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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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1. 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.






2. Term for practical intelligence






3. 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.






4. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information






5. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






7. 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.






8. 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






9. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






11. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






19. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy






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






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






29. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






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






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






33. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






34. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.






35. 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.






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






37. 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






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






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






40. 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






41. 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






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






43. The basis for most human learning






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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






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.