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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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1. 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.






2. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






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






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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






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






14. 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.






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






16. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






18. Those with this disease are often normal weight






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






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






21. 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






22. 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






23. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






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






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






27. 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






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






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






30. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






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






33. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information






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






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






36. 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.






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






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






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






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






41. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






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






44. 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






45. 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






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






47. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






48. The basis for most human learning






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






50. 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.