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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






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






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






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






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






6. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






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 Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this






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






9. 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






10. Term for practical intelligence






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






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






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






14. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level






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.






16. The basis for most human learning






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






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






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






20. 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






21. 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






22. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






24. 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.






25. 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.






26. 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






27. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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.






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






35. 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






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






37. 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).






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






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






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






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






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






43. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






44. 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






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






46. Those with this disease are often normal weight






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






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






49. 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






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