Test your basic knowledge |

CLEP Human Growth And Development

Subjects : clep, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Those with this disease are often normal weight






2. The basis for most human learning






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






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






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






6. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible






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






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






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






10. 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






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






12. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






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






15. 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.






16. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






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






18. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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






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.






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






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






30. 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






31. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






38. 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






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.






40. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






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






43. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






45. 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.






46. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning






47. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






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






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






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