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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. 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.
Lawrence Kohlberg
zone of proximal development
habituation method
metacognition
2. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
proximodistal development
accommodation
vision
street smarts
3. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
12 and 30
bulimia
intermodal perception
Rousseau
4. 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
self-concept differentiation
identity moratorium
ethology
preoperation stage
5. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
conscientiousness
Locke
bulimia
Lawrence Kohlberg
6. 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.
neglect
Susan Carey
sensorimotor stage
accommodation
7. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
learning set
fast mapping
Harry Harlow
accommodation
8. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
habituation method
scripts
amniocentesis
pragmatics
9. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
scripts
chorionic villus sampling
conscientiousness
Albert Bandura
10. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
sensorimotor stage
Lev Vygotsky
animistic reasoning
12 and 30
11. Those with this disease are often normal weight
mental operations
instinctive drift
zone of proximal development
bulimia
12. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
chorionic villus sampling
sensitive period
exosystem
maternal smoking
13. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
instinctive drift
mental operations
chorionic villus sampling
scaffolding
14. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
habituation method
amniocentesis
Noam Chomsky
instrumental aggression
15. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
normative approach
triarchic theory of intelligence
characteristics of autism
pragmatics
16. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
first spoken word
normative approach
Diana Baumrind
Moro reflex
17. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
fast mapping
formal operations stage
affiliation motive
amniocentesis
18. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
Robert Sternberg
mean length of utterance
Noam Chomsky
concrete operations stage
19. 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).
pragmatics
exosystem
affiliation motive
Howard Gardner
20. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
Locke
fast mapping
Diana Baumrind
Albert Bandura
21. The average number of MORPHEMES
self-concept differentiation
Rousseau
semantics
mean length of utterance
22. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
characteristics of autism
proximodistal development
ethology
intermodal perception
23. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
street smarts
pragmatics
Uri Bronfenbrenner
normative approach
24. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
concrete operations stage
ethology
Moro reflex
neglect
25. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
mental operations
amniocentesis
Lawrence Kohlberg
instrumental aggression
26. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
Diana Baumrind
amniocentesis
social deprivation
identity moratorium
27. 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
superego
intermodal perception
chorionic villus sampling
exosystem
28. 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
Locke
affiliation motive
5 psychosexual stages
Uri Bronfenbrenner
29. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
proximodistal development
zone of proximal development
basic emotions
Moro reflex
30. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
basic emotions
5 psychosexual stages
Howard Gardner
bulimia
31. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
presbyopia
Locke
Lawrence Kohlberg
accommodation
32. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
intermodal perception
Howard Gardner
embryo
functional play
33. 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
sensorimotor stage
first spoken word
reaction range theory of intelligence
normative approach
34. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
exosystem
sensitive period
fast mapping
preoperation stage
35. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
Uri Bronfenbrenner
learning set
maternal smoking
first spoken word
36. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
embryo
proximodistal development
intermodal perception
prosocial behavior
37. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
fast mapping
Moro reflex
sandwich generation
learning set
38. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
embryo
concrete operations stage
assimilation
CNS and heart
39. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
first spoken word
intermodal perception
proximodistal development
animistic reasoning
40. Term for practical intelligence
accommodation
ethology
Lewis Terman
street smarts
41. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
semantics
scaffolding
amniocentesis
mean length of utterance
42. 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
superego
zone of proximal development
mean length of utterance
memory
43. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
superego
sandwich generation
instinctive drift
mental operations
44. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
self-concept differentiation
habituation method
embryo
reaction range theory of intelligence
45. 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
affiliation motive
ethology
intermodal perception
street smarts
46. 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.
sensorimotor stage
amniocentesis
mental operations
scripts
47. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
Rousseau
Lawrence Kohlberg
Noam Chomsky
characteristics of autism
48. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
overregularization
Uri Bronfenbrenner
Lawrence Kohlberg
neglect
49. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
chorionic villus sampling
instinctive drift
pragmatics
Rousseau
50. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
maternal smoking
instinctive drift
functional play
mean length of utterance