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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
accommodation
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
conscientiousness
CNS and heart
2. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
concrete operations stage
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
Lev Vygotsky
assimilation
3. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
Locke
instrumental aggression
animistic reasoning
overregularization
4. 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.
Moro reflex
instinctive drift
chorionic villus sampling
imitation
5. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
functional play
learning set
scripts
bulimia
6. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
presbyopia
scaffolding
ethology
superego
7. 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
assimilation
semantics
intermodal perception
affiliation motive
8. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
Robert Selman
presbyopia
mental operations
Diana Baumrind
9. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
mental operations
proximodistal development
Robert Selman
normative approach
10. Term for practical intelligence
learning set
street smarts
vision
semantics
11. The average number of MORPHEMES
functional play
5 psychosexual stages
exosystem
mean length of utterance
12. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
metacognition
animistic reasoning
scripts
pragmatics
13. 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.
Moro reflex
proximodistal development
conscientiousness
preoperation stage
14. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
prosocial behavior
triarchic theory of intelligence
Lev Vygotsky
Moro reflex
15. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
Lev Vygotsky
Howard Gardner
accommodation
first spoken word
16. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
mental operations
Howard Gardner
intermodal perception
Harry Harlow
17. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
Rousseau
scripts
Lewis Terman
Noam Chomsky
18. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
presbyopia
learning set
social deprivation
assimilation
19. 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.
identity moratorium
affiliation motive
fast mapping
Albert Bandura
20. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
vision
Robert Sternberg
preoperation stage
assimilation
21. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
conscientiousness
Moro reflex
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
John Bowlby
22. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
sensorimotor stage
proximodistal development
intermodal perception
metacognition
23. Those with this disease are often normal weight
preoperation stage
bulimia
conscientiousness
characteristics of autism
24. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
superego
chorionic villus sampling
Albert Bandura
first spoken word
25. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
normative approach
intermodal perception
basic emotions
5 psychosexual stages
26. The basis for most human learning
street smarts
exosystem
habituation method
imitation
27. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
scaffolding
Noam Chomsky
amniocentesis
bulimia
28. 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
instinctive drift
maternal smoking
instrumental aggression
29. 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
overregularization
Lewis Terman
Uri Bronfenbrenner
30. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
Robert Sternberg
5 psychosexual stages
memory
self-concept differentiation
31. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
12 and 30
ethology
learning set
habituation method
32. 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
reaction range theory of intelligence
Robert Sternberg
street smarts
identity moratorium
33. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
presbyopia
vision
normative approach
instinctive drift
34. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
identity moratorium
Rousseau
5 psychosexual stages
Locke
35. 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
Diana Baumrind
normative approach
identity moratorium
Locke
36. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
scripts
chorionic villus sampling
ethology
identity moratorium
37. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
Rousseau
scripts
semantics
scaffolding
38. 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.
Noam Chomsky
amniocentesis
relational aggression
neglect
39. 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.
bulimia
functional play
metacognition
Susan Carey
40. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
instrumental aggression
vision
embryo
relational aggression
41. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
Noam Chomsky
zone of proximal development
learning set
proximodistal development
42. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
Harry Harlow
formal operations stage
ethology
instinctive drift
43. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
sensorimotor stage
animistic reasoning
preoperation stage
embryo
44. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
exosystem
concrete operations stage
Susan Carey
Harry Harlow
45. Father of attachment theory
mean length of utterance
instinctive drift
learning set
John Bowlby
46. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
animistic reasoning
characteristics of autism
Diana Baumrind
Uri Bronfenbrenner
47. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
vision
first spoken word
sensitive period
neglect
48. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
Rousseau
sensorimotor stage
5 psychosexual stages
exosystem
49. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
self-concept differentiation
imitation
reaction range theory of intelligence
50. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
relational aggression
preoperation stage
animistic reasoning
amniocentesis