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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
Howard Gardner
animistic reasoning
Harry Harlow
proximodistal development
2. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
sensorimotor stage
Lewis Terman
semantics
characteristics of autism
3. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
intermodal perception
sandwich generation
mental operations
Lawrence Kohlberg
4. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
Lewis Terman
12 and 30
imitation
metacognition
5. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
formal operations stage
fast mapping
prosocial behavior
6. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
animistic reasoning
characteristics of autism
intermodal perception
mental operations
7. 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
maternal smoking
animistic reasoning
Uri Bronfenbrenner
Lev Vygotsky
8. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
Lewis Terman
neglect
Moro reflex
instrumental aggression
9. The basis for most human learning
imitation
CNS and heart
scripts
mean length of utterance
10. 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
amniocentesis
scaffolding
affiliation motive
Uri Bronfenbrenner
11. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
metacognition
learning set
Robert Sternberg
Diana Baumrind
12. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
sensorimotor stage
identity moratorium
fast mapping
conscientiousness
13. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
prosocial behavior
imitation
vision
memory
14. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
street smarts
instinctive drift
first spoken word
fast mapping
15. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
sensitive period
proximodistal development
zone of proximal development
16. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
Locke
mental operations
Moro reflex
superego
17. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
street smarts
scaffolding
maternal smoking
concrete operations stage
18. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
habituation method
exosystem
metacognition
accommodation
19. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
proximodistal development
chorionic villus sampling
sandwich generation
preoperation stage
20. Those with this disease are often normal weight
mean length of utterance
sensitive period
bulimia
affiliation motive
21. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
characteristics of autism
Robert Sternberg
Lev Vygotsky
Moro reflex
22. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
overregularization
amniocentesis
identity moratorium
Robert Selman
23. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
first spoken word
mental operations
mean length of utterance
24. 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
relational aggression
Howard Gardner
Rousseau
25. 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
vision
semantics
CNS and heart
26. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
sensorimotor stage
sensitive period
Robert Selman
metacognition
27. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
Moro reflex
prosocial behavior
pragmatics
sensitive period
28. 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
presbyopia
Moro reflex
ethology
exosystem
29. 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).
normative approach
chorionic villus sampling
Diana Baumrind
exosystem
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.
Diana Baumrind
presbyopia
superego
preoperation stage
31. Father of attachment theory
John Bowlby
maternal smoking
scripts
Uri Bronfenbrenner
32. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
Howard Gardner
reaction range theory of intelligence
proximodistal development
CNS and heart
33. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
scripts
fast mapping
concrete operations stage
imitation
34. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
concrete operations stage
animistic reasoning
instinctive drift
Moro reflex
35. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
animistic reasoning
scripts
assimilation
5 psychosexual stages
36. 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
Lewis Terman
basic emotions
identity moratorium
mean length of utterance
37. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
instinctive drift
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
Lewis Terman
fast mapping
38. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
accommodation
preoperation stage
metacognition
triarchic theory of intelligence
39. Term for practical intelligence
zone of proximal development
exosystem
street smarts
CNS and heart
40. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
CNS and heart
neglect
accommodation
Moro reflex
41. 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
CNS and heart
presbyopia
superego
normative approach
42. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
instrumental aggression
zone of proximal development
Susan Carey
social deprivation
43. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
relational aggression
Diana Baumrind
maternal smoking
Susan Carey
44. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
Noam Chomsky
Moro reflex
identity moratorium
overregularization
45. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
mental operations
embryo
sensitive period
semantics
46. 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
pragmatics
Howard Gardner
instinctive drift
conscientiousness
47. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
learning set
concrete operations stage
intermodal perception
Robert Selman
48. 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
Uri Bronfenbrenner
embryo
accommodation
Lawrence Kohlberg
49. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
12 and 30
Howard Gardner
presbyopia
50. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
proximodistal development
animistic reasoning
learning set
maternal smoking