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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. 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
Harry Harlow
Uri Bronfenbrenner
ethology
Lawrence Kohlberg
2. The basis for most human learning
sensitive period
imitation
preoperation stage
learning set
3. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
sandwich generation
pragmatics
Locke
mean length of utterance
4. 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
Harry Harlow
street smarts
Howard Gardner
fast mapping
5. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
scaffolding
chorionic villus sampling
prosocial behavior
Rousseau
6. 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
metacognition
Locke
ethology
superego
7. 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
Lev Vygotsky
neglect
bulimia
Lawrence Kohlberg
8. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
relational aggression
Harry Harlow
Lawrence Kohlberg
prosocial behavior
9. The average number of MORPHEMES
mean length of utterance
metacognition
CNS and heart
first spoken word
10. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
presbyopia
Lawrence Kohlberg
ethology
assimilation
11. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
exosystem
Uri Bronfenbrenner
assimilation
characteristics of autism
12. 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.
Susan Carey
Diana Baumrind
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
relational aggression
13. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
identity moratorium
Robert Sternberg
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
ethology
14. 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.
ethology
Albert Bandura
zone of proximal development
bulimia
15. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
mental operations
characteristics of autism
prosocial behavior
concrete operations stage
16. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
learning set
scaffolding
mean length of utterance
memory
17. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
triarchic theory of intelligence
basic emotions
chorionic villus sampling
Uri Bronfenbrenner
18. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
Lev Vygotsky
zone of proximal development
embryo
Uri Bronfenbrenner
19. Father of attachment theory
John Bowlby
learning set
sensitive period
prosocial behavior
20. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
zone of proximal development
functional play
Locke
embryo
21. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
assimilation
instrumental aggression
relational aggression
bulimia
22. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
Diana Baumrind
Susan Carey
normative approach
fast mapping
23. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
chorionic villus sampling
instinctive drift
metacognition
superego
24. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
embryo
Lewis Terman
Noam Chomsky
neglect
25. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
intermodal perception
proximodistal development
chorionic villus sampling
memory
26. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
relational aggression
concrete operations stage
identity moratorium
exosystem
27. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
first spoken word
learning set
scripts
characteristics of autism
28. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
instinctive drift
amniocentesis
first spoken word
assimilation
29. 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).
identity moratorium
sandwich generation
exosystem
relational aggression
30. 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
Albert Bandura
amniocentesis
12 and 30
31. Term for practical intelligence
Albert Bandura
overregularization
street smarts
fast mapping
32. 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
ethology
Uri Bronfenbrenner
sensorimotor stage
Diana Baumrind
33. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
sensitive period
animistic reasoning
amniocentesis
sensorimotor stage
34. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
12 and 30
overregularization
triarchic theory of intelligence
sandwich generation
35. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
Harry Harlow
Uri Bronfenbrenner
neglect
bulimia
36. When more categories are added to one's self-description
Diana Baumrind
mean length of utterance
self-concept differentiation
Robert Selman
37. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
affiliation motive
Rousseau
intermodal perception
social deprivation
38. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
sensorimotor stage
social deprivation
metacognition
concrete operations stage
39. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
Lewis Terman
Diana Baumrind
Lev Vygotsky
assimilation
40. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
conscientiousness
habituation method
prosocial behavior
12 and 30
41. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
habituation method
vision
preoperation stage
conscientiousness
42. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
fast mapping
conscientiousness
Robert Sternberg
reaction range theory of intelligence
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
social deprivation
overregularization
habituation method
memory
44. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
concrete operations stage
5 psychosexual stages
sandwich generation
embryo
45. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
scripts
pragmatics
reaction range theory of intelligence
intermodal perception
46. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
proximodistal development
self-concept differentiation
maternal smoking
zone of proximal development
47. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
zone of proximal development
Robert Selman
concrete operations stage
Harry Harlow
48. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
vision
pragmatics
reaction range theory of intelligence
mental operations
49. 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
normative approach
ethology
Diana Baumrind
50. 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.
scripts
Noam Chomsky
self-concept differentiation
Moro reflex