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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. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






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






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






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






6. 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






7. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






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






10. 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






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






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






13. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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






20. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






21. 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






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 Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this






23. 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






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






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






26. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






28. Those with this disease are often normal weight






29. Term for practical intelligence






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






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






32. The basis for most human learning






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






34. 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






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






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






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






38. 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.






39. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. 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






46. Father of attachment theory






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






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






49. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation






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