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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
habituation method
chorionic villus sampling
formal operations stage
self-concept differentiation
2. 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
social deprivation
superego
pragmatics
Howard Gardner
3. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
first spoken word
mental operations
habituation method
Albert Bandura
4. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
Albert Bandura
first spoken word
learning set
superego
5. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
chorionic villus sampling
Robert Sternberg
characteristics of autism
embryo
6. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
Susan Carey
maternal smoking
scripts
instrumental aggression
7. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
Rousseau
relational aggression
Diana Baumrind
chorionic villus sampling
8. 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
Rousseau
John Bowlby
street smarts
9. The basis for most human learning
imitation
Rousseau
street smarts
social deprivation
10. 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
instinctive drift
learning set
chorionic villus sampling
11. When more categories are added to one's self-description
self-concept differentiation
Lawrence Kohlberg
Susan Carey
fast mapping
12. 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.
Susan Carey
maternal smoking
mean length of utterance
fast mapping
13. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
metacognition
Noam Chomsky
Moro reflex
intermodal perception
14. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
triarchic theory of intelligence
Robert Selman
Robert Sternberg
ethology
15. 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
superego
reaction range theory of intelligence
memory
scaffolding
16. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
social deprivation
reaction range theory of intelligence
Locke
superego
17. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
learning set
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
normative approach
proximodistal development
18. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
presbyopia
formal operations stage
mean length of utterance
vision
19. 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.
Harry Harlow
affiliation motive
amniocentesis
animistic reasoning
20. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
Rousseau
semantics
vision
learning set
21. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
bulimia
Diana Baumrind
presbyopia
chorionic villus sampling
22. 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
sensorimotor stage
prosocial behavior
basic emotions
Lawrence Kohlberg
23. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
mean length of utterance
metacognition
Robert Sternberg
overregularization
24. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
metacognition
Lev Vygotsky
Lewis Terman
Howard Gardner
25. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
maternal smoking
triarchic theory of intelligence
semantics
scripts
26. 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
pragmatics
ethology
formal operations stage
self-concept differentiation
27. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
Lev Vygotsky
amniocentesis
relational aggression
Susan Carey
28. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
self-concept differentiation
maternal smoking
Rousseau
basic emotions
29. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
first spoken word
sensitive period
Locke
sandwich generation
30. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
characteristics of autism
normative approach
assimilation
sensitive period
31. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
animistic reasoning
scripts
John Bowlby
sensitive period
32. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
fast mapping
functional play
self-concept differentiation
Albert Bandura
33. Those with this disease are often normal weight
neglect
John Bowlby
imitation
bulimia
34. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
zone of proximal development
sensitive period
Lewis Terman
functional play
35. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
Lawrence Kohlberg
street smarts
presbyopia
scaffolding
36. 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.
Rousseau
bulimia
Moro reflex
imitation
37. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
Moro reflex
zone of proximal development
basic emotions
bulimia
38. 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.
learning set
Albert Bandura
zone of proximal development
overregularization
39. 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
Howard Gardner
Harry Harlow
5 psychosexual stages
embryo
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).
5 psychosexual stages
maternal smoking
exosystem
sensitive period
41. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
semantics
basic emotions
Locke
Albert Bandura
42. 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
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
triarchic theory of intelligence
John Bowlby
43. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
chorionic villus sampling
proximodistal development
12 and 30
Noam Chomsky
44. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
triarchic theory of intelligence
overregularization
instinctive drift
Robert Selman
45. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
street smarts
preoperation stage
fast mapping
mental operations
46. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
reaction range theory of intelligence
ethology
formal operations stage
Uri Bronfenbrenner
47. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
intermodal perception
Robert Sternberg
conscientiousness
Robert Selman
48. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
CNS and heart
5 psychosexual stages
characteristics of autism
overregularization
49. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
Uri Bronfenbrenner
self-concept differentiation
concrete operations stage
accommodation
50. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
John Bowlby
relational aggression
maternal smoking
conscientiousness