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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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1. 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






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






3. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






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






6. 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






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






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






9. 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).






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






11. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






12. The basis for most human learning






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






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






15. 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






16. 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.






17. 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.






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






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






20. Term for practical intelligence






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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






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






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






31. 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.






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






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






34. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






35. 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






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






37. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






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






39. Father of attachment theory






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






41. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






43. 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






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






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






46. 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






47. Those with this disease are often normal weight






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






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






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