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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
overregularization
Susan Carey
conscientiousness
5 psychosexual stages
2. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
triarchic theory of intelligence
instinctive drift
scripts
3. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
embryo
metacognition
Locke
CNS and heart
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
metacognition
accommodation
pragmatics
memory
5. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
overregularization
Howard Gardner
scripts
Robert Selman
6. 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
prosocial behavior
characteristics of autism
chorionic villus sampling
Lawrence Kohlberg
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.
habituation method
Robert Selman
animistic reasoning
Susan Carey
8. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
memory
Diana Baumrind
sandwich generation
CNS and heart
9. 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
scripts
fast mapping
Lev Vygotsky
intermodal perception
10. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
relational aggression
identity moratorium
habituation method
Moro reflex
11. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
mental operations
instinctive drift
animistic reasoning
Lewis Terman
12. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
mental operations
vision
relational aggression
intermodal perception
13. 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.
presbyopia
ethology
mental operations
Albert Bandura
14. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
identity moratorium
learning set
Harry Harlow
functional play
15. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
Noam Chomsky
basic emotions
assimilation
16. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
formal operations stage
sensorimotor stage
sandwich generation
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
17. 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.
first spoken word
zone of proximal development
fast mapping
normative approach
18. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
concrete operations stage
formal operations stage
street smarts
Lawrence Kohlberg
19. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
maternal smoking
bulimia
social deprivation
animistic reasoning
20. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
presbyopia
bulimia
amniocentesis
CNS and heart
21. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
characteristics of autism
fast mapping
12 and 30
maternal smoking
22. Term for practical intelligence
Lev Vygotsky
pragmatics
overregularization
street smarts
23. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
semantics
scripts
formal operations stage
social deprivation
24. 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
normative approach
scripts
Howard Gardner
self-concept differentiation
25. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
relational aggression
scripts
instinctive drift
Lawrence Kohlberg
26. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
overregularization
12 and 30
scripts
John Bowlby
27. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
basic emotions
5 psychosexual stages
habituation method
characteristics of autism
28. 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).
exosystem
pragmatics
vision
superego
29. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
assimilation
social deprivation
Robert Sternberg
Diana Baumrind
30. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
reaction range theory of intelligence
Lawrence Kohlberg
scaffolding
conscientiousness
31. Father of attachment theory
memory
Locke
pragmatics
John Bowlby
32. 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
ethology
self-concept differentiation
superego
street smarts
33. 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
reaction range theory of intelligence
formal operations stage
Diana Baumrind
affiliation motive
34. 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
metacognition
Howard Gardner
prosocial behavior
Diana Baumrind
35. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
maternal smoking
vision
accommodation
proximodistal development
36. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
superego
animistic reasoning
preoperation stage
concrete operations stage
37. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
presbyopia
preoperation stage
chorionic villus sampling
scripts
38. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
fast mapping
Lewis Terman
Robert Selman
Diana Baumrind
39. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
pragmatics
instrumental aggression
5 psychosexual stages
mental operations
40. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
social deprivation
Noam Chomsky
intermodal perception
mental operations
41. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
proximodistal development
Uri Bronfenbrenner
conscientiousness
characteristics of autism
42. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
first spoken word
street smarts
5 psychosexual stages
prosocial behavior
43. Those with this disease are often normal weight
pragmatics
bulimia
Diana Baumrind
Lev Vygotsky
44. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
accommodation
preoperation stage
Rousseau
neglect
45. 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
street smarts
normative approach
learning set
triarchic theory of intelligence
46. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
Lev Vygotsky
intermodal perception
superego
social deprivation
47. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
Diana Baumrind
embryo
relational aggression
street smarts
48. 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
imitation
identity moratorium
mental operations
sensorimotor stage
49. When more categories are added to one's self-description
proximodistal development
sensorimotor stage
scaffolding
self-concept differentiation
50. The average number of MORPHEMES
affiliation motive
Diana Baumrind
conscientiousness
mean length of utterance