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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Behavior that benefits someone else or society but that generally offers no obvious benefit to the person performing it; can be taught through positive reinforcement - observational learning - modeling - and assignment of responsibilities designed to
zone of proximal development
prosocial behavior
Howard Gardner
bulimia
2. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
pragmatics
sensorimotor stage
animistic reasoning
prosocial behavior
3. A technique of prenatal diagnosis in which amniotic fluid - obtained by aspiration from a needle inserted into the uterus - is analyzed to detect certain genetic and congenital defects in the fetus.
amniocentesis
vision
superego
Robert Selman
4. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
Rousseau
superego
formal operations stage
Howard Gardner
5. Infant startle response to sudden - intense noise or movement. When startled the newborn arches its back - throws back its head - and flings out its arms and legs.
Moro reflex
mental operations
preoperation stage
Albert Bandura
6. The average number of MORPHEMES
vision
mean length of utterance
John Bowlby
normative approach
7. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
Diana Baumrind
ethology
formal operations stage
12 and 30
8. Second of Piaget's (age 2-7). begin to use words as mental symbols and to form mental images. still limited in their ability to use logic to solve problems. do not yet understand conservation.
preoperation stage
mean length of utterance
relational aggression
normative approach
9. The need to connect with others - which is often intensified if a threat of danger is imminent and people need to come together to support each other
preoperation stage
affiliation motive
Rousseau
normative approach
10. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
12 and 30
reaction range theory of intelligence
social deprivation
concrete operations stage
11. From Lev Vygotsky's theory. the difference between what a child can do with help and what the child can do without any help or guidance.
neglect
zone of proximal development
Harry Harlow
concrete operations stage
12. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
preoperation stage
presbyopia
memory
pragmatics
13. When more categories are added to one's self-description
Robert Sternberg
memory
self-concept differentiation
zone of proximal development
14. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
imitation
5 psychosexual stages
animistic reasoning
John Bowlby
15. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
Robert Selman
conscientiousness
habituation method
embryo
16. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
sensorimotor stage
sensitive period
identity moratorium
assimilation
17. A period of time in the development of identity in which a person delays making a decision about important issues but actively explores various alternatives
identity moratorium
conscientiousness
Robert Sternberg
embryo
18. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
concrete operations stage
intermodal perception
sensorimotor stage
neglect
19. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
Rousseau
semantics
amniocentesis
overregularization
20. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
Robert Sternberg
sensorimotor stage
embryo
maternal smoking
21. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
Susan Carey
bulimia
preoperation stage
neglect
22. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
prosocial behavior
Moro reflex
triarchic theory of intelligence
affiliation motive
23. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
scaffolding
prosocial behavior
sensitive period
assimilation
24. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
basic emotions
Robert Selman
conscientiousness
pragmatics
25. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
embryo
neglect
pragmatics
Uri Bronfenbrenner
26. Father of attachment theory
concrete operations stage
Uri Bronfenbrenner
Diana Baumrind
John Bowlby
27. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
basic emotions
concrete operations stage
Lewis Terman
pragmatics
28. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
Diana Baumrind
concrete operations stage
CNS and heart
functional play
29. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
fast mapping
sensitive period
12 and 30
sensorimotor stage
30. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
instinctive drift
pragmatics
affiliation motive
neglect
31. Hall and Gesel launched this approach in which measures of behavior are taken on large numbers of individuals and age-related averages are computed to represent typical development
normative approach
self-concept differentiation
Moro reflex
chorionic villus sampling
32. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
self-concept differentiation
superego
vision
Locke
33. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
habituation method
Moro reflex
presbyopia
first spoken word
34. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
accommodation
triarchic theory of intelligence
metacognition
neglect
35. Defined the theory of 3 levels of moral development. there are two stages within each level. to achieve advanced moral development - children must be exposed to both sides of moral dilemmas
memory
triarchic theory of intelligence
metacognition
Lawrence Kohlberg
36. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
reaction range theory of intelligence
memory
functional play
chorionic villus sampling
37. In Bronfenbrenner's bioecological approach - settings not experienced directly by individuals still influence their development (for example - effects of events at a parent's workplace on children's development).
Lev Vygotsky
exosystem
memory
Robert Sternberg
38. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
5 psychosexual stages
mental operations
exosystem
bulimia
39. Term for practical intelligence
street smarts
identity moratorium
Lawrence Kohlberg
semantics
40. Harvard researcher that has identified at least eight types of intelligences: linguistic - logical/mathematical - bodily/kinesthetic - musical - spatial (visual) - interpersonal (the ability to understand others) - intrapersonal (the ability to under
Howard Gardner
Locke
neglect
bulimia
41. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
Harry Harlow
habituation method
scaffolding
zone of proximal development
42. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
instinctive drift
vision
Moro reflex
CNS and heart
43. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
presbyopia
sensitive period
zone of proximal development
scripts
44. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
ethology
proximodistal development
John Bowlby
intermodal perception
45. A theory of development that takes its cue in many ways from evolutionary theory - concentrating on traits that are inborn or dependent on 'critical periods' for their eventual emergence
imitation
CNS and heart
chorionic villus sampling
ethology
46. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
exosystem
characteristics of autism
ethology
5 psychosexual stages
47. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
social deprivation
Robert Sternberg
metacognition
Lawrence Kohlberg
48. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
Diana Baumrind
semantics
pragmatics
mental operations
49. Increased exposure to stimuli - enhanced encoding (storing) of information in long-term memory - and increased ease and efficiency in retrieving the stored information will improve this
sandwich generation
CNS and heart
memory
Lewis Terman
50. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
learning set
vision
street smarts
Noam Chomsky