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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






2. 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






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






4. Those with this disease are often normal weight






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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






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






15. 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






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






17. 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






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






19. 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






20. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






22. 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






23. 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






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






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






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






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






28. 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






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






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






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






32. 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.






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






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






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






36. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






37. Father of attachment theory






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






39. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






42. 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.






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






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






45. 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.






46. The basis for most human learning






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






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






49. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






50. 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.