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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
Noam Chomsky
Howard Gardner
Harry Harlow
Robert Selman
2. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
concrete operations stage
memory
Howard Gardner
fast mapping
3. 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
street smarts
CNS and heart
normative approach
12 and 30
4. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
Uri Bronfenbrenner
preoperation stage
semantics
neglect
5. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
sensorimotor stage
exosystem
instrumental aggression
self-concept differentiation
6. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
conscientiousness
Rousseau
ethology
John Bowlby
7. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
Lewis Terman
Moro reflex
pragmatics
Robert Selman
8. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
pragmatics
semantics
scaffolding
exosystem
9. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
5 psychosexual stages
instrumental aggression
sensitive period
basic emotions
10. 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
identity moratorium
ethology
Harry Harlow
Rousseau
11. The basis for most human learning
triarchic theory of intelligence
imitation
sensitive period
scaffolding
12. 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.
embryo
amniocentesis
concrete operations stage
accommodation
13. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
neglect
first spoken word
Moro reflex
sensitive period
14. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
habituation method
chorionic villus sampling
mental operations
semantics
15. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
formal operations stage
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
concrete operations stage
Locke
16. 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
CNS and heart
superego
Howard Gardner
scripts
17. 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
5 psychosexual stages
accommodation
superego
street smarts
18. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
Robert Selman
normative approach
Diana Baumrind
fast mapping
19. 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.
instinctive drift
Lev Vygotsky
Moro reflex
functional play
20. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
pragmatics
Uri Bronfenbrenner
instinctive drift
Albert Bandura
21. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
triarchic theory of intelligence
sensorimotor stage
presbyopia
imitation
22. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
learning set
assimilation
John Bowlby
vision
23. 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.
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
zone of proximal development
fast mapping
Susan Carey
24. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
triarchic theory of intelligence
basic emotions
imitation
Robert Selman
25. 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.
semantics
5 psychosexual stages
preoperation stage
bulimia
26. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
exosystem
zone of proximal development
mean length of utterance
Noam Chomsky
27. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
scripts
conscientiousness
Susan Carey
embryo
28. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
vision
5 psychosexual stages
12 and 30
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
29. Term for practical intelligence
Albert Bandura
Robert Sternberg
sandwich generation
street smarts
30. 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
affiliation motive
12 and 30
habituation method
exosystem
31. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
zone of proximal development
superego
sandwich generation
sensitive period
32. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
scripts
chorionic villus sampling
learning set
presbyopia
33. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
characteristics of autism
intermodal perception
John Bowlby
conscientiousness
34. 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
scaffolding
prosocial behavior
zone of proximal development
first spoken word
35. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
pragmatics
basic emotions
bulimia
normative approach
36. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
relational aggression
identity moratorium
bulimia
conscientiousness
37. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
Harry Harlow
Uri Bronfenbrenner
Locke
intermodal perception
38. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
Howard Gardner
accommodation
Rousseau
5 psychosexual stages
39. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
overregularization
instinctive drift
relational aggression
instrumental aggression
40. 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
sensorimotor stage
Albert Bandura
identity moratorium
pragmatics
41. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
sensitive period
functional play
Robert Sternberg
reaction range theory of intelligence
42. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
Rousseau
street smarts
semantics
first spoken word
43. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
accommodation
metacognition
reaction range theory of intelligence
neglect
44. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
maternal smoking
habituation method
animistic reasoning
concrete operations stage
45. The average number of MORPHEMES
pragmatics
mean length of utterance
Diana Baumrind
relational aggression
46. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
social deprivation
Diana Baumrind
formal operations stage
Howard Gardner
47. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
normative approach
characteristics of autism
neglect
accommodation
48. Father of attachment theory
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
5 psychosexual stages
John Bowlby
normative approach
49. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
mean length of utterance
pragmatics
characteristics of autism
relational aggression
50. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
identity moratorium
12 and 30
Moro reflex
social deprivation