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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






2. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






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






5. 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






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






7. 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






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






9. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






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






11. 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.






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 Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this






13. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






14. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.






15. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them






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






25. The average number of MORPHEMES






26. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






34. 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






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






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






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






38. 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.






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






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






41. 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.






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






43. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness






44. 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.






45. The basis for most human learning






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






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






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






49. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






50. 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.