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