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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. 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.






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






4. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






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






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






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






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






10. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential






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






12. 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






13. 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






14. 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






15. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






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






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






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






20. 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






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






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






23. The basis for most human learning






24. 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).






25. 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.






26. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






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






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






29. Those with this disease are often normal weight






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






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






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






33. 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






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






35. 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






36. 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.






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






38. The average number of MORPHEMES






39. Term for practical intelligence






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






49. Father of attachment theory






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