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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
embryo
identity moratorium
maternal smoking
functional play
2. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
preoperation stage
sensorimotor stage
conscientiousness
intermodal perception
3. 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.
habituation method
concrete operations stage
amniocentesis
scaffolding
4. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
Locke
memory
CNS and heart
social deprivation
5. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
Howard Gardner
conscientiousness
Locke
relational aggression
6. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
basic emotions
Noam Chomsky
Moro reflex
sensorimotor stage
7. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
Harry Harlow
assimilation
metacognition
functional play
8. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
Noam Chomsky
Lewis Terman
memory
sensitive period
9. 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
normative approach
accommodation
Howard Gardner
mental operations
10. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
overregularization
metacognition
fast mapping
characteristics of autism
11. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
assimilation
fast mapping
reaction range theory of intelligence
sensorimotor stage
12. 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
pragmatics
identity moratorium
instrumental aggression
normative approach
13. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
social deprivation
chorionic villus sampling
ethology
scaffolding
14. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
first spoken word
Robert Selman
presbyopia
exosystem
15. 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.
instrumental aggression
functional play
preoperation stage
reaction range theory of intelligence
16. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
sensitive period
scaffolding
Noam Chomsky
concrete operations stage
17. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
identity moratorium
preoperation stage
embryo
street smarts
18. 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.
sandwich generation
Harry Harlow
Albert Bandura
semantics
19. Term for practical intelligence
scaffolding
sandwich generation
street smarts
memory
20. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
superego
fast mapping
self-concept differentiation
scripts
21. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
memory
assimilation
Locke
maternal smoking
22. 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.
Moro reflex
preoperation stage
functional play
zone of proximal development
23. 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
memory
scaffolding
semantics
mental operations
24. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
vision
scaffolding
basic emotions
neglect
25. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
Uri Bronfenbrenner
characteristics of autism
vision
sensitive period
26. 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).
Susan Carey
conscientiousness
exosystem
preoperation stage
27. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
first spoken word
concrete operations stage
metacognition
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
28. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
Harry Harlow
semantics
basic emotions
chorionic villus sampling
29. 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
animistic reasoning
normative approach
overregularization
street smarts
30. 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
conscientiousness
exosystem
instrumental aggression
superego
31. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
Diana Baumrind
Harry Harlow
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
conscientiousness
32. The basis for most human learning
fast mapping
imitation
Albert Bandura
memory
33. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
imitation
sensorimotor stage
characteristics of autism
instrumental aggression
34. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
relational aggression
fast mapping
Rousseau
formal operations stage
35. When more categories are added to one's self-description
self-concept differentiation
Uri Bronfenbrenner
vision
reaction range theory of intelligence
36. 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
functional play
Lawrence Kohlberg
concrete operations stage
Locke
37. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
mental operations
Lewis Terman
proximodistal development
superego
38. 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
learning set
mean length of utterance
semantics
Lev Vygotsky
39. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
Howard Gardner
animistic reasoning
Robert Sternberg
overregularization
40. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
street smarts
sensitive period
instinctive drift
vision
41. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
Diana Baumrind
embryo
Uri Bronfenbrenner
first spoken word
42. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
Robert Sternberg
bulimia
proximodistal development
characteristics of autism
43. 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
fast mapping
Howard Gardner
affiliation motive
presbyopia
44. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
pragmatics
accommodation
12 and 30
basic emotions
45. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
Lewis Terman
chorionic villus sampling
instinctive drift
social deprivation
46. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
CNS and heart
ethology
sensorimotor stage
instinctive drift
47. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
scripts
proximodistal development
CNS and heart
basic emotions
48. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
overregularization
conscientiousness
street smarts
sandwich generation
49. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
Robert Selman
12 and 30
Lawrence Kohlberg
Rousseau
50. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
habituation method
scaffolding
functional play
basic emotions