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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






2. 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.






3. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






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






6. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






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






9. 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






10. 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






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






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






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






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






15. Those with this disease are often normal weight






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






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






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






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






20. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






31. 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.






32. 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






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






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






35. 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






36. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Term for practical intelligence






44. Father of attachment theory






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






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






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






48. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






49. 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






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