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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.






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






3. Those with this disease are often normal weight






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






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






10. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. 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






18. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






19. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






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






22. 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






23. Term for practical intelligence






24. Father of attachment theory






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






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






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






28. The basis for most human learning






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






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






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






32. 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






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






34. 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






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






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






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






38. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






39. 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.






40. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement






41. 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






42. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






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






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






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






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






47. 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






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






49. 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






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