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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply






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






3. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. The basis for most human learning






13. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






14. The average number of MORPHEMES






15. 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






16. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital






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






18. 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.






19. 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






20. 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






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






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






23. Those with this disease are often normal weight






24. Father of attachment theory






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






26. 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.






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






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






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






30. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






36. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






37. Term for practical intelligence






38. 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






39. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






40. 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.






41. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






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