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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. 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.
amniocentesis
fast mapping
zone of proximal development
semantics
2. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
scaffolding
Howard Gardner
zone of proximal development
habituation method
3. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
first spoken word
Lewis Terman
basic emotions
5 psychosexual stages
4. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
scaffolding
Robert Sternberg
sensitive period
Rousseau
5. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
overregularization
presbyopia
conscientiousness
superego
6. Those with this disease are often normal weight
instinctive drift
embryo
Diana Baumrind
bulimia
7. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
mean length of utterance
Uri Bronfenbrenner
semantics
habituation method
8. 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.
conscientiousness
Albert Bandura
sensitive period
scripts
9. Father of attachment theory
concrete operations stage
superego
vision
John Bowlby
10. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
embryo
scaffolding
instinctive drift
chorionic villus sampling
11. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
triarchic theory of intelligence
Noam Chomsky
conscientiousness
John Bowlby
12. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
scaffolding
accommodation
sensitive period
sandwich generation
13. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
exosystem
CNS and heart
Lev Vygotsky
Robert Sternberg
14. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
Lawrence Kohlberg
reaction range theory of intelligence
chorionic villus sampling
memory
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
Diana Baumrind
John Bowlby
Robert Selman
superego
16. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
Moro reflex
chorionic villus sampling
formal operations stage
triarchic theory of intelligence
17. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
Robert Sternberg
concrete operations stage
amniocentesis
12 and 30
18. 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
fast mapping
sensorimotor stage
concrete operations stage
Lawrence Kohlberg
19. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
chorionic villus sampling
Robert Selman
mental operations
street smarts
20. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
intermodal perception
embryo
bulimia
Robert Selman
21. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
Locke
concrete operations stage
metacognition
Moro reflex
22. 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
Susan Carey
John Bowlby
prosocial behavior
reaction range theory of intelligence
23. Term for practical intelligence
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
animistic reasoning
street smarts
Lewis Terman
24. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
Howard Gardner
Robert Sternberg
amniocentesis
mental operations
25. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
Harry Harlow
neglect
chorionic villus sampling
accommodation
26. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
sensorimotor stage
neglect
animistic reasoning
basic emotions
27. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
Lewis Terman
imitation
identity moratorium
characteristics of autism
28. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
Uri Bronfenbrenner
basic emotions
identity moratorium
metacognition
29. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
formal operations stage
fast mapping
Noam Chomsky
overregularization
30. 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).
Locke
assimilation
exosystem
maternal smoking
31. 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
mental operations
bulimia
functional play
identity moratorium
32. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
affiliation motive
first spoken word
memory
conscientiousness
33. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
CNS and heart
Lawrence Kohlberg
learning set
12 and 30
34. 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
John Bowlby
Howard Gardner
accommodation
maternal smoking
35. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
scripts
superego
pragmatics
mental operations
36. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
overregularization
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
relational aggression
superego
37. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
CNS and heart
proximodistal development
learning set
fast mapping
38. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
instinctive drift
sensitive period
reaction range theory of intelligence
bulimia
39. 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.
overregularization
amniocentesis
Moro reflex
Uri Bronfenbrenner
40. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
maternal smoking
triarchic theory of intelligence
Noam Chomsky
first spoken word
41. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
chorionic villus sampling
Moro reflex
sandwich generation
Susan Carey
42. 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
exosystem
John Bowlby
Susan Carey
normative approach
43. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
learning set
habituation method
maternal smoking
prosocial behavior
44. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
Diana Baumrind
Albert Bandura
fast mapping
functional play
45. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
relational aggression
Uri Bronfenbrenner
overregularization
proximodistal development
46. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
Howard Gardner
CNS and heart
characteristics of autism
self-concept differentiation
47. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
vision
scripts
Rousseau
Robert Selman
48. The basis for most human learning
semantics
Uri Bronfenbrenner
imitation
Locke
49. When more categories are added to one's self-description
self-concept differentiation
ethology
street smarts
identity moratorium
50. 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.
vision
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
street smarts
preoperation stage