Test your basic knowledge |

CLEP Human Growth And Development

Subjects : clep, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on






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






3. The basis for most human learning






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






5. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation






6. 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.






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






8. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






9. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. 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






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






19. 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






20. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception






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






22. 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






23. 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






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






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






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






27. 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






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






29. 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.






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






31. Term for practical intelligence






32. The average number of MORPHEMES






33. 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






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






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






36. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






42. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






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






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






45. 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






46. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






47. 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.






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






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






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