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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
Locke
presbyopia
pragmatics
maternal smoking
2. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
proximodistal development
Lewis Terman
functional play
characteristics of autism
3. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
scripts
intermodal perception
sensorimotor stage
instrumental aggression
4. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
mental operations
preoperation stage
pragmatics
Rousseau
5. 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.
Moro reflex
memory
Noam Chomsky
zone of proximal development
6. 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
prosocial behavior
Robert Sternberg
functional play
scaffolding
7. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
semantics
normative approach
pragmatics
relational aggression
8. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
Robert Sternberg
preoperation stage
vision
Diana Baumrind
9. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
mean length of utterance
accommodation
proximodistal development
instinctive drift
10. 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
CNS and heart
street smarts
social deprivation
superego
11. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
affiliation motive
first spoken word
pragmatics
sensorimotor stage
12. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
embryo
preoperation stage
assimilation
relational aggression
13. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
formal operations stage
Robert Sternberg
12 and 30
superego
14. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
vision
instinctive drift
accommodation
Locke
15. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
presbyopia
Lawrence Kohlberg
normative approach
preoperation stage
16. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
pragmatics
habituation method
chorionic villus sampling
semantics
17. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
Uri Bronfenbrenner
characteristics of autism
sandwich generation
maternal smoking
18. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
sensitive period
characteristics of autism
bulimia
relational aggression
19. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
social deprivation
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
scaffolding
characteristics of autism
20. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
5 psychosexual stages
mean length of utterance
instrumental aggression
scaffolding
21. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
exosystem
semantics
scaffolding
Locke
22. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
characteristics of autism
Lev Vygotsky
amniocentesis
conscientiousness
23. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
Robert Selman
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
reaction range theory of intelligence
functional play
24. Those with this disease are often normal weight
bulimia
superego
habituation method
overregularization
25. The basis for most human learning
ethology
imitation
exosystem
semantics
26. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
embryo
Diana Baumrind
Robert Selman
imitation
27. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
Moro reflex
superego
Noam Chomsky
12 and 30
28. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
Rousseau
learning set
overregularization
bulimia
29. 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
functional play
fast mapping
John Bowlby
Howard Gardner
30. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
self-concept differentiation
conscientiousness
scripts
Robert Selman
31. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
embryo
prosocial behavior
Rousseau
learning set
32. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
proximodistal development
ethology
metacognition
scripts
33. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
John Bowlby
affiliation motive
triarchic theory of intelligence
learning set
34. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
embryo
5 psychosexual stages
vision
Robert Sternberg
35. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
formal operations stage
instrumental aggression
chorionic villus sampling
Harry Harlow
36. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
exosystem
John Bowlby
sensitive period
affiliation motive
37. 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
normative approach
preoperation stage
self-concept differentiation
overregularization
38. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
Lev Vygotsky
reaction range theory of intelligence
5 psychosexual stages
scripts
39. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
accommodation
characteristics of autism
social deprivation
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
40. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
street smarts
fast mapping
John Bowlby
Moro reflex
41. When more categories are added to one's self-description
street smarts
sandwich generation
self-concept differentiation
metacognition
42. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
presbyopia
Albert Bandura
basic emotions
memory
43. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
vision
neglect
social deprivation
CNS and heart
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
formal operations stage
Howard Gardner
sandwich generation
ethology
45. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
CNS and heart
intermodal perception
scripts
Locke
46. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
sandwich generation
Noam Chomsky
reaction range theory of intelligence
functional play
47. 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
presbyopia
pragmatics
Lawrence Kohlberg
fast mapping
48. 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
presbyopia
Lev Vygotsky
scaffolding
intermodal perception
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
self-concept differentiation
Susan Carey
assimilation
identity moratorium
50. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
functional play
Susan Carey
metacognition
presbyopia