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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
habituation method
Albert Bandura
superego
scaffolding
2. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
Lewis Terman
instinctive drift
vision
metacognition
3. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
intermodal perception
social deprivation
Robert Sternberg
presbyopia
4. 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
amniocentesis
superego
exosystem
identity moratorium
5. 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
Diana Baumrind
sensorimotor stage
relational aggression
memory
6. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
instrumental aggression
intermodal perception
chorionic villus sampling
identity moratorium
7. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
prosocial behavior
triarchic theory of intelligence
Uri Bronfenbrenner
imitation
8. 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
proximodistal development
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
semantics
Howard Gardner
9. The basis for most human learning
Lewis Terman
imitation
maternal smoking
Rousseau
10. 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.
Susan Carey
Lewis Terman
preoperation stage
fast mapping
11. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
animistic reasoning
ethology
metacognition
superego
12. 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.
Moro reflex
reaction range theory of intelligence
Diana Baumrind
characteristics of autism
13. 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
normative approach
identity moratorium
Howard Gardner
semantics
14. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
Susan Carey
memory
functional play
reaction range theory of intelligence
15. 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).
mean length of utterance
self-concept differentiation
exosystem
presbyopia
16. 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.
amniocentesis
accommodation
Robert Selman
5 psychosexual stages
17. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
Locke
scaffolding
semantics
Lewis Terman
18. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
scripts
maternal smoking
Harry Harlow
embryo
19. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
first spoken word
triarchic theory of intelligence
reaction range theory of intelligence
assimilation
20. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
sandwich generation
Susan Carey
intermodal perception
concrete operations stage
21. When more categories are added to one's self-description
Lev Vygotsky
John Bowlby
self-concept differentiation
semantics
22. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
street smarts
Albert Bandura
overregularization
amniocentesis
23. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
Susan Carey
5 psychosexual stages
characteristics of autism
maternal smoking
24. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
sandwich generation
proximodistal development
Rousseau
instinctive drift
25. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
ethology
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
triarchic theory of intelligence
Robert Sternberg
26. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
Rousseau
Lawrence Kohlberg
mental operations
chorionic villus sampling
27. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
sensorimotor stage
preoperation stage
Locke
Robert Selman
28. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
Lewis Terman
Rousseau
zone of proximal development
Uri Bronfenbrenner
29. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
characteristics of autism
instrumental aggression
Robert Sternberg
pragmatics
30. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
Lawrence Kohlberg
conscientiousness
Albert Bandura
Lewis Terman
31. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
scripts
overregularization
Albert Bandura
neglect
32. 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
Howard Gardner
ethology
amniocentesis
Noam Chomsky
33. 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
affiliation motive
Lawrence Kohlberg
mental operations
reaction range theory of intelligence
34. 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
instinctive drift
sensitive period
identity moratorium
Rousseau
35. 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.
learning set
preoperation stage
Lev Vygotsky
instinctive drift
36. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
Lev Vygotsky
basic emotions
metacognition
scripts
37. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
Harry Harlow
instinctive drift
sensorimotor stage
fast mapping
38. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
habituation method
reaction range theory of intelligence
bulimia
Uri Bronfenbrenner
39. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
functional play
Diana Baumrind
social deprivation
metacognition
40. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
Lev Vygotsky
street smarts
fast mapping
habituation method
41. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
assimilation
neglect
Locke
mean length of utterance
42. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
habituation method
triarchic theory of intelligence
Lev Vygotsky
CNS and heart
43. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
CNS and heart
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
accommodation
mean length of utterance
44. 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
prosocial behavior
formal operations stage
functional play
memory
45. Father of attachment theory
John Bowlby
assimilation
memory
Harry Harlow
46. 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.
zone of proximal development
Robert Selman
Lawrence Kohlberg
sensitive period
47. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
instrumental aggression
concrete operations stage
neglect
Noam Chomsky
48. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
12 and 30
Rousseau
Harry Harlow
Albert Bandura
49. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
identity moratorium
fast mapping
learning set
Howard Gardner
50. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
triarchic theory of intelligence
Lewis Terman
Howard Gardner
reaction range theory of intelligence