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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






2. 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






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






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. Term for practical intelligence






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






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






17. 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).






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






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






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






21. 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






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






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






24. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






25. 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.






26. 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






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






28. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






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






30. 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.






31. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






33. 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






34. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






35. 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






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






37. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






38. 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.






39. 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






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






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






42. Those with this disease are often normal weight






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






44. 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






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






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






47. 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






48. Father of attachment theory






49. The average number of MORPHEMES






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







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