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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
concrete operations stage
preoperation stage
metacognition
overregularization
2. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
Noam Chomsky
imitation
mean length of utterance
Moro reflex
3. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
self-concept differentiation
street smarts
learning set
reaction range theory of intelligence
4. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
reaction range theory of intelligence
Moro reflex
amniocentesis
proximodistal development
5. 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.
preoperation stage
sandwich generation
Noam Chomsky
5 psychosexual stages
6. 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.
Moro reflex
superego
reaction range theory of intelligence
bulimia
7. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
learning set
ethology
Uri Bronfenbrenner
Robert Sternberg
8. 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.
zone of proximal development
self-concept differentiation
Noam Chomsky
5 psychosexual stages
9. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
scripts
street smarts
intermodal perception
basic emotions
10. The basis for most human learning
Susan Carey
semantics
self-concept differentiation
imitation
11. 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.
self-concept differentiation
learning set
Albert Bandura
pragmatics
12. 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).
imitation
exosystem
Noam Chomsky
conscientiousness
13. 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
overregularization
exosystem
assimilation
superego
14. 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
prosocial behavior
concrete operations stage
functional play
reaction range theory of intelligence
15. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
Moro reflex
12 and 30
social deprivation
scripts
16. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
Moro reflex
conscientiousness
Lawrence Kohlberg
street smarts
17. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
animistic reasoning
semantics
12 and 30
intermodal perception
18. 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
Noam Chomsky
embryo
ethology
animistic reasoning
19. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
instrumental aggression
CNS and heart
social deprivation
Robert Selman
20. Those with this disease are often normal weight
identity moratorium
affiliation motive
reaction range theory of intelligence
bulimia
21. 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
basic emotions
normative approach
pragmatics
prosocial behavior
22. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
presbyopia
mental operations
vision
maternal smoking
23. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
self-concept differentiation
first spoken word
Uri Bronfenbrenner
presbyopia
24. 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
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
memory
accommodation
Robert Sternberg
25. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
pragmatics
sandwich generation
Lewis Terman
scripts
26. 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.
social deprivation
first spoken word
Susan Carey
basic emotions
27. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
CNS and heart
street smarts
metacognition
Diana Baumrind
28. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
prosocial behavior
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
instrumental aggression
formal operations stage
29. 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
learning set
Lev Vygotsky
memory
semantics
30. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
Rousseau
overregularization
instinctive drift
embryo
31. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
sandwich generation
proximodistal development
learning set
instinctive drift
32. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
embryo
overregularization
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
exosystem
33. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
vision
formal operations stage
prosocial behavior
ethology
34. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
Harry Harlow
amniocentesis
Albert Bandura
identity moratorium
35. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
normative approach
Uri Bronfenbrenner
pragmatics
functional play
36. 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
imitation
animistic reasoning
intermodal perception
Howard Gardner
37. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
amniocentesis
concrete operations stage
sandwich generation
triarchic theory of intelligence
38. 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.
scaffolding
exosystem
amniocentesis
learning set
39. Term for practical intelligence
Robert Sternberg
street smarts
12 and 30
normative approach
40. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
Rousseau
social deprivation
Howard Gardner
pragmatics
41. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
Albert Bandura
instinctive drift
sensorimotor stage
sandwich generation
42. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
embryo
first spoken word
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
chorionic villus sampling
43. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
concrete operations stage
normative approach
scaffolding
Noam Chomsky
44. When more categories are added to one's self-description
CNS and heart
Rousseau
Locke
self-concept differentiation
45. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
chorionic villus sampling
scripts
amniocentesis
learning set
46. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
Noam Chomsky
preoperation stage
reaction range theory of intelligence
intermodal perception
47. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
5 psychosexual stages
assimilation
triarchic theory of intelligence
prosocial behavior
48. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
social deprivation
relational aggression
Susan Carey
self-concept differentiation
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
overregularization
conscientiousness
Lewis Terman
identity moratorium
50. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
presbyopia
concrete operations stage
chorionic villus sampling
animistic reasoning