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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. The average number of MORPHEMES






11. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






12. 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






13. 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.






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






15. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






17. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






27. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






33. Father of attachment theory






34. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






35. 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






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






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.






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






39. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






41. 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






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






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






44. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion






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






46. 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).






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






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






49. 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






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