Test your basic knowledge |

CLEP Human Growth And Development

Subjects : clep, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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






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






3. Father of attachment theory






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 Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this






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






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






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






8. 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






9. 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






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






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






12. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






13. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible






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






15. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. 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






24. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






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






26. 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






27. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






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






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






31. 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.






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






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






34. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






35. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. Those with this disease are often normal weight






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






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






47. 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






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






49. 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






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