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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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1. 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.






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






3. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






4. 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






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






6. 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.






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






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






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






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






11. Those with this disease are often normal weight






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






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






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






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






16. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






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






19. 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).






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






21. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






23. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






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






25. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






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






27. 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






28. 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






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






30. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital






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






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






33. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. Term for practical intelligence






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






42. 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






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






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






45. 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






46. 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.






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






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






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






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