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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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1. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






2. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






8. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






10. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






12. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. The basis for most human learning






21. 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.






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






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






24. 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.






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






26. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes






27. 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).






28. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






30. Term for practical intelligence






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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






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






41. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects






42. 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






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






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






45. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them






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






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






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






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






50. 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