SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CLEP Human Growth And Development
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
clep
,
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. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
exosystem
presbyopia
Moro reflex
Noam Chomsky
2. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
functional play
normative approach
neglect
embryo
3. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
Lev Vygotsky
instinctive drift
Robert Sternberg
first spoken word
4. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
habituation method
vision
formal operations stage
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
5. 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
characteristics of autism
identity moratorium
Lawrence Kohlberg
overregularization
6. Those with this disease are often normal weight
functional play
memory
accommodation
bulimia
7. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
first spoken word
triarchic theory of intelligence
assimilation
imitation
8. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
animistic reasoning
overregularization
mean length of utterance
instinctive drift
9. 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
scaffolding
Moro reflex
ethology
first spoken word
10. 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
preoperation stage
functional play
mean length of utterance
memory
11. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
Uri Bronfenbrenner
bulimia
instinctive drift
instrumental aggression
12. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
metacognition
assimilation
superego
mental operations
13. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
presbyopia
Locke
functional play
12 and 30
14. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
instinctive drift
Harry Harlow
formal operations stage
Howard Gardner
15. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
bulimia
instrumental aggression
maternal smoking
animistic reasoning
16. Term for practical intelligence
social deprivation
street smarts
affiliation motive
characteristics of autism
17. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
animistic reasoning
affiliation motive
Albert Bandura
pragmatics
18. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
bulimia
basic emotions
zone of proximal development
chorionic villus sampling
19. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
mental operations
prosocial behavior
Lawrence Kohlberg
intermodal perception
20. 1896-1934; russian developmental psychologist who emphasized the role of the social environment on cognitive development and proposed the idea of zones of proximal development
Locke
overregularization
Susan Carey
Lev Vygotsky
21. Father of attachment theory
5 psychosexual stages
assimilation
ethology
John Bowlby
22. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
sensitive period
basic emotions
fast mapping
identity moratorium
23. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
John Bowlby
Harry Harlow
Diana Baumrind
instinctive drift
24. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
vision
fast mapping
reaction range theory of intelligence
basic emotions
25. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
concrete operations stage
Robert Selman
fast mapping
sandwich generation
26. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
12 and 30
intermodal perception
CNS and heart
formal operations stage
27. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
Diana Baumrind
CNS and heart
conscientiousness
Rousseau
28. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
social deprivation
Robert Selman
Robert Sternberg
presbyopia
29. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
prosocial behavior
sensitive period
fast mapping
chorionic villus sampling
30. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
basic emotions
Lev Vygotsky
fast mapping
Rousseau
31. 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.
zone of proximal development
social deprivation
amniocentesis
overregularization
32. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
Robert Sternberg
embryo
overregularization
bulimia
33. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
functional play
identity moratorium
triarchic theory of intelligence
proximodistal development
34. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
ethology
chorionic villus sampling
mean length of utterance
proximodistal development
35. When more categories are added to one's self-description
chorionic villus sampling
Robert Sternberg
zone of proximal development
self-concept differentiation
36. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
street smarts
animistic reasoning
Lewis Terman
instinctive drift
37. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
Noam Chomsky
neglect
proximodistal development
maternal smoking
38. 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
affiliation motive
proximodistal development
CNS and heart
Susan Carey
39. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
Howard Gardner
John Bowlby
presbyopia
accommodation
40. Social cognitive theorist who proposed that learning takes place in social context: observing and imitating others. also believed people used self-efficacy to overcome fear/trauma.
Albert Bandura
functional play
instinctive drift
relational aggression
41. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
sandwich generation
conscientiousness
reaction range theory of intelligence
superego
42. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
scaffolding
John Bowlby
Uri Bronfenbrenner
sensorimotor stage
43. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
conscientiousness
learning set
characteristics of autism
superego
44. The basis for most human learning
Harry Harlow
Howard Gardner
mean length of utterance
imitation
45. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
zone of proximal development
Rousseau
relational aggression
scaffolding
46. 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
Lawrence Kohlberg
triarchic theory of intelligence
instinctive drift
prosocial behavior
47. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
John Bowlby
functional play
scaffolding
Robert Sternberg
48. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
Robert Sternberg
mean length of utterance
5 psychosexual stages
CNS and heart
49. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
proximodistal development
vision
concrete operations stage
functional play
50. 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.
zone of proximal development
amniocentesis
John Bowlby
concrete operations stage