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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






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






3. Those with this disease are often normal weight






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






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






6. Term for practical intelligence






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






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






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






10. 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






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






12. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






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






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






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






17. 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






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






19. 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






20. 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






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






22. 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






23. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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.






31. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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.






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






39. Father of attachment theory






40. 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






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






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






43. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






44. 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).






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






46. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






47. 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






48. 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.






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






50. 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