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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
imitation
Uri Bronfenbrenner
Lawrence Kohlberg
Noam Chomsky
2. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
chorionic villus sampling
zone of proximal development
scripts
sensorimotor stage
3. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
Uri Bronfenbrenner
intermodal perception
superego
5 psychosexual stages
4. 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
identity moratorium
exosystem
CNS and heart
memory
5. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
habituation method
exosystem
instinctive drift
Rousseau
6. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
sensitive period
neglect
bulimia
scripts
7. The basis for most human learning
identity moratorium
CNS and heart
imitation
neglect
8. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
relational aggression
concrete operations stage
instrumental aggression
formal operations stage
9. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
learning set
Albert Bandura
reaction range theory of intelligence
maternal smoking
10. 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
sensitive period
affiliation motive
first spoken word
sensorimotor stage
11. 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
sandwich generation
Robert Selman
embryo
Lawrence Kohlberg
12. 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.
Howard Gardner
amniocentesis
Albert Bandura
chorionic villus sampling
13. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
CNS and heart
metacognition
Lewis Terman
characteristics of autism
14. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
social deprivation
vision
animistic reasoning
first spoken word
15. Father of attachment theory
basic emotions
John Bowlby
Albert Bandura
conscientiousness
16. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
Susan Carey
functional play
prosocial behavior
12 and 30
17. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
Susan Carey
ethology
Robert Selman
metacognition
18. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
habituation method
Susan Carey
sensitive period
animistic reasoning
19. 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
functional play
superego
mental operations
20. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
Lewis Terman
characteristics of autism
scaffolding
conscientiousness
21. 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
amniocentesis
Howard Gardner
overregularization
memory
22. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
triarchic theory of intelligence
conscientiousness
ethology
Lewis Terman
23. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
relational aggression
Robert Sternberg
formal operations stage
Lewis Terman
24. 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
Albert Bandura
mean length of utterance
ethology
Lawrence Kohlberg
25. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
Susan Carey
first spoken word
scaffolding
habituation method
26. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
scripts
metacognition
maternal smoking
embryo
27. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
5 psychosexual stages
embryo
chorionic villus sampling
bulimia
28. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
CNS and heart
pragmatics
Robert Sternberg
assimilation
29. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
bulimia
concrete operations stage
instrumental aggression
5 psychosexual stages
30. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
first spoken word
prosocial behavior
Noam Chomsky
proximodistal development
31. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
Robert Selman
memory
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
relational aggression
32. When more categories are added to one's self-description
characteristics of autism
sandwich generation
Noam Chomsky
self-concept differentiation
33. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
neglect
pragmatics
sandwich generation
Lewis Terman
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
vision
street smarts
exosystem
35. 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.
amniocentesis
formal operations stage
superego
5 psychosexual stages
36. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
relational aggression
first spoken word
intermodal perception
prosocial behavior
37. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
ethology
Noam Chomsky
sandwich generation
Robert Selman
38. 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
first spoken word
prosocial behavior
social deprivation
formal operations stage
39. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
sensitive period
first spoken word
Lewis Terman
Robert Sternberg
40. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
scaffolding
John Bowlby
conscientiousness
learning set
41. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
proximodistal development
Diana Baumrind
sandwich generation
neglect
42. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
sensorimotor stage
bulimia
ethology
Locke
43. 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.
instinctive drift
zone of proximal development
identity moratorium
learning set
44. 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.
sensitive period
animistic reasoning
preoperation stage
exosystem
45. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
fast mapping
identity moratorium
learning set
intermodal perception
46. Term for practical intelligence
functional play
zone of proximal development
street smarts
Lawrence Kohlberg
47. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
Uri Bronfenbrenner
presbyopia
Albert Bandura
bulimia
48. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
basic emotions
5 psychosexual stages
learning set
proximodistal development
49. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
instinctive drift
scaffolding
John Bowlby
overregularization
50. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
formal operations stage
John Bowlby
overregularization
Locke