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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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1. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities






2. 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.






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






4. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






5. 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






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






7. 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.






8. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.






9. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






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






12. 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






13. 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






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






15. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion






16. Those with this disease are often normal weight






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






18. 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.






19. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.






20. 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.






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






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






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






24. 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






25. 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






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






27. 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






28. 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






29. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers






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






31. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.






32. Father of attachment theory






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






34. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






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






36. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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).






38. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






44. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






45. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children






46. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes






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






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






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






50. 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