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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






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






3. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital






4. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. Those with this disease are often normal weight






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






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






21. 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.






22. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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






29. 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.






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






31. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






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






41. 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.






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






43. 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.






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. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






46. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






49. 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






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