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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
bulimia
zone of proximal development
Noam Chomsky
Lewis Terman
2. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
scripts
metacognition
learning set
Diana Baumrind
3. 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
Susan Carey
Robert Selman
proximodistal development
Lev Vygotsky
4. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
accommodation
bulimia
embryo
12 and 30
5. 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).
exosystem
CNS and heart
John Bowlby
Moro reflex
6. 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
memory
Robert Sternberg
presbyopia
scripts
7. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
amniocentesis
maternal smoking
conscientiousness
vision
8. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
Diana Baumrind
Robert Selman
vision
mental operations
9. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
imitation
proximodistal development
sensorimotor stage
neglect
10. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
bulimia
habituation method
John Bowlby
metacognition
11. Term for practical intelligence
identity moratorium
Moro reflex
street smarts
mean length of utterance
12. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
Lawrence Kohlberg
Harry Harlow
Susan Carey
instrumental aggression
13. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
Albert Bandura
social deprivation
mean length of utterance
Harry Harlow
14. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
preoperation stage
semantics
overregularization
habituation method
15. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
mean length of utterance
Uri Bronfenbrenner
embryo
animistic reasoning
16. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
Robert Selman
social deprivation
Lewis Terman
normative approach
17. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
characteristics of autism
first spoken word
Robert Selman
Lev Vygotsky
18. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
maternal smoking
semantics
habituation method
triarchic theory of intelligence
19. 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
superego
chorionic villus sampling
presbyopia
assimilation
20. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
amniocentesis
12 and 30
characteristics of autism
concrete operations stage
21. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
Rousseau
accommodation
proximodistal development
functional play
22. 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
animistic reasoning
Howard Gardner
amniocentesis
overregularization
23. 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.
pragmatics
amniocentesis
Diana Baumrind
sandwich generation
24. 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.
basic emotions
Moro reflex
street smarts
Diana Baumrind
25. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
presbyopia
CNS and heart
bulimia
first spoken word
26. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
Diana Baumrind
sandwich generation
fast mapping
self-concept differentiation
27. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
accommodation
bulimia
embryo
Diana Baumrind
28. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
Moro reflex
Robert Sternberg
Susan Carey
intermodal perception
29. When more categories are added to one's self-description
self-concept differentiation
formal operations stage
Lawrence Kohlberg
proximodistal development
30. 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
first spoken word
relational aggression
sensorimotor stage
normative approach
31. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
prosocial behavior
vision
formal operations stage
instrumental aggression
32. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
mean length of utterance
presbyopia
maternal smoking
relational aggression
33. 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
memory
basic emotions
relational aggression
identity moratorium
34. Those with this disease are often normal weight
bulimia
affiliation motive
vision
concrete operations stage
35. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
pragmatics
accommodation
instrumental aggression
Moro reflex
36. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
reaction range theory of intelligence
exosystem
Rousseau
first spoken word
37. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
mean length of utterance
amniocentesis
self-concept differentiation
12 and 30
38. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
social deprivation
intermodal perception
conscientiousness
scripts
39. 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.
Susan Carey
memory
relational aggression
normative approach
40. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
animistic reasoning
prosocial behavior
street smarts
assimilation
41. The average number of MORPHEMES
12 and 30
mean length of utterance
instrumental aggression
intermodal perception
42. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
presbyopia
Rousseau
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
conscientiousness
43. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
concrete operations stage
sensitive period
presbyopia
prosocial behavior
44. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
functional play
basic emotions
reaction range theory of intelligence
social deprivation
45. 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
memory
concrete operations stage
ethology
vision
46. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
assimilation
Harry Harlow
Susan Carey
superego
47. 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.
ethology
Albert Bandura
preoperation stage
functional play
48. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
Harry Harlow
triarchic theory of intelligence
vision
instrumental aggression
49. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
presbyopia
sandwich generation
exosystem
semantics
50. 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.
first spoken word
zone of proximal development
superego
Harry Harlow