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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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1. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level






2. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this






3. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities






4. 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. 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.






6. 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.






7. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.






8. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure






9. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes






10. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information






11. 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.






12. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)






13. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.






14. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system






15. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward






16. The average number of MORPHEMES






17. 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






18. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group






19. 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






20. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.






21. When more categories are added to one's self-description






22. 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






23. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end






24. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy






25. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible






26. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.






27. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.






28. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning






29. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






30. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential






31. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events






32. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






33. Those with this disease are often normal weight






34. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects






35. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement






36. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception






37. 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).






38. 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






39. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion






40. Father of attachment theory






41. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






42. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.






43. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.






44. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children






45. 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






46. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






47. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers






48. 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.






49. 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






50. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process