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 Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this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