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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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1. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






2. 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.






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






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






5. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






6. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






8. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






14. 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






15. 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






16. Term for practical intelligence






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






18. 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






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






20. 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






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






22. 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.






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






24. 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.






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






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






27. 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






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






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






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






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






32. 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






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






34. 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.






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






36. 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






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






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






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






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






41. 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






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






43. Those with this disease are often normal weight






44. Father of attachment theory






45. 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






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






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






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






49. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






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