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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
proximodistal development
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
formal operations stage
functional play
2. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
reaction range theory of intelligence
street smarts
Robert Selman
mental operations
3. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
neglect
Diana Baumrind
assimilation
functional play
4. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
Uri Bronfenbrenner
reaction range theory of intelligence
preoperation stage
instrumental aggression
5. When more categories are added to one's self-description
John Bowlby
self-concept differentiation
overregularization
bulimia
6. The basis for most human learning
imitation
prosocial behavior
assimilation
Moro reflex
7. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
5 psychosexual stages
Uri Bronfenbrenner
identity moratorium
bulimia
8. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
John Bowlby
Harry Harlow
scripts
accommodation
9. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
scripts
conscientiousness
Lawrence Kohlberg
Rousseau
10. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
John Bowlby
habituation method
Howard Gardner
instrumental aggression
11. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
habituation method
Uri Bronfenbrenner
basic emotions
pragmatics
12. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
memory
Harry Harlow
functional play
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
13. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
Robert Selman
maternal smoking
amniocentesis
affiliation motive
14. Father of attachment theory
Harry Harlow
overregularization
John Bowlby
basic emotions
15. 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
CNS and heart
preoperation stage
social deprivation
16. 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
5 psychosexual stages
basic emotions
Lawrence Kohlberg
ethology
17. 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.
triarchic theory of intelligence
Moro reflex
instinctive drift
formal operations stage
18. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
mental operations
semantics
relational aggression
Noam Chomsky
19. 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.
prosocial behavior
semantics
basic emotions
Susan Carey
20. 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
formal operations stage
memory
Diana Baumrind
Lewis Terman
21. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
habituation method
scripts
assimilation
functional play
22. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
Albert Bandura
mental operations
learning set
Lewis Terman
23. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
preoperation stage
Noam Chomsky
instinctive drift
neglect
24. Those with this disease are often normal weight
Robert Selman
bulimia
Rousseau
affiliation motive
25. Term for practical intelligence
sensorimotor stage
learning set
street smarts
embryo
26. 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
John Bowlby
fast mapping
formal operations stage
prosocial behavior
27. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
Diana Baumrind
sensitive period
superego
Harry Harlow
28. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
accommodation
Howard Gardner
scaffolding
John Bowlby
29. 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.
Robert Selman
conscientiousness
concrete operations stage
preoperation stage
30. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
sensorimotor stage
vision
characteristics of autism
concrete operations stage
31. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
Diana Baumrind
instrumental aggression
Noam Chomsky
semantics
32. The average number of MORPHEMES
Howard Gardner
mean length of utterance
5 psychosexual stages
Diana Baumrind
33. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
imitation
instrumental aggression
vision
prosocial behavior
34. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
functional play
overregularization
Lawrence Kohlberg
scaffolding
35. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
overregularization
metacognition
scripts
scaffolding
36. 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.
mental operations
affiliation motive
Albert Bandura
Howard Gardner
37. 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
sensorimotor stage
affiliation motive
overregularization
amniocentesis
38. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
proximodistal development
metacognition
bulimia
instrumental aggression
39. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
sandwich generation
maternal smoking
ethology
Robert Selman
40. 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
Albert Bandura
ethology
sensitive period
assimilation
41. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
Rousseau
preoperation stage
Lev Vygotsky
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
42. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
semantics
mean length of utterance
presbyopia
scripts
43. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
basic emotions
triarchic theory of intelligence
normative approach
fast mapping
44. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
affiliation motive
first spoken word
Moro reflex
superego
45. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
mental operations
Diana Baumrind
imitation
learning set
46. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
Robert Sternberg
5 psychosexual stages
formal operations stage
basic emotions
47. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
mean length of utterance
chorionic villus sampling
affiliation motive
scripts
48. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
Diana Baumrind
animistic reasoning
basic emotions
49. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
embryo
semantics
vision
Susan Carey
50. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
intermodal perception
Diana Baumrind
sandwich generation
sensorimotor stage