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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
affiliation motive
bulimia
12 and 30
chorionic villus sampling
2. 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
memory
instrumental aggression
characteristics of autism
Howard Gardner
3. 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
overregularization
Lawrence Kohlberg
social deprivation
ethology
4. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
instinctive drift
neglect
first spoken word
scaffolding
5. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
Uri Bronfenbrenner
metacognition
affiliation motive
social deprivation
6. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
exosystem
formal operations stage
Moro reflex
Robert Selman
7. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
sandwich generation
social deprivation
intermodal perception
street smarts
8. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
Lewis Terman
prosocial behavior
mental operations
Moro reflex
9. 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.
sensitive period
zone of proximal development
proximodistal development
sensorimotor stage
10. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
accommodation
embryo
sensorimotor stage
relational aggression
11. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
learning set
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
John Bowlby
presbyopia
12. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
characteristics of autism
zone of proximal development
affiliation motive
Uri Bronfenbrenner
13. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
sandwich generation
metacognition
Albert Bandura
Noam Chomsky
14. Those with this disease are often normal weight
bulimia
mean length of utterance
Moro reflex
Howard Gardner
15. Father of attachment theory
exosystem
sensorimotor stage
John Bowlby
zone of proximal development
16. When more categories are added to one's self-description
identity moratorium
self-concept differentiation
first spoken word
Lewis Terman
17. 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
Albert Bandura
identity moratorium
self-concept differentiation
Locke
18. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
Locke
Rousseau
Diana Baumrind
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
19. The average number of MORPHEMES
instinctive drift
overregularization
self-concept differentiation
mean length of utterance
20. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
instrumental aggression
Locke
5 psychosexual stages
intermodal perception
21. 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.
Moro reflex
relational aggression
Susan Carey
metacognition
22. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
mental operations
instrumental aggression
Rousseau
Locke
23. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
Robert Sternberg
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
Lev Vygotsky
CNS and heart
24. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
sensorimotor stage
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
overregularization
characteristics of autism
25. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
preoperation stage
reaction range theory of intelligence
learning set
proximodistal development
26. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
instinctive drift
Robert Sternberg
Robert Selman
Susan Carey
27. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
Lev Vygotsky
Harry Harlow
presbyopia
sensitive period
28. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
Rousseau
maternal smoking
Locke
chorionic villus sampling
29. 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
preoperation stage
formal operations stage
relational aggression
superego
30. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
instinctive drift
embryo
mental operations
superego
31. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
social deprivation
scripts
assimilation
Albert Bandura
32. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
habituation method
sensitive period
metacognition
animistic reasoning
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.
maternal smoking
scripts
amniocentesis
exosystem
34. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
Diana Baumrind
intermodal perception
street smarts
overregularization
35. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
ethology
reaction range theory of intelligence
Diana Baumrind
mean length of utterance
36. 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
mean length of utterance
Noam Chomsky
normative approach
12 and 30
37. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
formal operations stage
John Bowlby
Locke
social deprivation
38. 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
street smarts
zone of proximal development
prosocial behavior
assimilation
39. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
sensorimotor stage
Diana Baumrind
pragmatics
instinctive drift
40. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
intermodal perception
Howard Gardner
vision
superego
41. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
self-concept differentiation
assimilation
pragmatics
neglect
42. 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
accommodation
reaction range theory of intelligence
fast mapping
43. 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
affiliation motive
sensorimotor stage
superego
chorionic villus sampling
44. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
sensitive period
prosocial behavior
characteristics of autism
Locke
45. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
semantics
Locke
basic emotions
Noam Chomsky
46. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
vision
embryo
first spoken word
sensitive period
47. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
habituation method
Robert Selman
sensorimotor stage
concrete operations stage
48. 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.
learning set
pragmatics
sensitive period
Albert Bandura
49. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
learning set
ethology
vision
exosystem
50. 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
exosystem
Lewis Terman
vision