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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






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






3. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






4. 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






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






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.






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






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






9. 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






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






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






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






13. 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.






14. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






16. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






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 Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this






18. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






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






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






22. 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






23. 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.






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






25. 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.






26. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward






27. 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






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






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






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






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






32. 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






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






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






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






36. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.






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






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






39. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






41. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






42. 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






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






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






45. 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






46. 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






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






48. 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).






49. Those with this disease are often normal weight






50. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value







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