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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






2. 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






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






4. 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.






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






6. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






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






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






10. 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.






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






12. 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






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






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






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






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






17. 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.






18. 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.






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






20. 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






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






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






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 Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this






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






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






26. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






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






29. 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






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






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






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






33. 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






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






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






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






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






38. Term for practical intelligence






39. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






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






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






43. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






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






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






47. 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






48. 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






49. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






50. 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