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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. 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






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






4. 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.






5. 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.






6. 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).






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






17. 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.






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






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






20. 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






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






22. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






23. 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






24. 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.






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






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






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






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






29. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. Those with this disease are often normal weight






42. 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






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






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






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






46. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






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






49. 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






50. 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