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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
Susan Carey
concrete operations stage
12 and 30
bulimia
2. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
Rousseau
presbyopia
exosystem
reaction range theory of intelligence
3. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
presbyopia
functional play
Uri Bronfenbrenner
identity moratorium
4. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
proximodistal development
functional play
Albert Bandura
vision
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.
Robert Selman
CNS and heart
bulimia
Albert Bandura
6. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
imitation
maternal smoking
concrete operations stage
Lawrence Kohlberg
7. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
characteristics of autism
proximodistal development
Locke
8. Those with this disease are often normal weight
relational aggression
fast mapping
normative approach
bulimia
9. 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
superego
scripts
street smarts
10. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
John Bowlby
Rousseau
learning set
proximodistal development
11. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
bulimia
exosystem
maternal smoking
Noam Chomsky
12. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
Lewis Terman
intermodal perception
prosocial behavior
social deprivation
13. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
chorionic villus sampling
Harry Harlow
mental operations
mean length of utterance
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
formal operations stage
bulimia
identity moratorium
affiliation motive
15. 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
zone of proximal development
prosocial behavior
instrumental aggression
16. 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
embryo
prosocial behavior
Locke
mental operations
17. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
Rousseau
Robert Selman
5 psychosexual stages
ethology
18. 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
Lawrence Kohlberg
characteristics of autism
Albert Bandura
neglect
19. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
pragmatics
Rousseau
sensorimotor stage
Howard Gardner
20. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
Robert Sternberg
Rousseau
formal operations stage
reaction range theory of intelligence
21. 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
functional play
Lev Vygotsky
self-concept differentiation
exosystem
22. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
Diana Baumrind
embryo
normative approach
overregularization
23. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
Robert Sternberg
overregularization
vision
first spoken word
24. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
Howard Gardner
memory
embryo
neglect
25. Term for practical intelligence
Lev Vygotsky
scaffolding
street smarts
superego
26. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
scripts
instinctive drift
instrumental aggression
proximodistal development
27. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
instrumental aggression
John Bowlby
scaffolding
normative approach
28. When more categories are added to one's self-description
self-concept differentiation
neglect
instrumental aggression
animistic reasoning
29. 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.
Diana Baumrind
preoperation stage
accommodation
affiliation motive
30. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
pragmatics
imitation
affiliation motive
preoperation stage
31. 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
functional play
chorionic villus sampling
12 and 30
32. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
scripts
chorionic villus sampling
Albert Bandura
Locke
33. The average number of MORPHEMES
exosystem
conscientiousness
mean length of utterance
5 psychosexual stages
34. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
Albert Bandura
amniocentesis
semantics
relational aggression
35. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
bulimia
self-concept differentiation
12 and 30
basic emotions
36. 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
memory
basic emotions
ethology
Howard Gardner
37. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
instrumental aggression
relational aggression
exosystem
Uri Bronfenbrenner
38. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
animistic reasoning
sensorimotor stage
sandwich generation
scripts
39. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
Howard Gardner
animistic reasoning
neglect
sandwich generation
40. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
habituation method
intermodal perception
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
Howard Gardner
41. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
animistic reasoning
formal operations stage
preoperation stage
conscientiousness
42. 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
Lev Vygotsky
Locke
ethology
sensitive period
43. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
concrete operations stage
characteristics of autism
street smarts
intermodal perception
44. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
basic emotions
metacognition
Robert Sternberg
formal operations stage
45. 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.
exosystem
Lawrence Kohlberg
formal operations stage
amniocentesis
46. 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
sandwich generation
fast mapping
affiliation motive
vision
47. 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
functional play
instrumental aggression
amniocentesis
superego
48. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
presbyopia
John Bowlby
animistic reasoning
accommodation
49. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
scripts
identity moratorium
5 psychosexual stages
animistic reasoning
50. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
scripts
sensorimotor stage
memory
assimilation