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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
relational aggression
zone of proximal development
Robert Sternberg
overregularization
2. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
relational aggression
sandwich generation
chorionic villus sampling
Harry Harlow
3. Term for practical intelligence
street smarts
Noam Chomsky
5 psychosexual stages
characteristics of autism
4. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
habituation method
ethology
Uri Bronfenbrenner
scaffolding
5. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
first spoken word
Locke
memory
CNS and heart
6. 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
Lev Vygotsky
memory
reaction range theory of intelligence
12 and 30
7. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
fast mapping
bulimia
basic emotions
Locke
8. 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
imitation
instinctive drift
prosocial behavior
metacognition
9. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
reaction range theory of intelligence
12 and 30
mean length of utterance
embryo
10. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
Noam Chomsky
functional play
conscientiousness
identity moratorium
11. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
semantics
Uri Bronfenbrenner
learning set
pragmatics
12. 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.
5 psychosexual stages
Robert Selman
Susan Carey
superego
13. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
first spoken word
learning set
Lewis Terman
Lev Vygotsky
14. Father of attachment theory
amniocentesis
John Bowlby
pragmatics
presbyopia
15. 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
presbyopia
sensitive period
vision
superego
16. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
proximodistal development
reaction range theory of intelligence
12 and 30
maternal smoking
17. 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.
amniocentesis
zone of proximal development
embryo
functional play
18. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
5 psychosexual stages
street smarts
sandwich generation
imitation
19. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
Lawrence Kohlberg
Susan Carey
5 psychosexual stages
reaction range theory of intelligence
20. 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.
Albert Bandura
preoperation stage
instinctive drift
sensitive period
21. The basis for most human learning
accommodation
exosystem
John Bowlby
imitation
22. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
sensitive period
accommodation
instrumental aggression
amniocentesis
23. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
animistic reasoning
12 and 30
conscientiousness
scaffolding
24. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
first spoken word
intermodal perception
Harry Harlow
Noam Chomsky
25. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
fast mapping
sensitive period
Albert Bandura
CNS and heart
26. 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
relational aggression
Lawrence Kohlberg
mean length of utterance
bulimia
27. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
mean length of utterance
maternal smoking
self-concept differentiation
concrete operations stage
28. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
fast mapping
formal operations stage
Lewis Terman
amniocentesis
29. 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
affiliation motive
intermodal perception
CNS and heart
embryo
30. 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.
habituation method
fast mapping
overregularization
preoperation stage
31. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
vision
accommodation
pragmatics
street smarts
32. 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
Robert Selman
scaffolding
characteristics of autism
33. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
habituation method
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
Robert Selman
scripts
34. 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).
neglect
overregularization
exosystem
amniocentesis
35. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
Robert Sternberg
sensitive period
CNS and heart
characteristics of autism
36. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
relational aggression
sensitive period
learning set
exosystem
37. The average number of MORPHEMES
5 psychosexual stages
mean length of utterance
proximodistal development
presbyopia
38. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
Lewis Terman
assimilation
first spoken word
prosocial behavior
39. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
presbyopia
social deprivation
Robert Sternberg
Noam Chomsky
40. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
overregularization
memory
concrete operations stage
Locke
41. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
zone of proximal development
mental operations
Rousseau
Locke
42. Those with this disease are often normal weight
bulimia
functional play
embryo
Rousseau
43. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
affiliation motive
Robert Selman
scaffolding
metacognition
44. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
concrete operations stage
functional play
Rousseau
sensorimotor stage
45. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
CNS and heart
sensitive period
scaffolding
sensorimotor stage
46. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
conscientiousness
normative approach
concrete operations stage
CNS and heart
47. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
normative approach
chorionic villus sampling
instrumental aggression
embryo
48. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
learning set
proximodistal development
functional play
Diana Baumrind
49. 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
memory
relational aggression
self-concept differentiation
sensitive period
50. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
reaction range theory of intelligence
Harry Harlow
superego
sandwich generation