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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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1. 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






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






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






4. Those with this disease are often normal weight






5. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






6. Father of attachment theory






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






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






10. 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).






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






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






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






14. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






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






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






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






19. The basis for most human learning






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






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






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






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






24. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






25. 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






26. 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.






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






28. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






29. Term for practical intelligence






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






31. 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






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






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






34. 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






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






36. 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






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






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






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






40. 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






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






42. 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






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






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






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






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






47. 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.






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






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






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







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