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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities






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






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 Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this






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






5. 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






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






7. Term for practical intelligence






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






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






10. The basis for most human learning






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






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






13. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them






14. 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.






15. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






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






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






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






20. 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






21. 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.






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






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






24. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






26. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






27. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






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






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






31. 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.






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






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






34. 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






35. 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).






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






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






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






39. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






45. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






46. 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.






47. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning






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






49. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






50. 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