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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






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






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






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






5. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






6. 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.






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






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






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






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






12. The basis for most human learning






13. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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.






23. Father of attachment theory






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






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






26. 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






27. 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.






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






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






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






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






32. 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






33. 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.






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






35. 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.






36. 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






37. 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






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






39. 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.






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






41. Those with this disease are often normal weight






42. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






43. 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






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






45. 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






46. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






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






49. 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).






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