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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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1. Term for practical intelligence






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






3. 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






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






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






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






7. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this






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






9. 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






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






11. 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.






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






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






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






15. 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






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






17. 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






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






19. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.






20. Second of Piaget's (age 2-7). begin to use words as mental symbols and to form mental images. still limited in their ability to use logic to solve problems. do not yet understand conservation.






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






22. 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.






23. 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






24. The basis for most human learning






25. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)






26. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






27. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes






28. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






29. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.






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






31. Father of attachment theory






32. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events






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






34. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential






35. 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






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






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






38. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






39. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults






40. 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).






41. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem






42. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.






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






44. The average number of MORPHEMES






45. 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






46. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital






47. 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.






48. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.






49. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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