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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






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






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






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






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






6. 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






7. 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.






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






9. 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






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






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






12. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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.






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






15. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.






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






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






22. Term for practical intelligence






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






24. 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






25. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation






26. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






28. 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).






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






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






31. Father of attachment theory






32. 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






33. 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






34. 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






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






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






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






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






39. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






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






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






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






43. Those with this disease are often normal weight






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






45. 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






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






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






48. 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






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






50. The average number of MORPHEMES