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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.






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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






8. Father of attachment theory






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






10. 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.






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






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






13. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






14. 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






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






16. 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.






17. 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






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






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






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






21. Those with this disease are often normal weight






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






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






24. 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.






25. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.






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






27. The basis for most human learning






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






29. The average number of MORPHEMES






30. 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






31. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception






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






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






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






35. 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






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






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






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






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






40. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






41. 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.






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






43. 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.






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






45. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






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).






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






49. 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






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