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 Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this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