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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. 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
affiliation motive
preoperation stage
animistic reasoning
Susan Carey
2. 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
Lev Vygotsky
accommodation
prosocial behavior
conscientiousness
3. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
basic emotions
John Bowlby
habituation method
Howard Gardner
4. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
Diana Baumrind
Noam Chomsky
Harry Harlow
learning set
5. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
maternal smoking
sensitive period
vision
sandwich generation
6. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
mental operations
proximodistal development
prosocial behavior
neglect
7. 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
Lawrence Kohlberg
learning set
scaffolding
Noam Chomsky
8. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
Susan Carey
Robert Selman
first spoken word
bulimia
9. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
sandwich generation
sensitive period
exosystem
5 psychosexual stages
10. Term for practical intelligence
vision
Noam Chomsky
memory
street smarts
11. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
chorionic villus sampling
overregularization
scaffolding
conscientiousness
12. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
relational aggression
Robert Selman
presbyopia
self-concept differentiation
13. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
sensorimotor stage
Lev Vygotsky
scripts
social deprivation
14. The basis for most human learning
animistic reasoning
sandwich generation
functional play
imitation
15. 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).
mental operations
CNS and heart
exosystem
chorionic villus sampling
16. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
proximodistal development
mental operations
imitation
metacognition
17. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
fast mapping
identity moratorium
accommodation
assimilation
18. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
exosystem
conscientiousness
semantics
functional play
19. 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
semantics
bulimia
ethology
Susan Carey
20. The average number of MORPHEMES
Harry Harlow
mean length of utterance
Albert Bandura
basic emotions
21. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
Howard Gardner
instinctive drift
formal operations stage
reaction range theory of intelligence
22. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
pragmatics
formal operations stage
accommodation
ethology
23. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
Lev Vygotsky
exosystem
social deprivation
5 psychosexual stages
24. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
maternal smoking
mental operations
habituation method
identity moratorium
25. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
12 and 30
vision
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
animistic reasoning
26. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
imitation
metacognition
animistic reasoning
CNS and heart
27. 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.
amniocentesis
Lewis Terman
sensorimotor stage
Diana Baumrind
28. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
intermodal perception
animistic reasoning
instrumental aggression
first spoken word
29. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
12 and 30
Diana Baumrind
proximodistal development
bulimia
30. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
Robert Selman
animistic reasoning
Diana Baumrind
intermodal perception
31. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
triarchic theory of intelligence
12 and 30
basic emotions
Susan Carey
32. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
exosystem
superego
triarchic theory of intelligence
scripts
33. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
Diana Baumrind
accommodation
Howard Gardner
relational aggression
34. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
neglect
presbyopia
Locke
sensorimotor stage
35. 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
superego
Lawrence Kohlberg
instinctive drift
prosocial behavior
36. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
learning set
metacognition
12 and 30
Rousseau
37. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
identity moratorium
Moro reflex
Susan Carey
instinctive drift
38. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
preoperation stage
pragmatics
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
Robert Selman
39. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
first spoken word
Lewis Terman
mental operations
superego
40. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
instrumental aggression
John Bowlby
triarchic theory of intelligence
concrete operations stage
41. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
metacognition
proximodistal development
pragmatics
intermodal perception
42. 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
prosocial behavior
intermodal perception
semantics
memory
43. When more categories are added to one's self-description
mental operations
characteristics of autism
proximodistal development
self-concept differentiation
44. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
social deprivation
scripts
affiliation motive
chorionic villus sampling
45. Those with this disease are often normal weight
animistic reasoning
bulimia
relational aggression
amniocentesis
46. 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.
semantics
bulimia
exosystem
Moro reflex
47. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
Harry Harlow
triarchic theory of intelligence
imitation
memory
48. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
neglect
semantics
sensorimotor stage
exosystem
49. 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.
memory
instrumental aggression
Susan Carey
embryo
50. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
Robert Sternberg
accommodation
embryo
mean length of utterance