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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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1. 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






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






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






4. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






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






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 Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this






7. 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






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






9. 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.






10. 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






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






13. 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.






14. Father of attachment theory






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






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






17. The basis for most human learning






18. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






19. 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






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






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






22. 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.






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






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






26. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






27. 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






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






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






30. 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






31. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults






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






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






34. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






36. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






37. Term for practical intelligence






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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






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






45. 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).






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






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






48. 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






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






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