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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






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






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.






4. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






6. 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






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






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






13. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






14. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






15. 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).






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






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.






18. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






20. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers






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






22. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.






23. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






24. 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






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






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






27. 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






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






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






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






31. Term for practical intelligence






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






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






34. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






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






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






38. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities






39. 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.






40. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults






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






42. 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






43. 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






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






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






46. 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






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






48. 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






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






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







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