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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






2. 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.






3. 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






4. 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.






5. 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






6. Term for practical intelligence






7. 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.






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






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. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






11. 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






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






13. 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.






14. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






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






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






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






19. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception






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






21. 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






22. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






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






24. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group






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






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






27. 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






28. 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






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






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






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






32. Father of attachment theory






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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






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






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






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






44. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






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






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






48. The basis for most human learning






49. 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






50. The average number of MORPHEMES