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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Those with this disease are often normal weight
bulimia
preoperation stage
overregularization
Uri Bronfenbrenner
2. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
Howard Gardner
fast mapping
normative approach
scripts
3. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
learning set
CNS and heart
sensorimotor stage
Robert Selman
4. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
Locke
semantics
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
mental operations
5. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
CNS and heart
social deprivation
Robert Selman
Robert Sternberg
6. 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
instinctive drift
normative approach
conscientiousness
mental operations
7. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
assimilation
Noam Chomsky
sandwich generation
sensorimotor stage
8. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
Albert Bandura
characteristics of autism
functional play
Moro reflex
9. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
zone of proximal development
sensitive period
concrete operations stage
presbyopia
10. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
proximodistal development
overregularization
relational aggression
12 and 30
11. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
Lev Vygotsky
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
sensitive period
superego
12. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
chorionic villus sampling
Lewis Terman
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
intermodal perception
13. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
relational aggression
exosystem
concrete operations stage
maternal smoking
14. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
amniocentesis
semantics
intermodal perception
proximodistal development
15. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
relational aggression
semantics
fast mapping
mental operations
16. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
animistic reasoning
intermodal perception
affiliation motive
concrete operations stage
17. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
instinctive drift
mental operations
identity moratorium
Lev Vygotsky
18. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
instinctive drift
first spoken word
proximodistal development
assimilation
19. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
metacognition
reaction range theory of intelligence
vision
instrumental aggression
20. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
vision
Albert Bandura
first spoken word
5 psychosexual stages
21. 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
ethology
Lawrence Kohlberg
assimilation
memory
22. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
presbyopia
exosystem
scripts
Harry Harlow
23. 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
Lawrence Kohlberg
imitation
affiliation motive
characteristics of autism
24. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
formal operations stage
CNS and heart
Albert Bandura
imitation
25. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
scripts
sensorimotor stage
mean length of utterance
memory
26. 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.
Susan Carey
Albert Bandura
Locke
Robert Selman
27. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
12 and 30
Lev Vygotsky
Rousseau
imitation
28. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
zone of proximal development
Uri Bronfenbrenner
Locke
relational aggression
29. Father of attachment theory
12 and 30
assimilation
John Bowlby
Susan Carey
30. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
pragmatics
presbyopia
Robert Sternberg
basic emotions
31. Term for practical intelligence
street smarts
first spoken word
scripts
mean length of utterance
32. 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
zone of proximal development
maternal smoking
ethology
proximodistal development
33. 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
bulimia
prosocial behavior
John Bowlby
functional play
34. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
presbyopia
fast mapping
reaction range theory of intelligence
Robert Sternberg
35. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
5 psychosexual stages
basic emotions
chorionic villus sampling
Noam Chomsky
36. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
social deprivation
John Bowlby
instinctive drift
metacognition
37. 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.
bulimia
prosocial behavior
amniocentesis
reaction range theory of intelligence
38. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
first spoken word
zone of proximal development
semantics
Susan Carey
39. The basis for most human learning
imitation
assimilation
zone of proximal development
overregularization
40. 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
identity moratorium
sandwich generation
preoperation stage
metacognition
41. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
maternal smoking
ethology
reaction range theory of intelligence
pragmatics
42. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
exosystem
assimilation
accommodation
habituation method
43. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
neglect
learning set
animistic reasoning
CNS and heart
44. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
triarchic theory of intelligence
scripts
Robert Selman
concrete operations stage
45. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
prosocial behavior
presbyopia
conscientiousness
reaction range theory of intelligence
46. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
scaffolding
chorionic villus sampling
Lev Vygotsky
mental operations
47. 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).
exosystem
fast mapping
reaction range theory of intelligence
instinctive drift
48. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
intermodal perception
Noam Chomsky
Robert Sternberg
Robert Selman
49. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
Lewis Terman
Susan Carey
overregularization
presbyopia
50. 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
memory
normative approach
Diana Baumrind
instinctive drift