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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
chorionic villus sampling
animistic reasoning
Howard Gardner
assimilation
2. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
zone of proximal development
semantics
concrete operations stage
formal operations stage
3. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
superego
conscientiousness
affiliation motive
5 psychosexual stages
4. 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
superego
proximodistal development
self-concept differentiation
metacognition
5. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
sandwich generation
scaffolding
Rousseau
Uri Bronfenbrenner
6. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
metacognition
relational aggression
chorionic villus sampling
overregularization
7. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
John Bowlby
sensorimotor stage
scaffolding
semantics
8. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
maternal smoking
Robert Selman
affiliation motive
preoperation stage
9. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
metacognition
characteristics of autism
habituation method
Lev Vygotsky
10. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
scripts
animistic reasoning
street smarts
intermodal perception
11. Those with this disease are often normal weight
characteristics of autism
identity moratorium
bulimia
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
12. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
functional play
sensitive period
basic emotions
conscientiousness
13. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
Diana Baumrind
assimilation
normative approach
Harry Harlow
14. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
ethology
intermodal perception
accommodation
conscientiousness
15. 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
sandwich generation
sensorimotor stage
normative approach
16. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
Robert Selman
learning set
social deprivation
assimilation
17. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
mental operations
presbyopia
metacognition
habituation method
18. The average number of MORPHEMES
proximodistal development
mean length of utterance
sensorimotor stage
Robert Sternberg
19. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
sandwich generation
intermodal perception
maternal smoking
first spoken word
20. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
accommodation
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
Rousseau
mental operations
21. 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.
accommodation
overregularization
zone of proximal development
animistic reasoning
22. 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
5 psychosexual stages
ethology
characteristics of autism
23. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
chorionic villus sampling
CNS and heart
reaction range theory of intelligence
social deprivation
24. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
bulimia
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
instinctive drift
Albert Bandura
25. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
exosystem
memory
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
Diana Baumrind
26. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
formal operations stage
normative approach
first spoken word
fast mapping
27. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
Lev Vygotsky
imitation
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
fast mapping
28. 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
characteristics of autism
Lawrence Kohlberg
assimilation
prosocial behavior
29. 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.
vision
zone of proximal development
self-concept differentiation
Susan Carey
30. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
Noam Chomsky
assimilation
Robert Selman
chorionic villus sampling
31. 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
12 and 30
pragmatics
Lawrence Kohlberg
superego
32. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
Locke
fast mapping
basic emotions
functional play
33. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
Locke
assimilation
Uri Bronfenbrenner
concrete operations stage
34. When more categories are added to one's self-description
self-concept differentiation
neglect
imitation
characteristics of autism
35. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
Harry Harlow
Uri Bronfenbrenner
overregularization
intermodal perception
36. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
Albert Bandura
chorionic villus sampling
exosystem
relational aggression
37. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
habituation method
John Bowlby
semantics
5 psychosexual stages
38. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
Diana Baumrind
12 and 30
identity moratorium
amniocentesis
39. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
concrete operations stage
chorionic villus sampling
scripts
triarchic theory of intelligence
40. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
vision
instinctive drift
semantics
embryo
41. 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.
reaction range theory of intelligence
amniocentesis
metacognition
Albert Bandura
42. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
accommodation
mean length of utterance
relational aggression
proximodistal development
43. 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.
Rousseau
social deprivation
Noam Chomsky
Moro reflex
44. 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).
Rousseau
exosystem
street smarts
identity moratorium
45. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
instrumental aggression
first spoken word
assimilation
Susan Carey
46. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
proximodistal development
Susan Carey
vision
Albert Bandura
47. 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
self-concept differentiation
ethology
overregularization
learning set
48. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
mean length of utterance
assimilation
identity moratorium
neglect
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
conscientiousness
Lev Vygotsky
accommodation
Noam Chomsky
50. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
Harry Harlow
Rousseau
Lewis Terman
proximodistal development