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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
prosocial behavior
functional play
Lawrence Kohlberg
intermodal perception
2. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
formal operations stage
pragmatics
12 and 30
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
3. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
sandwich generation
Susan Carey
Robert Sternberg
instinctive drift
4. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
learning set
sensorimotor stage
identity moratorium
Harry Harlow
5. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
Lev Vygotsky
scaffolding
Robert Selman
maternal smoking
6. 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
Albert Bandura
reaction range theory of intelligence
bulimia
Lawrence Kohlberg
7. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
first spoken word
sensitive period
12 and 30
Rousseau
8. 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
reaction range theory of intelligence
bulimia
pragmatics
normative approach
9. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
normative approach
relational aggression
exosystem
sensorimotor stage
10. 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
Susan Carey
accommodation
habituation method
identity moratorium
11. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
relational aggression
neglect
conscientiousness
prosocial behavior
12. Father of attachment theory
John Bowlby
prosocial behavior
vision
characteristics of autism
13. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
normative approach
Lewis Terman
assimilation
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
14. 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
John Bowlby
semantics
proximodistal development
memory
15. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
conscientiousness
ethology
vision
semantics
16. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
characteristics of autism
Lewis Terman
street smarts
learning set
17. When more categories are added to one's self-description
self-concept differentiation
triarchic theory of intelligence
mean length of utterance
concrete operations stage
18. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
Lev Vygotsky
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
maternal smoking
triarchic theory of intelligence
19. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
Uri Bronfenbrenner
scaffolding
Moro reflex
12 and 30
20. The average number of MORPHEMES
mean length of utterance
memory
embryo
metacognition
21. 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
neglect
animistic reasoning
ethology
zone of proximal development
22. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
maternal smoking
imitation
assimilation
metacognition
23. 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
ethology
affiliation motive
Lev Vygotsky
neglect
24. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
exosystem
scaffolding
characteristics of autism
John Bowlby
25. 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
Howard Gardner
superego
metacognition
Robert Selman
26. 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.
Albert Bandura
Robert Selman
first spoken word
social deprivation
27. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
basic emotions
5 psychosexual stages
formal operations stage
animistic reasoning
28. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
Harry Harlow
first spoken word
Robert Selman
12 and 30
29. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
concrete operations stage
overregularization
amniocentesis
accommodation
30. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
Uri Bronfenbrenner
instinctive drift
Howard Gardner
semantics
31. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
semantics
John Bowlby
Rousseau
metacognition
32. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
pragmatics
12 and 30
characteristics of autism
Rousseau
33. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
CNS and heart
Howard Gardner
self-concept differentiation
street smarts
34. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
Robert Selman
semantics
overregularization
chorionic villus sampling
35. 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
social deprivation
animistic reasoning
affiliation motive
Harry Harlow
36. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
Moro reflex
semantics
scripts
bulimia
37. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
affiliation motive
vision
proximodistal development
scaffolding
38. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
CNS and heart
instrumental aggression
embryo
Lewis Terman
39. Term for practical intelligence
semantics
street smarts
learning set
Robert Sternberg
40. 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).
self-concept differentiation
exosystem
first spoken word
identity moratorium
41. 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.
habituation method
Rousseau
vision
preoperation stage
42. 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
social deprivation
fast mapping
metacognition
prosocial behavior
43. Those with this disease are often normal weight
accommodation
bulimia
pragmatics
mean length of utterance
44. 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
Robert Sternberg
John Bowlby
superego
scaffolding
45. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
identity moratorium
relational aggression
metacognition
Uri Bronfenbrenner
46. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
bulimia
CNS and heart
self-concept differentiation
reaction range theory of intelligence
47. 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.
zone of proximal development
memory
neglect
Uri Bronfenbrenner
48. 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.
12 and 30
amniocentesis
metacognition
embryo
49. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
Lev Vygotsky
5 psychosexual stages
maternal smoking
bulimia
50. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
prosocial behavior
exosystem
characteristics of autism
sensitive period