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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHILD DEVELOPMENT#3
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-Guarantee passing score -87 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: 7. Identify organizational and activational hormonal effects associated with masculinizing female rats.
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Provide testosterone shots to new born baby rats, when it gorws up, it will attempt to mount other female rats Question 2: 5. What does it mean to say that male and female genders are independent dimensions as opposed to mutually exclusive values of a single dimension?
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Can be both highly masculine and highly female. or highly masculine with low feminism Question 3: 106. What might account the relatively high levels of adolescent births and abortions in the US?
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1)Lack of sexual education 2)Lack of contraceptive services 3)Culture that promotes sex
Question 4: 99. Contrast the term "peer pressure" with the course theme that development is a process in which the developing individual plays an active role in the own development.
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Peer pressure: implies a coercive influence that peer relationsips have on the behavior of adolescents Question 5: 90. What is the relationship between experience on formal operations problems and performance on formal operational problems?
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Experience is needed for formal operations to occur Question 6: 93. Explain the evidence on the emergence of formal operational thinking both supports and conflicts with Paiget's ideas about the development of formal operations.
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Genetic part is that your brain has to develop/ mature.Question 7: 89. What are two major weaknesses of the Piagetian tests of formal operational thinking?
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1) only 30-40% of educated western teenagers express formal operations
2) Adolescents and adults in non-technological societies rarely display formal operational thought Question 8: 57. How did Piaget characterize the moral thinking of early children?
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Premoral and governed by hedionistic sel-interest
Question 9: 56. At what stage of development do true friendships first emerge?
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In middle childhood Question 10: 72. What are the characteristics of individuals that influence friendship selection?
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Having the similar sex (gender), interests, abilities and backgrounds
Question 11: 12. Explain how a gender schema might influence the development of gendered behavior.
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Proposes that children have either an innate or acquired schema that directs gender specific development Question 12: 104. How do levels of US adolescent sexual activity compare with levels of adolescent sexual activity in other western industrial nations?
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Similar or lower levels Question 13: 82. How is brain development during early adolescence similar to and different from that of infancy?
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Early adolescent: increase in experience expectant synaptogenesis early. Different by cortical myelination continues through adolescence and into the early 20s
Question 14: 59. Define heteronomous and autonomous moral thinking.
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Heteronomous: considers moral rules as absolute and that obedience should be practiced to avoid the penalty of violation. one either obeys or does not Autonomous: considers moral rules to be relative and obedience as being in service to broader goals??ad Question 15: 1. What two important human interests must be reconciled during social development?
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One's individual interests with ones need to fit into a social group
Question 16: 78. To what does the term puberty refer?
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biological developments that culminate in sexual maturity Question 17: 98. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the social support that adolescents receive from peers?
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Advantage: provide support for irresponsible behavior or idealized but impractical plans Disadvantages: Lack judgement about prudent limitations or the costs of ambitions
Question 18: 69. What form of aggression is more commonly associated with boys than with girls?
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Question 19: 108. How are levels of adolescent peer verses parental orientation associated with deviance?
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Parenting styles 1)Authoritarian 2)Permissive 3)Neglectful parenting
Question 20: 80. What are secondary sexual characteristics?
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(Organizational effects): Enlargement of the genitals, increased muscle mass and deepening of the voice in males, Enlargement of breasts and hips in females, growth of pubic, axially and facial hair.
Question 21: 62. How is dominance attained?
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Achieve their status through competition or aggression with peers over resources -Control the direction of activities, access to toys and valued resources
Question 22: 11. Explain how operant conditioning might gendered behavior?
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Girls are rewarded for playing with dolls and are criticized for playing with males toys. Boys are praised for playing with blocks and trucks, but are criticized for playing with female toys.Thus desired gender behavior is conditioned throughreinforcement Question 23: 3. How is the social role associated with a job different from the technical knowledge or skill necessary to perform a job?
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Like wearing cowboys clothes and playing the role of a cowboy, but not having any of the knowledge to be a cowbou