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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception






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






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






8. 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.






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






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






11. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this






12. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






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






14. The average number of MORPHEMES






15. 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.






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






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






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






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






20. 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






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






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






23. The basis for most human learning






24. 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






25. Those with this disease are often normal weight






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






27. 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






28. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






30. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply






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






32. 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).






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






34. Father of attachment theory






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






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






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






38. 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






39. Term for practical intelligence






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






41. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






42. 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






43. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






45. 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






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






47. 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






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






49. 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






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