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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Term for practical intelligence
functional play
sensitive period
vision
street smarts
2. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
proximodistal development
intermodal perception
Rousseau
Diana Baumrind
3. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
maternal smoking
social deprivation
animistic reasoning
Harry Harlow
4. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
sensorimotor stage
characteristics of autism
overregularization
mean length of utterance
5. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
embryo
zone of proximal development
prosocial behavior
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
6. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
instinctive drift
accommodation
proximodistal development
mental operations
7. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
Howard Gardner
proximodistal development
scripts
street smarts
8. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
social deprivation
pragmatics
characteristics of autism
animistic reasoning
9. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
Lawrence Kohlberg
reaction range theory of intelligence
memory
Rousseau
10. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
vision
characteristics of autism
preoperation stage
fast mapping
11. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
Harry Harlow
sensitive period
12 and 30
sandwich generation
12. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
street smarts
CNS and heart
learning set
social deprivation
13. 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.
12 and 30
zone of proximal development
Lawrence Kohlberg
Susan Carey
14. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
identity moratorium
presbyopia
sandwich generation
5 psychosexual stages
15. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
amniocentesis
instinctive drift
relational aggression
12 and 30
16. When more categories are added to one's self-description
neglect
normative approach
Moro reflex
self-concept differentiation
17. 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.
preoperation stage
neglect
superego
relational aggression
18. 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
maternal smoking
memory
mental operations
Albert Bandura
19. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
mental operations
ethology
overregularization
relational aggression
20. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
social deprivation
neglect
embryo
Harry Harlow
21. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
metacognition
intermodal perception
concrete operations stage
zone of proximal development
22. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
zone of proximal development
metacognition
basic emotions
prosocial behavior
23. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
Rousseau
concrete operations stage
5 psychosexual stages
scripts
24. The basis for most human learning
Diana Baumrind
imitation
exosystem
reaction range theory of intelligence
25. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
zone of proximal development
Lawrence Kohlberg
Uri Bronfenbrenner
fast mapping
26. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
habituation method
overregularization
Rousseau
instrumental aggression
27. 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
12 and 30
John Bowlby
imitation
28. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
intermodal perception
assimilation
Moro reflex
12 and 30
29. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
chorionic villus sampling
functional play
learning set
Noam Chomsky
30. 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).
sensitive period
exosystem
amniocentesis
mean length of utterance
31. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
pragmatics
first spoken word
Locke
mental operations
32. 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
Noam Chomsky
pragmatics
Howard Gardner
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
33. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
learning set
memory
Lev Vygotsky
presbyopia
34. 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
accommodation
Lawrence Kohlberg
Locke
mean length of utterance
35. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
Lewis Terman
Robert Sternberg
zone of proximal development
Locke
36. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
metacognition
vision
mean length of utterance
scaffolding
37. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
accommodation
Noam Chomsky
Moro reflex
chorionic villus sampling
38. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
Harry Harlow
maternal smoking
accommodation
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
39. 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
sandwich generation
CNS and heart
normative approach
ethology
40. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
scaffolding
presbyopia
Howard Gardner
social deprivation
41. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
first spoken word
ethology
intermodal perception
Robert Selman
42. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
relational aggression
semantics
scripts
concrete operations stage
43. 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.
accommodation
amniocentesis
Lev Vygotsky
reaction range theory of intelligence
44. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
concrete operations stage
superego
basic emotions
animistic reasoning
45. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
John Bowlby
learning set
sensorimotor stage
triarchic theory of intelligence
46. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
Moro reflex
Uri Bronfenbrenner
street smarts
Locke
47. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
relational aggression
Robert Selman
Lawrence Kohlberg
Diana Baumrind
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.
Moro reflex
CNS and heart
Albert Bandura
amniocentesis
49. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
pragmatics
chorionic villus sampling
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
presbyopia
50. 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
concrete operations stage
identity moratorium
metacognition