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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






2. 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).






3. 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






4. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






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






7. 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.






8. 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






9. 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.






10. 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






11. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






17. 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.






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






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






20. 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






21. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






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






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






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






26. The basis for most human learning






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






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






29. 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






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






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






32. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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






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






41. 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






42. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






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






44. 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






45. Term for practical intelligence






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






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






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






49. The average number of MORPHEMES






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