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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






2. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






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






4. Father of attachment theory






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






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






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






8. 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).






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






10. 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.






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






12. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






14. 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






15. Those with this disease are often normal weight






16. 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






17. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






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






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






21. The basis for most human learning






22. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception






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






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. 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






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






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






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






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 Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this






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






31. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






32. 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






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






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






35. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






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






38. 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






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






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






41. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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