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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
Rousseau
affiliation motive
animistic reasoning
concrete operations stage
2. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
social deprivation
sensitive period
Locke
intermodal perception
3. 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.
preoperation stage
maternal smoking
embryo
Moro reflex
4. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
maternal smoking
habituation method
neglect
first spoken word
5. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
animistic reasoning
presbyopia
ethology
mental operations
6. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
chorionic villus sampling
Robert Sternberg
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
mental operations
7. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
presbyopia
sensorimotor stage
scripts
street smarts
8. 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.
sensitive period
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
mental operations
Moro reflex
9. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
neglect
prosocial behavior
CNS and heart
semantics
10. Those with this disease are often normal weight
characteristics of autism
bulimia
normative approach
amniocentesis
11. 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
Lawrence Kohlberg
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
learning set
chorionic villus sampling
12. Term for practical intelligence
Rousseau
street smarts
first spoken word
basic emotions
13. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
presbyopia
proximodistal development
self-concept differentiation
instinctive drift
14. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
fast mapping
Lewis Terman
embryo
instinctive drift
15. Father of attachment theory
prosocial behavior
John Bowlby
sensitive period
Locke
16. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
sensorimotor stage
presbyopia
5 psychosexual stages
overregularization
17. 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.
mean length of utterance
ethology
Noam Chomsky
Susan Carey
18. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
zone of proximal development
sensitive period
semantics
metacognition
19. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
learning set
Susan Carey
self-concept differentiation
neglect
20. 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
prosocial behavior
bulimia
superego
relational aggression
21. The average number of MORPHEMES
scripts
self-concept differentiation
mean length of utterance
overregularization
22. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
self-concept differentiation
mental operations
Susan Carey
habituation method
23. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
concrete operations stage
sensorimotor stage
neglect
vision
24. 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).
Susan Carey
sensorimotor stage
exosystem
amniocentesis
25. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
Harry Harlow
habituation method
Robert Sternberg
mean length of utterance
26. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
maternal smoking
Moro reflex
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
memory
27. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
zone of proximal development
memory
exosystem
Locke
28. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
Moro reflex
Diana Baumrind
Locke
scaffolding
29. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
animistic reasoning
5 psychosexual stages
Diana Baumrind
scaffolding
30. The basis for most human learning
imitation
Robert Sternberg
concrete operations stage
prosocial behavior
31. 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
Robert Sternberg
Lev Vygotsky
prosocial behavior
scaffolding
32. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
conscientiousness
relational aggression
5 psychosexual stages
chorionic villus sampling
33. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
first spoken word
Susan Carey
12 and 30
fast mapping
34. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
Harry Harlow
embryo
formal operations stage
mean length of utterance
35. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
functional play
characteristics of autism
first spoken word
Uri Bronfenbrenner
36. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
amniocentesis
chorionic villus sampling
learning set
assimilation
37. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
functional play
Lewis Terman
Robert Selman
first spoken word
38. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
sensitive period
Noam Chomsky
mental operations
basic emotions
39. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
instinctive drift
maternal smoking
functional play
affiliation motive
40. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
intermodal perception
sensitive period
John Bowlby
superego
41. 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
learning set
sandwich generation
Lawrence Kohlberg
Howard Gardner
42. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
instinctive drift
semantics
Moro reflex
basic emotions
43. 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
reaction range theory of intelligence
memory
mean length of utterance
Locke
44. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
Locke
mental operations
Robert Selman
metacognition
45. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
Howard Gardner
presbyopia
imitation
zone of proximal development
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.
amniocentesis
Harry Harlow
Locke
exosystem
47. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
chorionic villus sampling
basic emotions
scaffolding
bulimia
48. 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.
Albert Bandura
Robert Sternberg
preoperation stage
Noam Chomsky
49. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
embryo
proximodistal development
functional play
fast mapping
50. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
proximodistal development
accommodation
vision
metacognition