision making
Cultural socialization
slowly
Postconventional level

10. The combination-of-liquid problem is a test of...
Genetic and environmental factors.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Metamemory.
Formal operations

11. A psychological process in which children try to look - act - feel - and be like significant people in their social environment is referred to as...
Identification.
transductive reasoning
Flynn effect.
controlling conflict within a social group.

12. Findings from the research of Kenneth and Mamie Clark has led psychologists to conclude that...
direct instruction - Play
African American children define themselves in terms of the majority group.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
slowly

13. having extended family involved in their lives.
Having extended family involved in their lives.
Decoding.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.
The survival goal.

14. Best characterizes girls' friendships in adolescence?

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

15. The biological developments that make an individual of either sex capable of sexual reproduction are collectively referred to as...
When speed and accuracy mattered - children didn't plan out their route through the maze ahead of time.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.
Puberty.
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.

16. Children whose BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile are considered to be...
At risk for obesity.
Rehearsal.
Specific learning disabilities.
The ovaries and the testes.

17. In the U.S. - teenage sex is considered by many to be...
Risky and potentially harmful.
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Confusing appearance and reality.
Socioeconomic status.

18. Various studies of the influence of television violence on children's behavior have found...
Concrete operational thinking increases with age and is relatively unaffected by schooling.
Prevention science.
Correlations between television violence and aggressive behavior.
Initiation-reply-feedback sequences.

19. 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?
Gay and lesbian parents
Identity assumption
Uterus growth.
Auxiliary hair appears

20. 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
School-cutoff strategy.
Emerging adulthood.
Compensation.
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.

21. A child who thinks that people cannot get any smarter than they already are holds...
A performance orientation.
An individual's ability to relate relationships to each other
An entity model of intelligence.
Increases

22. A child who says - 'The liquid is higher - but the glass is thinner -' when asked the reason for their answer to a task of conservation is demonstrating...
Compensation.
Thought processes.
Agility.
Culture-sensitive instruction.

23. Not one of the three major parenting patterns identified by Baumrind?
Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Disciplinarian
The ovaries and the testes.
Interdependence

24. Compared to teenage girls - teenage boys' friendships are...
Less intimate because they are less trusting of their friends.
Slower
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)
Personality formation

25. 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
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Inability to categorize objects
More rigid

26. Research on the use of interactive media suggests that boys who play computer games often spend _________ time with their friends outside of school than boys who spend little to no time playing on the computer.
more
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Identity assumption
Motor drive

27. During adolescence - the amount of time teens spend with their peers ___________ and the amount of time teens spend with their parents ___________.
Increases; decreases
Homophily.
Electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
Gay and lesbian parents

28. Which type of aggression are preschool aged girls more likely to engage in than preschool boys?
Relational aggression
controlling conflict within a social group.
Increases; decreases
Biological maturation.

29. Which STI is the most commonly reported in the U.S.?
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.
When parents are not getting along
Formal operations
Chlamydia

30. 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...
Exosystem.
Identity integration
Kitchen.
Decreases; remains the same

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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

32. In which stage of Kohlberg's conventional level of moral reasoning is a child whose reasoning involves 'law-and-order morality'?
Metamemory.
Sociodramatic play
Self-regulatory capacity.
Stage 4

33. Becoming able to control one's emotions - behaviors - and mental states is referred to as the development of one's...
Identification through differentiation
throw a ball overhand.
Self-regulatory capacity.
Personal and social conventional

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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

35. 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.
Mental actions that are coordinated in logical systems.
Slower
Cultural differences may influence children's performance on the tasks commonly used to assess concrete operational abilities.

36. Developmentalists call the development of children's own unique patterns of feeling - thinking - and behaving in a variety of circumstances ________________.
Puberty.
Theory theory
Slower
Personality formation

37. How does gender schema theory differ from cognitive-development theory?
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
Sociodramatic play
Compensation.
When parents are not getting along

38. NOT an effect of schooling on the improvement of cognitive performance?
A test for diagnosing mental subnormality.
B. are more likely to be overweight as adolescents.
Improvement in social status
Decision making

39. Which of the following categories of racial socialization messages appears to be associated with stronger cognitive abilities and fewer behavior problems among African-American children?
clique
Cultural socialization
An entity model of intelligence.
Slower speed of naming objects to be remembered.

40. Not thought to be a factor involved in the differences between girls' and boys' emotional reactions to 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
more
Females enter puberty earlier than do males.
The human papillomavirus.

41. In adolescence - cliques serve to...
Have a difficult time understanding that what they see on television isn't really real.
Postconventional level
Internalizing problems.
support emotion and security needs.

42. The ability to remember which of the following indicates that an individual has a large memory span?
Enabling interactions
Exosystem.
to be enrolled in preschool
A phone number provided a single time by directory assistance (i.e. - 411)

43. Focusing on changes within specific areas of knowledge acquisition is most closely associated with...
throw a ball overhand.
Use mental operations in their everyday thinking
The amount of time spent with children is less important than how that time is spent.
Privileged domains.

44. One of the key aspects of Piaget's formal operations involves...
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Deviancy in adolescence.
Risky and potentially harmful.
Disciplinarian

45. Tudge's research on children's everyday activities demonstrated that
controlling conflict within a social group.
Need about 8 hours.
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
It is important for families to create opportunities for children to engage in activities that are relevant to school readiness.

46. According to Marcia - an adolescent who reports high levels of commitment and low levels of exploration is said to be in...
Increases
Foreclosure.
Script.
Socially incompetent - withdrawn and lacked intellectual curiosity.

47. According to Piaget -...
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
People only reach formal operations with extensive schooling.
Sociodramatic play
An infusion of pubertal hormones

48. _____________ text is one of the most basic reading skills.
. Decoding
It is clear that computer use is preferable to TV viewing for children's development.
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
Children of mothers who went to elementary school demonstrated higher reading levels than those children of mothers who did not go to elementary school.

49. Research on parent-adolescent relationships suggests that a great deal of conflict arises because of differences in opinion about the boundaries between which two social domains?
Adolescence is a time of happiness and growth.
Personal and social conventional
Parenting styles and the values parents seek to instill in children vary across cultures.
Children who speak Chinese learn math more quickly than children who speak English.

50. Reciprocal teaching incorporates...
Social intelligence.
Identification.
Both bottom-down and top-down processing.
Stage 4