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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
basic emotions
pragmatics
identity moratorium
neglect
2. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
amniocentesis
sensorimotor stage
Noam Chomsky
mental operations
3. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
accommodation
Diana Baumrind
formal operations stage
preoperation stage
4. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
presbyopia
sensitive period
formal operations stage
12 and 30
5. 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.
5 psychosexual stages
ethology
Susan Carey
pragmatics
6. 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.
zone of proximal development
street smarts
triarchic theory of intelligence
Locke
7. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
5 psychosexual stages
overregularization
sensorimotor stage
presbyopia
8. Term for practical intelligence
conscientiousness
street smarts
characteristics of autism
Lev Vygotsky
9. 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
bulimia
superego
John Bowlby
Diana Baumrind
10. The basis for most human learning
imitation
conscientiousness
triarchic theory of intelligence
instinctive drift
11. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
CNS and heart
12 and 30
triarchic theory of intelligence
Lev Vygotsky
12. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
Rousseau
zone of proximal development
5 psychosexual stages
Uri Bronfenbrenner
13. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
social deprivation
vision
street smarts
Harry Harlow
14. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
accommodation
Robert Sternberg
instinctive drift
prosocial behavior
15. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
animistic reasoning
concrete operations stage
Robert Sternberg
12 and 30
16. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
overregularization
Lewis Terman
5 psychosexual stages
Uri Bronfenbrenner
17. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
triarchic theory of intelligence
Noam Chomsky
instrumental aggression
Diana Baumrind
18. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
reaction range theory of intelligence
characteristics of autism
Rousseau
Uri Bronfenbrenner
19. The average number of MORPHEMES
sensitive period
mean length of utterance
first spoken word
Lawrence Kohlberg
20. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
functional play
pragmatics
scaffolding
CNS and heart
21. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
first spoken word
affiliation motive
memory
proximodistal development
22. 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
sandwich generation
superego
Lawrence Kohlberg
prosocial behavior
23. When more categories are added to one's self-description
social deprivation
scaffolding
self-concept differentiation
sensitive period
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.
sensitive period
amniocentesis
sensorimotor stage
relational aggression
25. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
first spoken word
ethology
Lev Vygotsky
reaction range theory of intelligence
26. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
accommodation
sandwich generation
formal operations stage
Uri Bronfenbrenner
27. 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
normative approach
ethology
instinctive drift
Uri Bronfenbrenner
28. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
vision
assimilation
proximodistal development
intermodal perception
29. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
memory
self-concept differentiation
instinctive drift
30. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
sandwich generation
semantics
mental operations
affiliation motive
31. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
CNS and heart
12 and 30
reaction range theory of intelligence
basic emotions
32. 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
5 psychosexual stages
superego
basic emotions
33. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
imitation
Lev Vygotsky
chorionic villus sampling
pragmatics
34. 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
bulimia
Moro reflex
fast mapping
identity moratorium
35. 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
Harry Harlow
embryo
affiliation motive
proximodistal development
36. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
accommodation
social deprivation
Albert Bandura
habituation method
37. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
relational aggression
zone of proximal development
basic emotions
amniocentesis
38. 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.
Locke
Albert Bandura
intermodal perception
triarchic theory of intelligence
39. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
instinctive drift
scripts
learning set
John Bowlby
40. Those with this disease are often normal weight
sandwich generation
intermodal perception
semantics
bulimia
41. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
instinctive drift
instrumental aggression
relational aggression
Robert Sternberg
42. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
animistic reasoning
vision
characteristics of autism
43. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
Rousseau
Moro reflex
assimilation
proximodistal development
44. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
metacognition
Rousseau
Albert Bandura
12 and 30
45. 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).
mean length of utterance
self-concept differentiation
assimilation
exosystem
46. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
Lawrence Kohlberg
conscientiousness
affiliation motive
Rousseau
47. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
habituation method
scaffolding
sandwich generation
characteristics of autism
48. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
accommodation
semantics
intermodal perception
assimilation
49. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
characteristics of autism
instrumental aggression
Lewis Terman
proximodistal development
50. 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
embryo
Howard Gardner
ethology
functional play
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