Final Exam Flashcards

1
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Child growth and development consists of _______, _______, and _______, growth.

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Physical, social, emotional

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What segment of lifespan development does child development focus on?

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Child development focuses from conception to adolescence: 0 - 20 years old

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Dividing the years from birth to adulthood into into time periods is a _______.

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Social construction

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4
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Prenatal period is the time between conception and birth, typically ___ weeks

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38

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5
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According to Freud’s _______ theory, child development occurs in a series of stages focused on different pleasure areas of the body

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Psychosexual

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Age:
Infanthood (___ - ___)
Toddler (___-___)
Early Childhood (___-___)
Middle Childhood (___-___)
Comprise Childhood (___-___)
Adolescence (___-___)

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Age:
Birth - 1
1 - 5
3 - 8
9 - 11
3 - 11
12 - 18+

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7
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What is the difference between nature and nurture?

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Nature: physical and genetic factors affect a child’s development

Nurture: environmental factors affect a child’s development

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8
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What are some of the limitations/flaws of Piaget’s theory?

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Overestimating adolescent aptitude (natural abilities)

Underestimating newborn potential

Disregards environmental factors on child development

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9
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What are the three independent components of personality in Freud’s Structural Paradigm?

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Id - instinctive sexual aggressions (unconscious)
Ego - mediating between id and superego (conscious)
Superego - morals and conscience (preconscious)

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10
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What are the stages of Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychosexual development?

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Oral: mouth - sucking, swallowing, etc.
Anal: anus - potty training
Phallic: sexual organ - masturbation
Latent: N/A - social
Genital: sexual organ - sexual intercourse

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What are Erik Erikson’s stages of Psychosocial Development?

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Trust v. Mistrust: birth - 18 months: hope
Autonomy v. Shame and Doubt: 18 months - 3 years: will
Initiative v. Guilt: 3 - 5 years: purpose
Industry v. Inferiority: 5 - 13 years: competency
Identity v. Confusion: 13 - 21 years: fidelity
Intimacy v. Isolation: 21 - 39 years: love
Generativity v. Stagnation: 40 - 65 years: care
Integrity v. Despair: 65+ years: wisdom

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12
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What does Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory say?

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Learning is contingent (dependent) upon culture and varies amongst cultures. Vygotsky signifies that educators take into account the effect of cultures on the learning environment.

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13
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Dominant/recessive interactions are the most frequent type of allele-allele interaction. When one dominant allele crosses with a recessive allele, what is the allele of the offspring?

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Dominant

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14
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What are the three stages of prenatal development?

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Germinal: 0 - 2 weeks
Embryonic: 3 - 8 weeks
Fetal: 9 weeks - birth

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15
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The growth of your child is influenced by your child’s genes as well as other elements including a _______, _______, _______, and _______. Your child receives the nutrition and energy from healthy meals that they require to grow and thrive.

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balanced diet, regular exercise, health, neighborhood

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16
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The desire to master _______, _______, and _______ and _______ abilities in newborns and toddlers persists as they get older.

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movement, balance, fine and gross motor

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17
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_______, _______, _______, _______, _______, and _______ are all aspects of cognition. Our cognitive abilities assist us in organizing our information and applying it to new situations.

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Language, creativity, thought, reasoning, problem-solving, memory

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18
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Social and Emotional development

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A child’s ability to establish and maintain deep connections with both adults and other children is referred to as social development. The ability of a kid to express, identify, and manage his or her emotions as well as react appropriately to those of others is known as emotional development.

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19
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What are the 7 stages of human body growth?

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Infant development
Toddler development
Preschooler development
Middle Childhood development
Adolescent development
Adult Development

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20
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8 Early Stages of Brain Development

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Neurulation
Proliferation
Cell migration
Differentiation
Synaptogenesis
Synapse pruning
Myelination
Summary

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21
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What is gross motor and fine motor development?

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Gross: involves larger body muscle movement
Fine: involves smaller body muscle movement

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22
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_______, _______, and _______ can encourage brain growth whereas _______ and _______ exposure can have long-term harmful effects on a child’s brain. An important public health objective is to guarantee that parents, caregivers, and early childhood care providers have the tools and abilities to offer _______, _______, _______, and _______.

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Talking, reading, playing…stress, trauma…secure, stable, caring, stimulating care

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23
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According to Piaget’s theory, children advance through the phases of cognitive development through maturation, methods of discovery, and some social transmissions through _______ and _______.

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Assimilation, accomodation

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24
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An approach to cognitive development studies called ______________ theory seeks to explain how information is stored in memory.

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Information processing

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25
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As adults, it is difficult to conceive of life without a sense of “_______.”

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self

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26
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Morality refers to standards that guide people’s judgments about what is _______ and _______, and about _______. It involves _______, _______, _______, and it is fundamental and important in our relationships with others.

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right, wrong, justice,…cognition, affect, behavior

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27
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What is the importance of forming a secure attachment in infancy?

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To develop a foundation for healthy parent-child relationships and social emotional adjustment. Style of parenting – responsive parenting – that can foster children’s secure attachment.

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28
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Are the changes of the brain during the middle years more dramatic than changes in the early years?

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No

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29
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Why does body growth occur slowly during middle childhood ages?

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It gives children time to adjust to their bodies and learn to use them more effectively.

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30
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Children of age 2-6/7 are considered _______ because they lack cognitive _______-actions that are carried out and reversed mentally

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preoperational, operations

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31
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Emphasis on deeper, more enduring qualities over surface appearances

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concrete operations

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32
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The understanding that quantities such as numbers, weight, volume, or area stay the same even when appearances are altered

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conservation

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33
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According to Piaget, the ability to solve conservation problems depends on an understanding of three basic aspects of reasoning.

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identity, compensation, and reversibility

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34
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If nothing is added or taken away, an item stays the same

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identity

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35
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An apparent change in one direction can be compensated for by a change in a another direction

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compensation

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36
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A child can mentally cancel out the change that has been made

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reversibility

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37
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A child’s ability to focus on a single characteristic of objects in a set and group the objects according to the characteristic

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classification

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38
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The process of making orderly arrangements from large to small or vice versa

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seriation

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39
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The area between a child’s current development level and the level of development that a child could achieve with support from others

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zone of proximal development (ZPD)

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40
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Designed to promote learning, but is not a traditional lecture or discussion

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instructional conservation

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41
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The understandings and skills developed over generations that families need to function

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funds of knowledge

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42
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Attention disorders and impulsive-hyperactivity disorders

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attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

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43
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The work space of the memory system where new information is combined with existing knowledge

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working memory

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44
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Where well-learned knowledge is stored more permanently

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long-term memory

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45
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We have to search intentionally to retrieve _______

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explicit memory

46
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Memory that requires no thinking or effort

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implicit memory

47
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knowledge (____), specific events (____)

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semantic, episodic

48
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Verbal sound information

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phonological loop

49
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Visual/spatial information

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visual sketchpad

50
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Where phonological loops, visual/spatial information, and long-term memory are integrated together to create mental representations

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episodic buffer

51
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“worker” that oversees processing

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central executive

52
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One’s knowledge and beliefs about one’s own cognitive processes

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metacognition

53
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Explicit, conscious, and factual knowledge about one’s cognitive abilities and the skills, strategies, and resources needed to perform a task

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declarative metacognition

54
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Knowing how to use the strategies, focus attention, and generally enact the plans one makes: implicit and unconscious

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procedural metacognition

55
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Knowing when and why to apply procedures and strategies

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conditional or self-regulatory metacognition

56
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Tht two international assessment programs are called:

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The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), and Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)

57
Q

There is math superiority in the Asian countries of _______, _______, _______, _______, and _______.

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Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Chinese Taipei, and Japan

58
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The _______(NCLB) act required all students in grades 3 through 8 and also once in high school should take standardized achievement tests in reading, mathematics, and science

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No Child Left Behind

59
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AYP stands for _______

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Adequate yearly progress

60
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Parents who are reassuring and supportive of their children’s autonomy will help their children handle the _______, _______, and _______ that are bound to come with schooling.

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frustrations, delays, tensions

61
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Families from lower SES families show higher average levels of achievement on test scores and stay in school longer than children from higher SES families.

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False

62
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The three categories of classroom climate that are related to the development and learning of preschool and elementary school students are:

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affective, behavioral, and cognitive dimensions

63
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A composite of the beliefs and attitudes we have about ourselves

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self-concept

64
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As children develop, they start to distinguish between their _______ and _______ selves

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ideal and real

65
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The self-evaluative part of the self-concept and that self-evaluations often are based on feedback from others, including parents, teachers, and peers

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self-esteem

66
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The minority children show greater awareness of race and ethnicity than children who identify with the majority group

A

True

67
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Having high academic self-esteem is associated with success in school as well as a willingness to attempt challenging tasks

A

True

68
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_______ involves effortful, voluntary control of emotions, attention, and behavior

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emotional self-regulation

69
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_______________ is when children believe they are in control of their emotional experiences

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emotional self-efficacy

70
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The ability to imagine what other people are thinking and feeling, develops gradually as children become less egocentric and more able to recognize and coordinate multiple dimensions of interpersonal experiences

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perspective taking

71
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What are Selman’s 5 stages of Perspective Taking?

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Stage 0: Egocentric Viewpoint (3-6)
Stage 1: Social-Informational Role Taking (6-8)
Stage 2: Self-Reflective Role Taking (8-10)
Stage 3: Mutual Role Taking (10-12)
Stage 4: Social and Conventional System Role Taking (12-15+)

72
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Judgments about the rightness or wrongness of certain acts

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moral reasoning

73
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Equality, Merit, and Benevolence

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distributive justice

74
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Children 5-6 believe that rules are absolute and cannot be changed because they were given by authorities

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moral realism

75
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At age 8, children understand that people can agree to change rules if they want to. They also start to realize that you don’t get punished unless you get caught

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moral relativism

76
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Judgment based solely on a person’s needs and perceptions

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preconventional

77
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Expectations of informal and formal groups, society, and law are taken into account

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conventional

78
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Judgments are based on more generalizable universal principles that are personally held and not necessarily based on society’s laws

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postconventional

79
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Hypothetical situations that ask people to make difficult decisions and justify them

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moral dilemmas

80
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Voluntary behavior intended to benefit other people: it usually involves low self-sacrifice or is strongly encouraged by adults

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prosocial behavior

81
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When adults use ______________, they give children reasons why their behavior is wrong

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inductive discipline

82
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Behavior intended to to hurt others or to damage property

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aggressive behavior

83
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Places where members care about and support each other, actively participate in and have influence on the group’s activities and decisions, feel a sense of belonging and identification in the group, and have common norms, goals, values

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learning communities

84
Q

_______ in the frontal lobe continue to be _______ during adolescence

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Axons, myelinated

85
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By the end of adolescence, brains and neurological changes help individuals to avoid risky behaviors, be more purposeful and organized, and inhibit impulsive behavior

A

True

86
Q

The dramatic physical growth and development during puberty requires increases in _______, _______, _______, and _______.

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energy, protein, vitamins, and minerals

87
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Foods to increase

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half fruits, vegetables
half whole grains
fat-free or low fat milk

88
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Foods to decrease

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sodium
sugary drinks

89
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Lunch is the most important meal of the day; adolescents who skip lunch are more likely to become obese

A

False; breakfast

90
Q

What is the recommended amount of calcium to intake a day?

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1,300 mg

91
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By 18, __% of the bone mass is developed

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90

92
Q

Teenagers need about how many hours of sleep a day?

A

9

93
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How many minutes is the recommended time of exercise

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60 minutes/ 1 hour

94
Q

Ways of speaking that fit certain social situations

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registers

95
Q

The minimal and informal language of overusing words such as “like” and “ya’know,” “OK,” and “whatever”

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mallspeak

96
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Young leader focus more on the goals of the _______.

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group

97
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Teaching where English should be introduced as early as possible

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transition approach

98
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Teaching which improves native language in order to gradually develop in English

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native-language maintenance instruction

99
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Moves from the general assumption to the specific

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deductive reasoning

100
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Moves from specific instances to a general conclusion

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inductive reasoning

101
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Consideration of hypothetical situations to reason deductively

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hypothetical deductive reasoning

102
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To help students understand and think deeply about what they read

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reciprocal teaching

103
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Switch back and forth from one task to another, but focuses on only one at a time

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sequential multitasking

104
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Overlapping in focus on several tasks at a time

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simultaneous multitasking

105
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Adolescent self-concept is usually contingent upon social settings and are more complex and differentiated than in earlier childhood

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True

106
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Adolescent self-esteem is associated with positive outcomes, and positive self-regard is generally thought to protect oneself against negative outcomes

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True

107
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Adolescents have lesser extremes and less changes in mood than either preadolescents or adults

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False

108
Q

Which part of the brain is associated with risk-taking?

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cerbellum

109
Q

In parenting adolescents, parent should balance in granting _______ and maintaining _______

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autonomy, control

110
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Tensions between most parents and adolescents are not serious enough to cause a dramatic deterioration in their relationships

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True