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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
amniocentesis
street smarts
overregularization
instinctive drift
2. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
accommodation
Harry Harlow
semantics
social deprivation
3. 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
chorionic villus sampling
Lawrence Kohlberg
CNS and heart
scaffolding
4. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
Moro reflex
scaffolding
Harry Harlow
Howard Gardner
5. 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
Robert Sternberg
sensorimotor stage
prosocial behavior
presbyopia
6. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
assimilation
social deprivation
accommodation
intermodal perception
7. 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.
Robert Selman
Moro reflex
amniocentesis
normative approach
8. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
CNS and heart
Noam Chomsky
chorionic villus sampling
scaffolding
9. Term for practical intelligence
John Bowlby
street smarts
accommodation
basic emotions
10. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
normative approach
Lewis Terman
mental operations
Lev Vygotsky
11. Those with this disease are often normal weight
Uri Bronfenbrenner
bulimia
reaction range theory of intelligence
metacognition
12. 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.
superego
zone of proximal development
instrumental aggression
Harry Harlow
13. 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
ethology
identity moratorium
exosystem
Howard Gardner
14. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
animistic reasoning
habituation method
chorionic villus sampling
Robert Sternberg
15. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
Lev Vygotsky
Uri Bronfenbrenner
12 and 30
formal operations stage
16. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
instrumental aggression
Harry Harlow
mental operations
intermodal perception
17. 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).
sensorimotor stage
exosystem
conscientiousness
mental operations
18. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
affiliation motive
characteristics of autism
embryo
mental operations
19. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
Rousseau
assimilation
metacognition
fast mapping
20. 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.
relational aggression
Susan Carey
social deprivation
sensitive period
21. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
relational aggression
preoperation stage
memory
pragmatics
22. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
instinctive drift
learning set
relational aggression
semantics
23. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
first spoken word
memory
conscientiousness
habituation method
24. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
Lewis Terman
Lev Vygotsky
neglect
concrete operations stage
25. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
memory
first spoken word
Lawrence Kohlberg
Robert Selman
26. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
accommodation
semantics
street smarts
animistic reasoning
27. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
animistic reasoning
instrumental aggression
chorionic villus sampling
triarchic theory of intelligence
28. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
triarchic theory of intelligence
vision
instrumental aggression
sandwich generation
29. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
reaction range theory of intelligence
Lawrence Kohlberg
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
basic emotions
30. 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
Lev Vygotsky
identity moratorium
memory
fast mapping
31. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
reaction range theory of intelligence
scaffolding
social deprivation
functional play
32. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
5 psychosexual stages
functional play
basic emotions
superego
33. 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
Robert Sternberg
Noam Chomsky
superego
first spoken word
34. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
intermodal perception
animistic reasoning
bulimia
vision
35. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
Noam Chomsky
CNS and heart
bulimia
mean length of utterance
36. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
identity moratorium
5 psychosexual stages
overregularization
intermodal perception
37. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
first spoken word
Albert Bandura
Rousseau
Locke
38. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
presbyopia
self-concept differentiation
street smarts
sensitive period
39. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
Lev Vygotsky
Lawrence Kohlberg
formal operations stage
Noam Chomsky
40. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
Susan Carey
triarchic theory of intelligence
assimilation
ethology
41. Father of attachment theory
imitation
instinctive drift
John Bowlby
Moro reflex
42. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
normative approach
prosocial behavior
Rousseau
proximodistal development
43. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
Robert Sternberg
Susan Carey
conscientiousness
metacognition
44. 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
identity moratorium
chorionic villus sampling
semantics
sensorimotor stage
45. When more categories are added to one's self-description
CNS and heart
scaffolding
concrete operations stage
self-concept differentiation
46. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
John Bowlby
animistic reasoning
exosystem
semantics
47. 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.
Albert Bandura
Lewis Terman
amniocentesis
mental operations
48. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
presbyopia
Rousseau
social deprivation
Susan Carey
49. 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.
social deprivation
Robert Sternberg
accommodation
Moro reflex
50. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
Uri Bronfenbrenner
formal operations stage
vision
Lawrence Kohlberg