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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






2. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






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






4. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






5. 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






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






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






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






9. 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.






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






11. 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).






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






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






23. Father of attachment theory






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






25. 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






26. 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






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






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






29. 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.






30. The basis for most human learning






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. 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.






33. Those with this disease are often normal weight






34. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






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






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






37. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible






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






39. Term for practical intelligence






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






47. 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






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






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






50. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse