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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
Diana Baumrind
scaffolding
affiliation motive
intermodal perception
2. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
first spoken word
Lewis Terman
imitation
accommodation
3. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
animistic reasoning
memory
Diana Baumrind
embryo
4. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
CNS and heart
Albert Bandura
preoperation stage
accommodation
5. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
learning set
scaffolding
scripts
triarchic theory of intelligence
6. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
intermodal perception
preoperation stage
vision
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
7. 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.
functional play
amniocentesis
learning set
sensorimotor stage
8. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
neglect
ethology
Moro reflex
Harry Harlow
9. 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
Lev Vygotsky
assimilation
habituation method
memory
10. 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
superego
prosocial behavior
Robert Selman
overregularization
11. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
Rousseau
Howard Gardner
Locke
basic emotions
12. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
neglect
functional play
self-concept differentiation
13. When more categories are added to one's self-description
self-concept differentiation
imitation
memory
amniocentesis
14. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
proximodistal development
preoperation stage
zone of proximal development
Robert Selman
15. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
CNS and heart
pragmatics
fast mapping
basic emotions
16. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
metacognition
learning set
instinctive drift
maternal smoking
17. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
instrumental aggression
concrete operations stage
Robert Selman
maternal smoking
18. 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
first spoken word
social deprivation
Rousseau
Howard Gardner
19. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
bulimia
Robert Selman
Noam Chomsky
assimilation
20. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
sandwich generation
embryo
functional play
assimilation
21. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
vision
concrete operations stage
accommodation
Albert Bandura
22. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
bulimia
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
Noam Chomsky
scripts
23. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
self-concept differentiation
presbyopia
functional play
Robert Selman
24. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
bulimia
pragmatics
sensitive period
learning set
25. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
metacognition
learning set
fast mapping
formal operations stage
26. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
Lawrence Kohlberg
12 and 30
mental operations
Harry Harlow
27. 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).
pragmatics
proximodistal development
exosystem
Howard Gardner
28. 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.
identity moratorium
reaction range theory of intelligence
bulimia
Susan Carey
29. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
learning set
first spoken word
memory
pragmatics
30. 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.
Albert Bandura
exosystem
bulimia
Harry Harlow
31. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
animistic reasoning
bulimia
mental operations
scripts
32. 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
street smarts
presbyopia
ethology
affiliation motive
33. 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
superego
Noam Chomsky
animistic reasoning
34. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
learning set
Uri Bronfenbrenner
semantics
Locke
35. 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
street smarts
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
ethology
characteristics of autism
36. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
relational aggression
Howard Gardner
conscientiousness
self-concept differentiation
37. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
proximodistal development
formal operations stage
animistic reasoning
Lawrence Kohlberg
38. 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
prosocial behavior
superego
formal operations stage
Lawrence Kohlberg
39. 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.
zone of proximal development
reaction range theory of intelligence
John Bowlby
street smarts
40. The basis for most human learning
superego
Harry Harlow
imitation
vision
41. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
Robert Selman
formal operations stage
Lev Vygotsky
maternal smoking
42. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
5 psychosexual stages
conscientiousness
Rousseau
Lev Vygotsky
43. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
John Bowlby
maternal smoking
characteristics of autism
zone of proximal development
44. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
chorionic villus sampling
Uri Bronfenbrenner
conscientiousness
relational aggression
45. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
social deprivation
Robert Sternberg
sandwich generation
mental operations
46. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
prosocial behavior
social deprivation
mental operations
relational aggression
47. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
instinctive drift
5 psychosexual stages
Lewis Terman
functional play
48. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
scaffolding
reaction range theory of intelligence
assimilation
superego
49. 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.
sandwich generation
Harry Harlow
amniocentesis
Moro reflex
50. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
triarchic theory of intelligence
5 psychosexual stages
instrumental aggression
intermodal perception