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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






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






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






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






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






6. 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.






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






8. 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






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






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






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






13. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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






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






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






23. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning






24. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital






25. Term for practical intelligence






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






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






28. 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






29. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






30. Those with this disease are often normal weight






31. 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






32. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






33. 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).






34. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






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






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






37. 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.






38. 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.






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






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






41. 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






42. Father of attachment theory






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






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






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






46. The basis for most human learning






47. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






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






50. 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.