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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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1. The average number of MORPHEMES






2. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible






3. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information






4. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object






5. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults






6. 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






7. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children






8. 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.






9. 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






10. 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.






11. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on






12. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers






13. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.






14. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement






15. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






16. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.






17. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






18. 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).






19. 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






20. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process






21. 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






22. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






23. Those with this disease are often normal weight






24. Term for practical intelligence






25. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






26. 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






27. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.






28. 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.






29. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem






30. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy






31. 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.






32. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning






33. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward






34. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects






35. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital






36. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception






37. 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






38. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.






39. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure






40. 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






41. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events






42. Father of attachment theory






43. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes






44. The basis for most human learning






45. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion






46. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end






47. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






48. When more categories are added to one's self-description






49. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.






50. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them