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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
overregularization
semantics
conscientiousness
habituation method
2. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
mental operations
Moro reflex
John Bowlby
5 psychosexual stages
3. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
self-concept differentiation
characteristics of autism
fast mapping
conscientiousness
4. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
neglect
preoperation stage
metacognition
Uri Bronfenbrenner
5. 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
reaction range theory of intelligence
zone of proximal development
superego
exosystem
6. Father of attachment theory
Moro reflex
Rousseau
Susan Carey
John Bowlby
7. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
John Bowlby
sensitive period
Lawrence Kohlberg
imitation
8. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
conscientiousness
animistic reasoning
identity moratorium
social deprivation
9. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
relational aggression
Robert Sternberg
maternal smoking
zone of proximal development
10. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
habituation method
CNS and heart
overregularization
embryo
11. 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
Diana Baumrind
preoperation stage
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
prosocial behavior
12. 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
Lawrence Kohlberg
normative approach
Diana Baumrind
identity moratorium
13. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
functional play
formal operations stage
Diana Baumrind
maternal smoking
14. 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
Lawrence Kohlberg
sandwich generation
intermodal perception
identity moratorium
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
instinctive drift
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
street smarts
affiliation motive
16. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
Locke
sensitive period
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
fast mapping
17. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
characteristics of autism
basic emotions
mean length of utterance
Robert Selman
18. Those with this disease are often normal weight
bulimia
imitation
first spoken word
assimilation
19. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
animistic reasoning
Rousseau
semantics
mental operations
20. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
imitation
conscientiousness
basic emotions
scripts
21. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
Howard Gardner
mean length of utterance
preoperation stage
vision
22. 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
pragmatics
neglect
normative approach
John Bowlby
23. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
animistic reasoning
Lewis Terman
Robert Sternberg
pragmatics
24. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
Rousseau
intermodal perception
Harry Harlow
Noam Chomsky
25. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
5 psychosexual stages
habituation method
social deprivation
street smarts
26. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
neglect
animistic reasoning
social deprivation
identity moratorium
27. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
habituation method
characteristics of autism
scaffolding
Lewis Terman
28. 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
exosystem
assimilation
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
memory
29. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
Uri Bronfenbrenner
assimilation
Harry Harlow
Rousseau
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
Robert Selman
superego
presbyopia
31. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
sandwich generation
vision
embryo
social deprivation
32. The basis for most human learning
exosystem
sandwich generation
imitation
Lev Vygotsky
33. 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
preoperation stage
Lawrence Kohlberg
Howard Gardner
ethology
34. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
identity moratorium
zone of proximal development
triarchic theory of intelligence
Lev Vygotsky
35. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
conscientiousness
characteristics of autism
proximodistal development
intermodal perception
36. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
scripts
presbyopia
Moro reflex
relational aggression
37. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
learning set
functional play
Diana Baumrind
habituation method
38. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
pragmatics
memory
Rousseau
Locke
39. The average number of MORPHEMES
learning set
mean length of utterance
Uri Bronfenbrenner
chorionic villus sampling
40. 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.
exosystem
embryo
Moro reflex
memory
41. 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).
scripts
maternal smoking
exosystem
metacognition
42. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
zone of proximal development
memory
sensitive period
functional play
43. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
mental operations
instrumental aggression
Lewis Terman
instinctive drift
44. 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.
Susan Carey
Robert Selman
street smarts
exosystem
45. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
Rousseau
metacognition
embryo
first spoken word
46. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
CNS and heart
memory
preoperation stage
pragmatics
47. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
maternal smoking
Rousseau
normative approach
Noam Chomsky
48. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
amniocentesis
Howard Gardner
assimilation
concrete operations stage
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
Locke
Lev Vygotsky
imitation
sensorimotor stage
50. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
Albert Bandura
chorionic villus sampling
conscientiousness
characteristics of autism