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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
5 psychosexual stages
habituation method
Albert Bandura
functional play
2. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
concrete operations stage
preoperation stage
basic emotions
ethology
3. 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.
5 psychosexual stages
Moro reflex
first spoken word
relational aggression
4. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
12 and 30
semantics
Uri Bronfenbrenner
formal operations stage
5. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
accommodation
Robert Selman
street smarts
12 and 30
6. 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).
exosystem
Lev Vygotsky
instrumental aggression
characteristics of autism
7. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
self-concept differentiation
first spoken word
accommodation
proximodistal development
8. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
instinctive drift
semantics
maternal smoking
sensitive period
9. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
intermodal perception
sandwich generation
Lewis Terman
metacognition
10. 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.
Howard Gardner
maternal smoking
Albert Bandura
memory
11. 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
John Bowlby
vision
chorionic villus sampling
12. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
formal operations stage
learning set
proximodistal development
pragmatics
13. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
amniocentesis
animistic reasoning
sensorimotor stage
fast mapping
14. 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.
proximodistal development
amniocentesis
street smarts
Albert Bandura
15. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
assimilation
mental operations
preoperation stage
affiliation motive
16. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
animistic reasoning
bulimia
mental operations
5 psychosexual stages
17. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
metacognition
chorionic villus sampling
conscientiousness
overregularization
18. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
proximodistal development
triarchic theory of intelligence
mean length of utterance
scaffolding
19. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
preoperation stage
scaffolding
bulimia
scripts
20. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
semantics
concrete operations stage
Harry Harlow
Moro reflex
21. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
CNS and heart
mental operations
neglect
zone of proximal development
22. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
sensitive period
presbyopia
CNS and heart
Rousseau
23. 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
instrumental aggression
affiliation motive
12 and 30
24. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
bulimia
Lawrence Kohlberg
Noam Chomsky
25. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
characteristics of autism
instrumental aggression
pragmatics
Diana Baumrind
26. 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
semantics
Robert Sternberg
Howard Gardner
amniocentesis
27. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
prosocial behavior
Robert Sternberg
chorionic villus sampling
sensorimotor stage
28. 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
learning set
zone of proximal development
Moro reflex
normative approach
29. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
affiliation motive
sensitive period
assimilation
identity moratorium
30. 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.
sensorimotor stage
presbyopia
fast mapping
Susan Carey
31. 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.
basic emotions
preoperation stage
pragmatics
John Bowlby
32. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
Rousseau
relational aggression
scripts
Locke
33. 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
Susan Carey
Lewis Terman
zone of proximal development
superego
34. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
chorionic villus sampling
Robert Sternberg
12 and 30
scripts
35. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
Uri Bronfenbrenner
relational aggression
basic emotions
scripts
36. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
instinctive drift
maternal smoking
formal operations stage
Noam Chomsky
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
sensitive period
formal operations stage
Harry Harlow
affiliation motive
38. 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
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
Lawrence Kohlberg
vision
intermodal perception
39. 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
mean length of utterance
identity moratorium
preoperation stage
proximodistal development
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
John Bowlby
Howard Gardner
reaction range theory of intelligence
ethology
41. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
triarchic theory of intelligence
sensorimotor stage
vision
functional play
42. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
sensorimotor stage
assimilation
semantics
Robert Selman
43. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
instrumental aggression
first spoken word
vision
intermodal perception
44. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
bulimia
sensitive period
embryo
presbyopia
45. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
scaffolding
pragmatics
chorionic villus sampling
Howard Gardner
46. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
formal operations stage
basic emotions
instrumental aggression
12 and 30
47. The average number of MORPHEMES
mean length of utterance
vision
scaffolding
accommodation
48. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
Lev Vygotsky
learning set
relational aggression
functional play
49. When more categories are added to one's self-description
conscientiousness
sensitive period
scaffolding
self-concept differentiation
50. Father of attachment theory
John Bowlby
presbyopia
bulimia
maternal smoking