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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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1. Term for practical intelligence






2. 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






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






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






5. 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).






6. 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






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






8. 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






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






10. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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






21. Father of attachment theory






22. 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.






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






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






25. 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






26. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






28. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception






29. Those with this disease are often normal weight






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






31. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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.






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






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






35. The basis for most human learning






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






37. 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






38. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






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






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






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






43. 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.






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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