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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






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






3. 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.






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






5. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






6. 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






7. 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.






8. 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






9. 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






10. 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






11. 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).






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






13. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






14. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






16. 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






17. 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






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






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






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






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






22. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.






23. 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






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






25. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process






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






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






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






29. 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






30. 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.






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






32. 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.






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






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






35. 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.






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






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






38. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






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






41. Father of attachment theory






42. Those with this disease are often normal weight






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






44. The basis for most human learning






45. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






47. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






48. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children






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






50. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply