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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






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






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






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 Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this






5. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






7. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






9. 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






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






11. 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






12. 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






13. The basis for most human learning






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






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






16. 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.






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






18. 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






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






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






21. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






30. 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






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






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






33. 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.






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






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






36. 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.






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






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






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






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






41. 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






42. Father of attachment theory






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






44. 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.






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






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






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






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. 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).






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