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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Father of attachment theory
instinctive drift
identity moratorium
John Bowlby
Lev Vygotsky
2. 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
sensorimotor stage
12 and 30
intermodal perception
Lev Vygotsky
3. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
bulimia
overregularization
normative approach
Howard Gardner
4. 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).
formal operations stage
Robert Sternberg
exosystem
learning set
5. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
overregularization
5 psychosexual stages
social deprivation
normative approach
6. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
characteristics of autism
scaffolding
CNS and heart
ethology
7. 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.
street smarts
Lev Vygotsky
Susan Carey
self-concept differentiation
8. Those with this disease are often normal weight
social deprivation
bulimia
5 psychosexual stages
superego
9. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
Moro reflex
Noam Chomsky
formal operations stage
relational aggression
10. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
zone of proximal development
Uri Bronfenbrenner
bulimia
learning set
11. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
Lawrence Kohlberg
instinctive drift
street smarts
mean length of utterance
12. The basis for most human learning
intermodal perception
identity moratorium
sensitive period
imitation
13. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
animistic reasoning
12 and 30
characteristics of autism
identity moratorium
14. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
sensorimotor stage
chorionic villus sampling
vision
Uri Bronfenbrenner
15. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
chorionic villus sampling
Susan Carey
maternal smoking
scaffolding
16. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
fast mapping
preoperation stage
Uri Bronfenbrenner
mean length of utterance
17. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
semantics
normative approach
mental operations
Lawrence Kohlberg
18. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
amniocentesis
concrete operations stage
scripts
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
19. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
formal operations stage
John Bowlby
first spoken word
12 and 30
20. Term for practical intelligence
superego
Howard Gardner
street smarts
embryo
21. 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
preoperation stage
mean length of utterance
street smarts
affiliation motive
22. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
learning set
Howard Gardner
Lev Vygotsky
functional play
23. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
social deprivation
overregularization
concrete operations stage
assimilation
24. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
instrumental aggression
fast mapping
characteristics of autism
imitation
25. 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
exosystem
identity moratorium
Uri Bronfenbrenner
characteristics of autism
26. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
Lev Vygotsky
Harry Harlow
instrumental aggression
basic emotions
27. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
superego
chorionic villus sampling
Albert Bandura
basic emotions
28. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
sandwich generation
Howard Gardner
affiliation motive
pragmatics
29. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
concrete operations stage
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
maternal smoking
first spoken word
30. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
amniocentesis
fast mapping
Lewis Terman
maternal smoking
31. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
Lev Vygotsky
habituation method
superego
scaffolding
32. 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.
Moro reflex
zone of proximal development
reaction range theory of intelligence
first spoken word
33. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
self-concept differentiation
instinctive drift
John Bowlby
presbyopia
34. When more categories are added to one's self-description
imitation
self-concept differentiation
social deprivation
functional play
35. 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
Lev Vygotsky
5 psychosexual stages
prosocial behavior
animistic reasoning
36. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
accommodation
triarchic theory of intelligence
Robert Sternberg
Howard Gardner
37. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
instinctive drift
Robert Selman
mean length of utterance
mental operations
38. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
identity moratorium
Robert Sternberg
imitation
instrumental aggression
39. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
accommodation
bulimia
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
Noam Chomsky
40. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
Rousseau
conscientiousness
concrete operations stage
overregularization
41. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
conscientiousness
intermodal perception
Lev Vygotsky
presbyopia
42. 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.
amniocentesis
John Bowlby
instinctive drift
sensitive period
43. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
learning set
Albert Bandura
reaction range theory of intelligence
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
44. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
basic emotions
first spoken word
neglect
sandwich generation
45. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
neglect
Locke
imitation
social deprivation
46. 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
self-concept differentiation
presbyopia
normative approach
sandwich generation
47. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
sensitive period
instinctive drift
mean length of utterance
affiliation motive
48. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
12 and 30
conscientiousness
neglect
ethology
49. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
presbyopia
fast mapping
learning set
scaffolding
50. 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
ethology
Lawrence Kohlberg
instrumental aggression
characteristics of autism