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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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1. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation






2. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness






3. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)






4. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem






5. 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






6. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this






7. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.






8. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process






9. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.






10. 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






11. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.






12. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement






13. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning






14. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level






15. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on






16. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital






17. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.






18. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects






19. When more categories are added to one's self-description






20. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply






21. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes






22. 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).






23. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy






24. Term for practical intelligence






25. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end






26. 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.






27. Those with this disease are often normal weight






28. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults






29. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object






30. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception






31. 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






32. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






33. 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.






34. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group






35. 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






36. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure






37. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.






38. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.






39. The average number of MORPHEMES






40. Father of attachment theory






41. Freud's third aspect of our personality to develop - involved an overriding moral guidepost - transmitted to the child in great part through adult authority figures






42. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward






43. Introduced the concept of fast mapping. calculated that children between the ages of 1.5 and 6 learn an average of nine new words per day.






44. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events






45. 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






46. 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.






47. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them






48. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system






49. 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






50. 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