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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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1. 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






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






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






4. Father of attachment theory






5. 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






6. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






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






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






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






10. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






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






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






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






15. 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






16. 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.






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






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






19. 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.






20. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






29. Term for practical intelligence






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






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






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).






34. 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






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






36. 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.






37. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






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






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






41. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






43. 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






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






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






46. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






48. 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






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






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