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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






2. The basis for most human learning






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






4. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






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






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






8. 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).






9. 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.






10. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






16. 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






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






18. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






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






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






22. Father of attachment theory






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






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






25. 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






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






27. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






28. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






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






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






31. 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.






32. 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






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






34. 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






35. 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.






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






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






38. 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






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






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






41. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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






50. 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