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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
Robert Sternberg
Uri Bronfenbrenner
learning set
ethology
2. The average number of MORPHEMES
neglect
Lev Vygotsky
12 and 30
mean length of utterance
3. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
sensitive period
characteristics of autism
fast mapping
Robert Selman
4. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
basic emotions
chorionic villus sampling
pragmatics
Diana Baumrind
5. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
metacognition
triarchic theory of intelligence
Lewis Terman
relational aggression
6. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
vision
Robert Sternberg
amniocentesis
self-concept differentiation
7. 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
memory
neglect
Howard Gardner
Lev Vygotsky
8. Term for practical intelligence
self-concept differentiation
street smarts
intermodal perception
embryo
9. Those with this disease are often normal weight
Lev Vygotsky
Albert Bandura
relational aggression
bulimia
10. 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.
preoperation stage
Albert Bandura
John Bowlby
5 psychosexual stages
11. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
5 psychosexual stages
Diana Baumrind
mental operations
Rousseau
12. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
animistic reasoning
sensitive period
scripts
relational aggression
13. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
vision
Harry Harlow
intermodal perception
Robert Sternberg
14. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
semantics
intermodal perception
imitation
Moro reflex
15. 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.
Locke
fast mapping
amniocentesis
affiliation motive
16. 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.
habituation method
zone of proximal development
Rousseau
self-concept differentiation
17. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
Rousseau
instinctive drift
proximodistal development
Uri Bronfenbrenner
18. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
CNS and heart
5 psychosexual stages
bulimia
ethology
19. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
pragmatics
Uri Bronfenbrenner
conscientiousness
mental operations
20. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
Robert Selman
instinctive drift
first spoken word
maternal smoking
21. When more categories are added to one's self-description
chorionic villus sampling
semantics
learning set
self-concept differentiation
22. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
first spoken word
embryo
Susan Carey
pragmatics
23. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
scripts
amniocentesis
semantics
formal operations stage
24. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
Lewis Terman
semantics
scripts
assimilation
25. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
animistic reasoning
Moro reflex
Robert Sternberg
instinctive drift
26. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
normative approach
Lev Vygotsky
neglect
chorionic villus sampling
27. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
Lev Vygotsky
CNS and heart
sensorimotor stage
5 psychosexual stages
28. 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.
prosocial behavior
Moro reflex
Robert Sternberg
intermodal perception
29. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
imitation
scripts
5 psychosexual stages
Uri Bronfenbrenner
30. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
zone of proximal development
scaffolding
Robert Sternberg
presbyopia
31. 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
relational aggression
Howard Gardner
Lev Vygotsky
Lewis Terman
32. 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.
Uri Bronfenbrenner
proximodistal development
Susan Carey
Moro reflex
33. 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
superego
triarchic theory of intelligence
embryo
sensitive period
34. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
Rousseau
sandwich generation
social deprivation
scaffolding
35. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
intermodal perception
neglect
formal operations stage
Moro reflex
36. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
fast mapping
memory
ethology
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
37. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
conscientiousness
identity moratorium
basic emotions
scaffolding
38. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
sensorimotor stage
presbyopia
reaction range theory of intelligence
street smarts
39. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
formal operations stage
maternal smoking
instinctive drift
12 and 30
40. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
instrumental aggression
preoperation stage
Locke
scripts
41. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
basic emotions
Robert Selman
Albert Bandura
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
42. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
reaction range theory of intelligence
vision
learning set
Moro reflex
43. 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
scripts
12 and 30
normative approach
Susan Carey
44. The basis for most human learning
imitation
CNS and heart
concrete operations stage
Albert Bandura
45. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
preoperation stage
pragmatics
self-concept differentiation
neglect
46. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
identity moratorium
instrumental aggression
Howard Gardner
social deprivation
47. 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
affiliation motive
reaction range theory of intelligence
ethology
mean length of utterance
48. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
bulimia
habituation method
exosystem
proximodistal development
49. 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
chorionic villus sampling
affiliation motive
memory
identity moratorium
50. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
mental operations
Lewis Terman
sensitive period
instrumental aggression