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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. 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
5 psychosexual stages
superego
Diana Baumrind
accommodation
2. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
Howard Gardner
zone of proximal development
functional play
assimilation
3. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
sensorimotor stage
intermodal perception
chorionic villus sampling
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
4. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
relational aggression
exosystem
characteristics of autism
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.
maternal smoking
Locke
Lev Vygotsky
preoperation stage
6. 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
identity moratorium
Lawrence Kohlberg
semantics
street smarts
7. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
imitation
Rousseau
formal operations stage
Susan Carey
8. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
Noam Chomsky
Diana Baumrind
conscientiousness
pragmatics
9. 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
learning set
identity moratorium
Moro reflex
ethology
10. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
exosystem
amniocentesis
concrete operations stage
sandwich generation
11. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
Howard Gardner
embryo
ethology
street smarts
12. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
intermodal perception
Locke
memory
proximodistal development
13. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
bulimia
Locke
metacognition
sensorimotor stage
14. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
mental operations
scaffolding
exosystem
neglect
15. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
chorionic villus sampling
metacognition
learning set
accommodation
16. The average number of MORPHEMES
memory
affiliation motive
mean length of utterance
semantics
17. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
ethology
learning set
conscientiousness
bulimia
18. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
Robert Selman
normative approach
identity moratorium
preoperation stage
19. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
formal operations stage
characteristics of autism
Robert Selman
Harry Harlow
20. 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
Robert Selman
mean length of utterance
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
Howard Gardner
21. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
first spoken word
sensitive period
Harry Harlow
instrumental aggression
22. Father of attachment theory
zone of proximal development
Rousseau
John Bowlby
Albert Bandura
23. 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.
scaffolding
functional play
Moro reflex
triarchic theory of intelligence
24. Term for practical intelligence
street smarts
concrete operations stage
maternal smoking
relational aggression
25. Those with this disease are often normal weight
learning set
imitation
superego
bulimia
26. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
Susan Carey
intermodal perception
prosocial behavior
accommodation
27. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
12 and 30
street smarts
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
semantics
28. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
Lewis Terman
affiliation motive
Lawrence Kohlberg
Uri Bronfenbrenner
29. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
Harry Harlow
metacognition
formal operations stage
30. 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
scaffolding
normative approach
metacognition
preoperation stage
31. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
sandwich generation
superego
semantics
formal operations stage
32. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
prosocial behavior
normative approach
preoperation stage
neglect
33. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
proximodistal development
mental operations
characteristics of autism
fast mapping
34. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
bulimia
overregularization
presbyopia
Moro reflex
35. 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.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Susan Carey
prosocial behavior
accommodation
36. 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.
Uri Bronfenbrenner
animistic reasoning
amniocentesis
Robert Selman
37. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
functional play
formal operations stage
bulimia
Robert Sternberg
38. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
Noam Chomsky
Albert Bandura
memory
Locke
39. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
bulimia
CNS and heart
Noam Chomsky
instrumental aggression
40. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
zone of proximal development
vision
ethology
conscientiousness
41. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
semantics
sensitive period
Uri Bronfenbrenner
scripts
42. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
mental operations
animistic reasoning
instinctive drift
presbyopia
43. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
conscientiousness
formal operations stage
pragmatics
presbyopia
44. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
instrumental aggression
affiliation motive
concrete operations stage
John Bowlby
45. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
amniocentesis
normative approach
sensitive period
street smarts
46. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
Noam Chomsky
reaction range theory of intelligence
5 psychosexual stages
scripts
47. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
characteristics of autism
superego
presbyopia
12 and 30
48. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
relational aggression
mental operations
ethology
sandwich generation
49. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
Diana Baumrind
chorionic villus sampling
presbyopia
mental operations
50. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
fast mapping
Lewis Terman
intermodal perception