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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






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






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






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






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 Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this






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






7. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






8. 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






9. 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).






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






11. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






12. 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.






13. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






15. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy






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






17. 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






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






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






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






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






23. The average number of MORPHEMES






24. 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.






25. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






27. 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






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






29. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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






36. Term for practical intelligence






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






38. 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






39. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






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






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






42. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






44. 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.






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






46. 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






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






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






49. 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.






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