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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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1. 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






2. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness






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






4. 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






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






6. 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






7. 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






8. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.






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






10. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)






11. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation






12. Those with this disease are often normal weight






13. 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.






14. 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).






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






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






17. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion






18. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential






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






20. 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






21. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system






22. The basis for most human learning






23. 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.






24. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes






25. 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






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






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






28. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities






29. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.






30. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






32. The average number of MORPHEMES






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






39. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.






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






41. Father of attachment theory






42. 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






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






44. 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.






45. 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






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






47. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.






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






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






50. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level