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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






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






3. 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






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






5. 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






6. 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.






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






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






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






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






11. 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.






12. 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.






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






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






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






16. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






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






19. 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.






20. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group






21. 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.






22. 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






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






24. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






25. 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






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






27. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






28. Those with this disease are often normal weight






29. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem






30. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object






31. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.






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






33. Term for practical intelligence






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






36. 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






37. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes






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






39. 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






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






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






42. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






44. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.






45. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.






46. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects






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






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






49. 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






50. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.