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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






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






3. 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).






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






5. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






7. Father of attachment theory






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






9. Those with this disease are often normal weight






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. 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






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






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






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 Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this






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






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






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






24. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






25. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






26. 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






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






28. 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






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






32. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






33. The average number of MORPHEMES






34. 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






35. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






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






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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






46. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






47. 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






48. The basis for most human learning






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






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