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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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1. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






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






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






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.






6. 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).






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






8. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






9. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information






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






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






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






13. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






15. 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






16. Term for practical intelligence






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






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






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






20. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion






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






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






23. 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.






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






25. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






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






28. 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






29. 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






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






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






32. 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






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






34. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible






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






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






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






38. 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






39. 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.






40. Father of attachment theory






41. 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.






42. 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






43. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential






44. 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






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






46. Those with this disease are often normal weight






47. The basis for most human learning






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






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






50. 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