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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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1. 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






2. 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






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






4. 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).






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






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






7. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information






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






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






10. 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.






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 Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this






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






13. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






14. 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






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






16. 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






17. Those with this disease are often normal weight






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






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






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






21. 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.






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






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






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






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






26. 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






27. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object






28. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






29. 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.






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






31. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






32. The basis for most human learning






33. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects






34. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital






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






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






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






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






39. 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






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






41. 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.






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






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






44. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






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






47. Father of attachment theory






48. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






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