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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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1. 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






2. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on






3. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes






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






6. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital






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






8. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.






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






10. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception






11. 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






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






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






14. Those with this disease are often normal weight






15. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation






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 Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this






17. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






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






20. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






22. Father of attachment theory






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






24. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object






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






26. 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






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






28. 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






29. 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






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






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






32. 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






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






34. 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






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






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






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. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






40. Term for practical intelligence






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






42. The basis for most human learning






43. 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






44. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem






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






46. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






48. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion






49. The average number of MORPHEMES






50. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply