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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
Howard Gardner
maternal smoking
instinctive drift
12 and 30
2. Those with this disease are often normal weight
bulimia
preoperation stage
12 and 30
self-concept differentiation
3. 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.
characteristics of autism
John Bowlby
Susan Carey
12 and 30
4. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
superego
ethology
sensitive period
intermodal perception
5. Term for practical intelligence
12 and 30
preoperation stage
Howard Gardner
street smarts
6. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
instrumental aggression
overregularization
mental operations
chorionic villus sampling
7. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
5 psychosexual stages
imitation
maternal smoking
instrumental aggression
8. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
Robert Selman
reaction range theory of intelligence
chorionic villus sampling
intermodal perception
9. The average number of MORPHEMES
mean length of utterance
Susan Carey
affiliation motive
Lev Vygotsky
10. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
chorionic villus sampling
concrete operations stage
relational aggression
mental operations
11. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
first spoken word
assimilation
instrumental aggression
relational aggression
12. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
Uri Bronfenbrenner
identity moratorium
bulimia
affiliation motive
13. 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.
5 psychosexual stages
Albert Bandura
assimilation
embryo
14. 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
normative approach
Albert Bandura
15. 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.
Uri Bronfenbrenner
functional play
zone of proximal development
Lewis Terman
16. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
instrumental aggression
Noam Chomsky
first spoken word
Robert Selman
17. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
proximodistal development
ethology
Albert Bandura
superego
18. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
Lewis Terman
animistic reasoning
instrumental aggression
characteristics of autism
19. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
bulimia
Robert Sternberg
zone of proximal development
normative approach
20. The basis for most human learning
Moro reflex
imitation
exosystem
sensitive period
21. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
Albert Bandura
embryo
social deprivation
street smarts
22. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
formal operations stage
sensitive period
Noam Chomsky
animistic reasoning
23. Father of attachment theory
social deprivation
ethology
John Bowlby
embryo
24. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
sensorimotor stage
Moro reflex
sandwich generation
Susan Carey
25. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
Howard Gardner
formal operations stage
Moro reflex
Lawrence Kohlberg
26. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
functional play
scaffolding
preoperation stage
John Bowlby
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
functional play
Rousseau
Susan Carey
scripts
28. 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
Susan Carey
identity moratorium
superego
fast mapping
29. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
conscientiousness
proximodistal development
Robert Sternberg
instrumental aggression
30. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
animistic reasoning
triarchic theory of intelligence
scripts
presbyopia
31. 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.
normative approach
animistic reasoning
Albert Bandura
Moro reflex
32. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
animistic reasoning
relational aggression
proximodistal development
instinctive drift
33. 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
conscientiousness
pragmatics
vision
Howard Gardner
34. 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
Lev Vygotsky
fast mapping
conscientiousness
maternal smoking
35. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
exosystem
Lewis Terman
scaffolding
basic emotions
36. 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
sensorimotor stage
scripts
identity moratorium
ethology
37. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
sandwich generation
reaction range theory of intelligence
vision
formal operations stage
38. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
sensitive period
Noam Chomsky
Diana Baumrind
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
39. 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).
presbyopia
exosystem
Albert Bandura
self-concept differentiation
40. 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
fast mapping
self-concept differentiation
normative approach
Robert Sternberg
41. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
Albert Bandura
vision
5 psychosexual stages
assimilation
42. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
sensitive period
presbyopia
instrumental aggression
functional play
43. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
preoperation stage
reaction range theory of intelligence
intermodal perception
Locke
44. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
John Bowlby
mean length of utterance
sandwich generation
sensitive period
45. 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
John Bowlby
instrumental aggression
concrete operations stage
Lawrence Kohlberg
46. 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
Albert Bandura
Lawrence Kohlberg
affiliation motive
animistic reasoning
47. When more categories are added to one's self-description
superego
self-concept differentiation
triarchic theory of intelligence
intermodal perception
48. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
5 psychosexual stages
scripts
Albert Bandura
bulimia
49. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
identity moratorium
presbyopia
instinctive drift
mean length of utterance
50. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
formal operations stage
characteristics of autism
assimilation
sensitive period