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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation






2. 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






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






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






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






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






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






8. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






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






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






12. 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.






13. 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






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






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






16. 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






17. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






19. 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.






20. 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






21. 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






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






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






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. 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.






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






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






28. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






30. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






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






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






33. 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






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






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






36. 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






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






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






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






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






41. 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






42. Those with this disease are often normal weight






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






44. 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.






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






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






47. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






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






50. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse