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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Those with this disease are often normal weight
Robert Sternberg
bulimia
Albert Bandura
amniocentesis
2. 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.
embryo
zone of proximal development
triarchic theory of intelligence
Rousseau
3. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
mean length of utterance
Lewis Terman
habituation method
accommodation
4. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
prosocial behavior
habituation method
social deprivation
imitation
5. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
sandwich generation
Robert Sternberg
semantics
scripts
6. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
reaction range theory of intelligence
Lev Vygotsky
12 and 30
functional play
7. 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
relational aggression
instinctive drift
CNS and heart
8. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
embryo
affiliation motive
preoperation stage
social deprivation
9. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
Uri Bronfenbrenner
Susan Carey
Moro reflex
pragmatics
10. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
Albert Bandura
bulimia
conscientiousness
pragmatics
11. 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
prosocial behavior
habituation method
Susan Carey
John Bowlby
12. The average number of MORPHEMES
mean length of utterance
John Bowlby
12 and 30
Rousseau
13. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
instinctive drift
intermodal perception
12 and 30
amniocentesis
14. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
fast mapping
vision
accommodation
intermodal perception
15. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
formal operations stage
semantics
pragmatics
Locke
16. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
semantics
memory
relational aggression
Lev Vygotsky
17. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
self-concept differentiation
Lewis Terman
superego
instinctive drift
18. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
scaffolding
Harry Harlow
sensorimotor stage
19. 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
proximodistal development
mean length of utterance
amniocentesis
Lev Vygotsky
20. 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).
scaffolding
sandwich generation
exosystem
proximodistal development
21. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
metacognition
learning set
ethology
sandwich generation
22. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
metacognition
semantics
bulimia
animistic reasoning
23. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
maternal smoking
habituation method
Lawrence Kohlberg
metacognition
24. 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.
Moro reflex
amniocentesis
overregularization
self-concept differentiation
25. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
mental operations
proximodistal development
exosystem
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
26. 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
social deprivation
reaction range theory of intelligence
presbyopia
Howard Gardner
27. 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.
Uri Bronfenbrenner
John Bowlby
social deprivation
Susan Carey
28. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
zone of proximal development
Robert Sternberg
embryo
metacognition
29. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
neglect
functional play
sensorimotor stage
CNS and heart
30. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
characteristics of autism
Lev Vygotsky
learning set
conscientiousness
31. The basis for most human learning
Lev Vygotsky
ethology
imitation
habituation method
32. 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
affiliation motive
5 psychosexual stages
sensitive period
proximodistal development
33. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
concrete operations stage
overregularization
prosocial behavior
Susan Carey
34. 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
Albert Bandura
vision
John Bowlby
memory
35. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
amniocentesis
triarchic theory of intelligence
Noam Chomsky
imitation
36. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
sandwich generation
identity moratorium
memory
metacognition
37. Term for practical intelligence
proximodistal development
Lev Vygotsky
triarchic theory of intelligence
street smarts
38. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
vision
scaffolding
sensorimotor stage
social deprivation
39. 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.
scaffolding
functional play
Albert Bandura
Noam Chomsky
40. 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
prosocial behavior
normative approach
Howard Gardner
street smarts
41. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
superego
reaction range theory of intelligence
instinctive drift
basic emotions
42. When more categories are added to one's self-description
mental operations
scripts
self-concept differentiation
mean length of utterance
43. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
intermodal perception
12 and 30
first spoken word
Noam Chomsky
44. 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
concrete operations stage
superego
habituation method
scaffolding
45. Father of attachment theory
triarchic theory of intelligence
John Bowlby
metacognition
Howard Gardner
46. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
overregularization
social deprivation
scripts
preoperation stage
47. 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
concrete operations stage
basic emotions
neglect
identity moratorium
48. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
sensitive period
Diana Baumrind
social deprivation
learning set
49. 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.
embryo
amniocentesis
relational aggression
5 psychosexual stages
50. 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.
Noam Chomsky
preoperation stage
formal operations stage
assimilation