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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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 Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this






2. 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






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






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






5. Those with this disease are often normal weight






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






7. The basis for most human learning






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






9. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






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






11. 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






12. 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






13. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation






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






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






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






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






21. 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






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






23. 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.






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






25. 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.






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






27. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






28. 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






29. Father of attachment theory






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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.






37. 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).






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






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






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






41. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






42. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






44. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on






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






46. 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






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






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






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






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