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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
maternal smoking
mental operations
functional play
Howard Gardner
2. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
reaction range theory of intelligence
fast mapping
Harry Harlow
scaffolding
3. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
concrete operations stage
amniocentesis
Robert Sternberg
sensitive period
4. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
relational aggression
instinctive drift
affiliation motive
scripts
5. 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
instrumental aggression
Albert Bandura
identity moratorium
street smarts
6. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
accommodation
first spoken word
habituation method
embryo
7. 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
pragmatics
habituation method
Susan Carey
8. 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.
Locke
assimilation
Moro reflex
habituation method
9. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
habituation method
characteristics of autism
Howard Gardner
relational aggression
10. 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
basic emotions
conscientiousness
self-concept differentiation
memory
11. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
intermodal perception
CNS and heart
mental operations
formal operations stage
12. 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.
sensitive period
embryo
amniocentesis
Susan Carey
13. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
instinctive drift
Susan Carey
chorionic villus sampling
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
14. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
learning set
relational aggression
presbyopia
sensorimotor stage
15. Term for practical intelligence
affiliation motive
street smarts
Diana Baumrind
habituation method
16. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
embryo
5 psychosexual stages
preoperation stage
Robert Selman
17. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
overregularization
memory
triarchic theory of intelligence
social deprivation
18. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
normative approach
intermodal perception
Uri Bronfenbrenner
sensitive period
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
prosocial behavior
self-concept differentiation
social deprivation
neglect
20. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
Locke
sensorimotor stage
Uri Bronfenbrenner
learning set
21. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
vision
maternal smoking
preoperation stage
basic emotions
22. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
Howard Gardner
characteristics of autism
metacognition
presbyopia
23. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
presbyopia
ethology
semantics
neglect
24. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
Noam Chomsky
characteristics of autism
triarchic theory of intelligence
functional play
25. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
imitation
CNS and heart
accommodation
triarchic theory of intelligence
26. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
concrete operations stage
neglect
characteristics of autism
vision
27. 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
semantics
Diana Baumrind
Howard Gardner
triarchic theory of intelligence
28. The basis for most human learning
imitation
self-concept differentiation
Harry Harlow
sensorimotor stage
29. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
Harry Harlow
Diana Baumrind
chorionic villus sampling
12 and 30
30. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
Uri Bronfenbrenner
proximodistal development
relational aggression
mean length of utterance
31. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
self-concept differentiation
functional play
instrumental aggression
pragmatics
32. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
Noam Chomsky
functional play
fast mapping
preoperation stage
33. 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).
exosystem
intermodal perception
instrumental aggression
identity moratorium
34. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
memory
zone of proximal development
chorionic villus sampling
instrumental aggression
35. Father of attachment theory
Rousseau
instrumental aggression
John Bowlby
Albert Bandura
36. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
assimilation
vision
sandwich generation
formal operations stage
37. 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.
identity moratorium
Susan Carey
scaffolding
12 and 30
38. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
learning set
imitation
Noam Chomsky
mental operations
39. 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.
preoperation stage
Lev Vygotsky
Diana Baumrind
maternal smoking
40. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
12 and 30
street smarts
learning set
functional play
41. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
semantics
Robert Selman
Susan Carey
scaffolding
42. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
reaction range theory of intelligence
CNS and heart
animistic reasoning
assimilation
43. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
sensitive period
sandwich generation
formal operations stage
first spoken word
44. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
vision
mental operations
Lewis Terman
functional play
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
Lawrence Kohlberg
metacognition
amniocentesis
neglect
46. Those with this disease are often normal weight
intermodal perception
imitation
bulimia
Robert Sternberg
47. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
concrete operations stage
preoperation stage
exosystem
maternal smoking
48. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
maternal smoking
formal operations stage
ethology
sensitive period
49. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
Rousseau
Howard Gardner
first spoken word
preoperation stage
50. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
reaction range theory of intelligence
Noam Chomsky
concrete operations stage
exosystem