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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
Albert Bandura
fast mapping
5 psychosexual stages
Harry Harlow
2. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
5 psychosexual stages
Locke
memory
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
3. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
mean length of utterance
Lev Vygotsky
formal operations stage
metacognition
4. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
Susan Carey
CNS and heart
prosocial behavior
assimilation
5. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
neglect
intermodal perception
Harry Harlow
Lewis Terman
6. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
overregularization
Diana Baumrind
reaction range theory of intelligence
pragmatics
7. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
scripts
Lewis Terman
5 psychosexual stages
overregularization
8. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
sensitive period
Robert Selman
overregularization
ethology
9. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
triarchic theory of intelligence
relational aggression
Lewis Terman
10. 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
Howard Gardner
Moro reflex
bulimia
learning set
11. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
scripts
vision
proximodistal development
concrete operations stage
12. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
pragmatics
John Bowlby
conscientiousness
learning set
13. The basis for most human learning
imitation
scaffolding
learning set
instrumental aggression
14. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
12 and 30
concrete operations stage
normative approach
John Bowlby
15. 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
affiliation motive
Lawrence Kohlberg
maternal smoking
Lev Vygotsky
16. The average number of MORPHEMES
identity moratorium
mean length of utterance
Diana Baumrind
Noam Chomsky
17. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
preoperation stage
Lev Vygotsky
Diana Baumrind
accommodation
18. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
CNS and heart
scaffolding
identity moratorium
sensitive period
19. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
memory
Harry Harlow
chorionic villus sampling
proximodistal development
20. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
sensitive period
Noam Chomsky
scripts
scaffolding
21. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
Albert Bandura
concrete operations stage
Rousseau
neglect
22. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
animistic reasoning
memory
preoperation stage
Locke
23. Father of attachment theory
mental operations
street smarts
overregularization
John Bowlby
24. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
ethology
imitation
pragmatics
sensorimotor stage
25. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
mental operations
exosystem
Harry Harlow
CNS and heart
26. 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
5 psychosexual stages
instrumental aggression
Lawrence Kohlberg
ethology
27. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
Diana Baumrind
affiliation motive
preoperation stage
proximodistal development
28. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
Robert Sternberg
Lewis Terman
semantics
mean length of utterance
29. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
Diana Baumrind
neglect
semantics
amniocentesis
30. 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
Locke
identity moratorium
metacognition
amniocentesis
31. When more categories are added to one's self-description
basic emotions
self-concept differentiation
metacognition
Uri Bronfenbrenner
32. 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
prosocial behavior
intermodal perception
Lawrence Kohlberg
conscientiousness
33. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
scripts
mean length of utterance
street smarts
CNS and heart
34. 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.
affiliation motive
zone of proximal development
habituation method
exosystem
35. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
imitation
amniocentesis
Harry Harlow
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
36. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
conscientiousness
Uri Bronfenbrenner
Noam Chomsky
relational aggression
37. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
basic emotions
Locke
Rousseau
John Bowlby
38. 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
presbyopia
Uri Bronfenbrenner
amniocentesis
ethology
39. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
instrumental aggression
zone of proximal development
maternal smoking
normative approach
40. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
proximodistal development
basic emotions
prosocial behavior
intermodal perception
41. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
chorionic villus sampling
habituation method
Rousseau
formal operations stage
42. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
metacognition
functional play
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
affiliation motive
43. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
Noam Chomsky
sensorimotor stage
learning set
social deprivation
44. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
formal operations stage
reaction range theory of intelligence
Locke
Rousseau
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.
Noam Chomsky
instinctive drift
chorionic villus sampling
amniocentesis
46. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
conscientiousness
Harry Harlow
Lev Vygotsky
characteristics of autism
47. 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.
sensitive period
Moro reflex
animistic reasoning
scripts
48. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
relational aggression
Robert Selman
functional play
scripts
49. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
reaction range theory of intelligence
normative approach
prosocial behavior
neglect
50. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
semantics
animistic reasoning
characteristics of autism
scaffolding