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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
Harry Harlow
accommodation
basic emotions
scaffolding
2. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
learning set
proximodistal development
fast mapping
vision
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
self-concept differentiation
memory
affiliation motive
formal operations stage
4. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
Noam Chomsky
zone of proximal development
Lawrence Kohlberg
exosystem
5. The average number of MORPHEMES
maternal smoking
Diana Baumrind
mean length of utterance
animistic reasoning
6. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
memory
prosocial behavior
reaction range theory of intelligence
concrete operations stage
7. 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.
Lawrence Kohlberg
ethology
self-concept differentiation
Susan Carey
8. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
neglect
characteristics of autism
overregularization
metacognition
9. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
pragmatics
relational aggression
sensitive period
memory
10. 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.
Albert Bandura
Noam Chomsky
Robert Selman
concrete operations stage
11. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
identity moratorium
Locke
normative approach
Uri Bronfenbrenner
12. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion
embryo
Albert Bandura
animistic reasoning
chorionic villus sampling
13. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
preoperation stage
exosystem
imitation
habituation method
14. 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
semantics
ethology
normative approach
learning set
15. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
Robert Selman
learning set
Harry Harlow
self-concept differentiation
16. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
sensorimotor stage
reaction range theory of intelligence
functional play
memory
17. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
neglect
vision
Albert Bandura
animistic reasoning
18. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
self-concept differentiation
scaffolding
instinctive drift
animistic reasoning
19. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
pragmatics
John Bowlby
first spoken word
instinctive drift
20. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
formal operations stage
exosystem
Robert Sternberg
instrumental aggression
21. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
accommodation
instinctive drift
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
CNS and heart
22. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
Lev Vygotsky
Harry Harlow
scripts
metacognition
23. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
scripts
instrumental aggression
imitation
Robert Selman
24. 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
12 and 30
Uri Bronfenbrenner
memory
25. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
maternal smoking
John Bowlby
embryo
memory
26. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
Lewis Terman
Robert Selman
Susan Carey
concrete operations stage
27. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
prosocial behavior
sandwich generation
embryo
Robert Sternberg
28. 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
presbyopia
ethology
identity moratorium
imitation
29. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
sensorimotor stage
pragmatics
habituation method
Robert Selman
30. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
CNS and heart
identity moratorium
Robert Sternberg
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
31. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
accommodation
Susan Carey
animistic reasoning
bulimia
32. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
scaffolding
identity moratorium
scripts
triarchic theory of intelligence
33. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
scripts
Lewis Terman
Locke
presbyopia
34. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
Locke
normative approach
preoperation stage
embryo
35. 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
habituation method
Lev Vygotsky
Lawrence Kohlberg
conscientiousness
36. 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
functional play
reaction range theory of intelligence
presbyopia
Lawrence Kohlberg
37. 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.
amniocentesis
presbyopia
concrete operations stage
scripts
38. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
Robert Selman
functional play
intermodal perception
sandwich generation
39. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
embryo
CNS and heart
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
characteristics of autism
40. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
vision
pragmatics
characteristics of autism
first spoken word
41. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
assimilation
semantics
proximodistal development
John Bowlby
42. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
overregularization
5 psychosexual stages
sensorimotor stage
Harry Harlow
43. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
conscientiousness
presbyopia
exosystem
pragmatics
44. 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
chorionic villus sampling
Noam Chomsky
presbyopia
45. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
presbyopia
metacognition
pragmatics
reaction range theory of intelligence
46. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
overregularization
maternal smoking
prosocial behavior
mean length of utterance
47. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
embryo
formal operations stage
street smarts
sensitive period
48. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
identity moratorium
relational aggression
mean length of utterance
social deprivation
49. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
Lawrence Kohlberg
intermodal perception
Lev Vygotsky
instrumental aggression
50. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
mental operations
instinctive drift
Lewis Terman
sensorimotor stage