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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Term for practical intelligence
street smarts
intermodal perception
conscientiousness
Harry Harlow
2. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
accommodation
overregularization
Diana Baumrind
mean length of utterance
3. 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
scaffolding
affiliation motive
amniocentesis
Lawrence Kohlberg
4. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
proximodistal development
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
Lawrence Kohlberg
ethology
5. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
proximodistal development
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
concrete operations stage
Moro reflex
6. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
Howard Gardner
Noam Chomsky
reaction range theory of intelligence
overregularization
7. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
Lawrence Kohlberg
Harry Harlow
Locke
social deprivation
8. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
reaction range theory of intelligence
metacognition
intermodal perception
characteristics of autism
9. 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
exosystem
affiliation motive
superego
Lev Vygotsky
10. 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
Susan Carey
triarchic theory of intelligence
prosocial behavior
identity moratorium
11. 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.
amniocentesis
accommodation
Albert Bandura
memory
12. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
intermodal perception
Lewis Terman
CNS and heart
Locke
13. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
Robert Sternberg
normative approach
street smarts
relational aggression
14. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
bulimia
Moro reflex
Albert Bandura
Rousseau
15. 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
concrete operations stage
Robert Sternberg
sensorimotor stage
ethology
16. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
Uri Bronfenbrenner
sensorimotor stage
identity moratorium
instrumental aggression
17. 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
proximodistal development
Uri Bronfenbrenner
Locke
18. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
sensitive period
conscientiousness
instinctive drift
Locke
19. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
Rousseau
scripts
learning set
ethology
20. 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.
amniocentesis
preoperation stage
instinctive drift
embryo
21. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
Robert Selman
5 psychosexual stages
scripts
accommodation
22. 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.
vision
Susan Carey
memory
Uri Bronfenbrenner
23. 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
exosystem
neglect
accommodation
identity moratorium
24. The basis for most human learning
imitation
social deprivation
animistic reasoning
exosystem
25. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
bulimia
characteristics of autism
conscientiousness
Robert Selman
26. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
Locke
neglect
accommodation
maternal smoking
27. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
reaction range theory of intelligence
Diana Baumrind
Robert Selman
conscientiousness
28. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
pragmatics
preoperation stage
scaffolding
superego
29. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
embryo
learning set
maternal smoking
CNS and heart
30. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
accommodation
12 and 30
pragmatics
scaffolding
31. Father of attachment theory
sensorimotor stage
John Bowlby
affiliation motive
first spoken word
32. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
memory
assimilation
scripts
animistic reasoning
33. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
basic emotions
animistic reasoning
learning set
preoperation stage
34. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
mean length of utterance
Uri Bronfenbrenner
accommodation
reaction range theory of intelligence
35. 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
accommodation
assimilation
Moro reflex
36. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
basic emotions
Moro reflex
12 and 30
semantics
37. 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
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
learning set
normative approach
exosystem
38. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
street smarts
instrumental aggression
functional play
scaffolding
39. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
Lewis Terman
embryo
amniocentesis
5 psychosexual stages
40. 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).
Albert Bandura
exosystem
imitation
Locke
41. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
12 and 30
Uri Bronfenbrenner
accommodation
first spoken word
42. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
characteristics of autism
formal operations stage
5 psychosexual stages
bulimia
43. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
Susan Carey
maternal smoking
pragmatics
Locke
44. The average number of MORPHEMES
metacognition
sensorimotor stage
mean length of utterance
instrumental aggression
45. 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
prosocial behavior
Howard Gardner
normative approach
conscientiousness
46. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
Noam Chomsky
5 psychosexual stages
fast mapping
47. 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.
scaffolding
identity moratorium
zone of proximal development
Howard Gardner
48. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
scripts
Harry Harlow
triarchic theory of intelligence
sandwich generation
49. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
vision
Albert Bandura
sensitive period
amniocentesis
50. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
maternal smoking
Noam Chomsky
street smarts
Lewis Terman