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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






2. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






4. 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






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






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






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






8. Term for practical intelligence






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






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






11. 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






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






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






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






15. The average number of MORPHEMES






16. 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






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






18. 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






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






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






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






22. Those with this disease are often normal weight






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






24. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






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






27. 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.






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






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






30. 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.






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






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






33. Father of attachment theory






34. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






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






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






38. 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.






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






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).






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






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






43. 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.






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






45. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






46. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






47. The basis for most human learning






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






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






50. 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.