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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






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






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






4. 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






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






6. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






7. The basis for most human learning






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






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






10. 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






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






12. 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.






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






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 Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this






15. Father of attachment theory






16. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






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






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






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






21. 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






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






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






24. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






34. 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






35. 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.






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






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






38. 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






39. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






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






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






43. 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.






44. 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.






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






46. Term for practical intelligence






47. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem






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






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






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