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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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1. 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






2. Father of attachment theory






3. 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






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






5. 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






6. 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.






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






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






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






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






11. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






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






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






14. 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






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






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






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






18. 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






19. 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.






20. 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).






21. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. Term for practical intelligence






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






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






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






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






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






36. Those with this disease are often normal weight






37. 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






38. 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






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






40. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






41. 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






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






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






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






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






48. The average number of MORPHEMES






49. 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.






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