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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. 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
scaffolding
Lawrence Kohlberg
formal operations stage
proximodistal development
2. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
street smarts
Diana Baumrind
semantics
Rousseau
3. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
12 and 30
animistic reasoning
Lev Vygotsky
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
4. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
bulimia
animistic reasoning
neglect
characteristics of autism
5. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
prosocial behavior
Locke
Lev Vygotsky
exosystem
6. 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.
triarchic theory of intelligence
Noam Chomsky
preoperation stage
overregularization
7. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
ethology
prosocial behavior
bulimia
Lewis Terman
8. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
embryo
learning set
Robert Sternberg
self-concept differentiation
9. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
zone of proximal development
embryo
Diana Baumrind
CNS and heart
10. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
semantics
Harry Harlow
superego
relational aggression
11. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
vision
Lev Vygotsky
concrete operations stage
presbyopia
12. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
social deprivation
preoperation stage
intermodal perception
chorionic villus sampling
13. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
instinctive drift
basic emotions
social deprivation
functional play
14. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
identity moratorium
bulimia
chorionic villus sampling
formal operations stage
15. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
sandwich generation
memory
functional play
presbyopia
16. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
fast mapping
basic emotions
relational aggression
sensorimotor stage
17. 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
Robert Sternberg
Robert Selman
semantics
18. 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
sandwich generation
learning set
proximodistal development
identity moratorium
19. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
sensorimotor stage
relational aggression
prosocial behavior
conscientiousness
20. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
assimilation
sensorimotor stage
preoperation stage
maternal smoking
21. The basis for most human learning
basic emotions
imitation
metacognition
street smarts
22. Father of attachment theory
instinctive drift
John Bowlby
overregularization
street smarts
23. 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
metacognition
prosocial behavior
intermodal perception
preoperation stage
24. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
conscientiousness
metacognition
relational aggression
CNS and heart
25. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
prosocial behavior
presbyopia
Uri Bronfenbrenner
fast mapping
26. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
mean length of utterance
mental operations
amniocentesis
functional play
27. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
habituation method
Lewis Terman
scripts
accommodation
28. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
social deprivation
accommodation
preoperation stage
sensorimotor stage
29. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
social deprivation
formal operations stage
Harry Harlow
scripts
30. The average number of MORPHEMES
mean length of utterance
sensorimotor stage
Uri Bronfenbrenner
scripts
31. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
exosystem
embryo
scaffolding
sensorimotor stage
32. 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).
John Bowlby
relational aggression
Lewis Terman
exosystem
33. 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.
animistic reasoning
Locke
ethology
amniocentesis
34. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
proximodistal development
formal operations stage
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
neglect
35. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
basic emotions
Lawrence Kohlberg
fast mapping
animistic reasoning
36. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
Noam Chomsky
sandwich generation
relational aggression
chorionic villus sampling
37. 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
memory
characteristics of autism
proximodistal development
semantics
38. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
Moro reflex
Susan Carey
5 psychosexual stages
Noam Chomsky
39. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
fast mapping
instinctive drift
sensitive period
neglect
40. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
proximodistal development
scripts
normative approach
Harry Harlow
41. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
Uri Bronfenbrenner
zone of proximal development
sensitive period
exosystem
42. Those with this disease are often normal weight
bulimia
semantics
intermodal perception
metacognition
43. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
assimilation
habituation method
metacognition
mental operations
44. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
Locke
basic emotions
semantics
functional play
45. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
12 and 30
metacognition
Locke
reaction range theory of intelligence
46. 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
reaction range theory of intelligence
Harry Harlow
Howard Gardner
habituation method
47. When more categories are added to one's self-description
superego
neglect
self-concept differentiation
Uri Bronfenbrenner
48. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
Harry Harlow
affiliation motive
metacognition
imitation
49. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
exosystem
relational aggression
concrete operations stage
Lawrence Kohlberg
50. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
sensorimotor stage
Locke
normative approach
Robert Selman