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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
Rousseau
accommodation
affiliation motive
relational aggression
2. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
metacognition
Lewis Terman
characteristics of autism
overregularization
3. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
Robert Selman
scaffolding
fast mapping
first spoken word
4. Term for practical intelligence
street smarts
basic emotions
neglect
Robert Selman
5. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
neglect
Moro reflex
Susan Carey
Diana Baumrind
6. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
Albert Bandura
bulimia
self-concept differentiation
Uri Bronfenbrenner
7. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
mean length of utterance
reaction range theory of intelligence
conscientiousness
formal operations stage
8. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
pragmatics
Lev Vygotsky
Albert Bandura
instrumental aggression
9. Those with this disease are often normal weight
bulimia
instrumental aggression
identity moratorium
CNS and heart
10. 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
Diana Baumrind
Robert Sternberg
Howard Gardner
semantics
11. The average number of MORPHEMES
5 psychosexual stages
preoperation stage
sensitive period
mean length of utterance
12. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
neglect
imitation
5 psychosexual stages
vision
13. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
mean length of utterance
superego
Harry Harlow
Robert Sternberg
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
12 and 30
Lawrence Kohlberg
assimilation
identity moratorium
15. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
chorionic villus sampling
habituation method
affiliation motive
mental operations
16. 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
mental operations
social deprivation
Locke
17. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
memory
chorionic villus sampling
scripts
5 psychosexual stages
18. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
maternal smoking
Robert Selman
Lawrence Kohlberg
CNS and heart
19. 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
sensitive period
CNS and heart
affiliation motive
identity moratorium
20. 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
prosocial behavior
metacognition
sensitive period
ethology
21. 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
sensorimotor stage
social deprivation
Robert Selman
22. 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
Lev Vygotsky
5 psychosexual stages
embryo
social deprivation
23. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
instrumental aggression
social deprivation
concrete operations stage
maternal smoking
24. 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.
mental operations
preoperation stage
Howard Gardner
embryo
25. 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.
neglect
Moro reflex
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
Uri Bronfenbrenner
26. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
Lev Vygotsky
presbyopia
12 and 30
affiliation motive
27. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
triarchic theory of intelligence
exosystem
fast mapping
Diana Baumrind
28. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
habituation method
12 and 30
semantics
chorionic villus sampling
29. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
self-concept differentiation
zone of proximal development
CNS and heart
assimilation
30. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
animistic reasoning
Locke
Diana Baumrind
sensitive period
31. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
self-concept differentiation
vision
Susan Carey
street smarts
32. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
presbyopia
Lewis Terman
instrumental aggression
learning set
33. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
mental operations
Noam Chomsky
exosystem
preoperation stage
34. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
basic emotions
affiliation motive
mental operations
Locke
35. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
formal operations stage
presbyopia
scaffolding
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
36. Father of attachment theory
sandwich generation
reaction range theory of intelligence
Robert Selman
John Bowlby
37. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
affiliation motive
learning set
social deprivation
John Bowlby
38. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
maternal smoking
functional play
memory
39. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
accommodation
zone of proximal development
identity moratorium
embryo
40. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
12 and 30
Robert Selman
proximodistal development
functional play
41. 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.
Lewis Terman
prosocial behavior
5 psychosexual stages
Albert Bandura
42. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
Moro reflex
vision
normative approach
maternal smoking
43. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
intermodal perception
basic emotions
metacognition
Howard Gardner
44. When more categories are added to one's self-description
self-concept differentiation
mean length of utterance
Susan Carey
prosocial behavior
45. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
maternal smoking
relational aggression
assimilation
Harry Harlow
46. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
Lev Vygotsky
prosocial behavior
sensitive period
instrumental aggression
47. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
sandwich generation
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
semantics
Rousseau
48. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
instinctive drift
bulimia
Harry Harlow
Lewis Terman
49. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
social deprivation
presbyopia
Uri Bronfenbrenner
Diana Baumrind
50. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
animistic reasoning
mental operations
accommodation
social deprivation