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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
sensitive period
superego
mental operations
prosocial behavior
2. The basis for most human learning
sensorimotor stage
assimilation
Lewis Terman
imitation
3. When more categories are added to one's self-description
normative approach
bulimia
self-concept differentiation
Lawrence Kohlberg
4. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
ethology
accommodation
first spoken word
Albert Bandura
5. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
intermodal perception
maternal smoking
conscientiousness
Howard Gardner
6. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
relational aggression
Moro reflex
embryo
triarchic theory of intelligence
7. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
learning set
presbyopia
vision
Diana Baumrind
8. 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).
Albert Bandura
metacognition
chorionic villus sampling
exosystem
9. 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.
Lewis Terman
instrumental aggression
12 and 30
preoperation stage
10. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
12 and 30
relational aggression
Lev Vygotsky
presbyopia
11. 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
first spoken word
prosocial behavior
accommodation
12. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
ethology
memory
overregularization
Noam Chomsky
13. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
habituation method
12 and 30
chorionic villus sampling
fast mapping
14. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
animistic reasoning
mental operations
fast mapping
ethology
15. 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.
Susan Carey
concrete operations stage
Locke
Moro reflex
16. 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
maternal smoking
triarchic theory of intelligence
Howard Gardner
instinctive drift
17. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
mental operations
pragmatics
Uri Bronfenbrenner
instinctive drift
18. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
formal operations stage
neglect
ethology
Noam Chomsky
19. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
overregularization
Uri Bronfenbrenner
pragmatics
maternal smoking
20. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
mental operations
semantics
reaction range theory of intelligence
memory
21. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
amniocentesis
basic emotions
assimilation
CNS and heart
22. Father of attachment theory
intermodal perception
characteristics of autism
Diana Baumrind
John Bowlby
23. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
animistic reasoning
street smarts
social deprivation
semantics
24. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
Robert Selman
5 psychosexual stages
embryo
sensorimotor stage
25. 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
scaffolding
functional play
ethology
reaction range theory of intelligence
26. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
proximodistal development
vision
CNS and heart
intermodal perception
27. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
John Bowlby
ethology
proximodistal development
pragmatics
28. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
exosystem
instrumental aggression
imitation
Harry Harlow
29. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
concrete operations stage
animistic reasoning
5 psychosexual stages
Uri Bronfenbrenner
30. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
reaction range theory of intelligence
affiliation motive
intermodal perception
embryo
31. 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.
imitation
overregularization
Albert Bandura
instrumental aggression
32. 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
affiliation motive
imitation
Moro reflex
33. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
Moro reflex
formal operations stage
sandwich generation
ethology
34. 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
sandwich generation
intermodal perception
John Bowlby
memory
35. 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.
prosocial behavior
amniocentesis
Rousseau
bulimia
36. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
affiliation motive
scripts
maternal smoking
Robert Selman
37. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
superego
functional play
triarchic theory of intelligence
scripts
38. 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
Albert Bandura
identity moratorium
prosocial behavior
habituation method
39. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
concrete operations stage
Rousseau
mental operations
pragmatics
40. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
John Bowlby
reaction range theory of intelligence
Howard Gardner
Lewis Terman
41. The average number of MORPHEMES
functional play
mean length of utterance
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
metacognition
42. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
sensorimotor stage
mental operations
exosystem
43. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
Noam Chomsky
sensitive period
superego
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
44. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
assimilation
fast mapping
exosystem
bulimia
45. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
learning set
CNS and heart
ethology
preoperation stage
46. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
chorionic villus sampling
bulimia
CNS and heart
learning set
47. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
street smarts
Robert Selman
sandwich generation
Lewis Terman
48. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
presbyopia
Robert Sternberg
learning set
conscientiousness
49. 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
John Bowlby
superego
pragmatics
chorionic villus sampling
50. 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
normative approach
identity moratorium
sensorimotor stage
semantics