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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. 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.
Uri Bronfenbrenner
amniocentesis
Robert Selman
12 and 30
2. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
John Bowlby
sensitive period
characteristics of autism
amniocentesis
3. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
Robert Sternberg
maternal smoking
imitation
Lewis Terman
4. 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.
Howard Gardner
amniocentesis
zone of proximal development
semantics
5. 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
Harry Harlow
intermodal perception
Lev Vygotsky
fast mapping
6. The appropriate use of language in different contexts
CNS and heart
identity moratorium
pragmatics
scripts
7. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence.
Moro reflex
triarchic theory of intelligence
proximodistal development
scripts
8. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
scaffolding
learning set
first spoken word
bulimia
9. Oral - anal (1-3) - phallic (4-6) - latency (6-puberty) - genital
conscientiousness
5 psychosexual stages
maternal smoking
ethology
10. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
street smarts
affiliation motive
reaction range theory of intelligence
Rousseau
11. Piaget's notion of incorporating a novel idea or object into an existing schema or conception
triarchic theory of intelligence
assimilation
bulimia
mental operations
12. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
sandwich generation
instrumental aggression
mental operations
scaffolding
13. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
Noam Chomsky
first spoken word
Lawrence Kohlberg
sandwich generation
14. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
basic emotions
Robert Sternberg
Harry Harlow
exosystem
15. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
first spoken word
embryo
semantics
John Bowlby
16. 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
semantics
vision
triarchic theory of intelligence
17. The basis for most human learning
intermodal perception
imitation
concrete operations stage
social deprivation
18. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
mental operations
functional play
Rousseau
instinctive drift
19. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
5 psychosexual stages
habituation method
triarchic theory of intelligence
Lewis Terman
20. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
pragmatics
preoperation stage
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
Uri Bronfenbrenner
21. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
reaction range theory of intelligence
imitation
social deprivation
vision
22. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
scripts
Uri Bronfenbrenner
Robert Sternberg
sensorimotor stage
23. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
presbyopia
embryo
Locke
Albert Bandura
24. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
proximodistal development
amniocentesis
habituation method
normative approach
25. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
neglect
sensorimotor stage
conscientiousness
self-concept differentiation
26. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
12 and 30
instinctive drift
presbyopia
Locke
27. Play by infants and toddlers. activity that involves simple - repetitive movements and no symbolic thinking required. eg. sand shoveling - splashing water - pushing a toy
functional play
Rousseau
proximodistal development
CNS and heart
28. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
preoperation stage
formal operations stage
maternal smoking
reaction range theory of intelligence
29. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
Robert Selman
metacognition
intermodal perception
functional play
30. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
formal operations stage
superego
assimilation
overregularization
31. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
conscientiousness
social deprivation
exosystem
sensorimotor stage
32. 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
sandwich generation
Harry Harlow
identity moratorium
fast mapping
33. 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
Lewis Terman
semantics
Lawrence Kohlberg
characteristics of autism
34. When more categories are added to one's self-description
self-concept differentiation
functional play
normative approach
intermodal perception
35. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
Rousseau
preoperation stage
scripts
affiliation motive
36. 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.
proximodistal development
5 psychosexual stages
first spoken word
Albert Bandura
37. 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
functional play
Howard Gardner
characteristics of autism
basic emotions
38. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
formal operations stage
CNS and heart
conscientiousness
vision
39. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
Uri Bronfenbrenner
habituation method
Albert Bandura
metacognition
40. Term for practical intelligence
scripts
instrumental aggression
Lawrence Kohlberg
street smarts
41. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
zone of proximal development
Susan Carey
presbyopia
social deprivation
42. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
social deprivation
relational aggression
pragmatics
sensitive period
43. 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
affiliation motive
mental operations
Locke
presbyopia
44. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
Lawrence Kohlberg
concrete operations stage
exosystem
bulimia
45. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
semantics
bulimia
John Bowlby
sandwich generation
46. The average number of MORPHEMES
instrumental aggression
mean length of utterance
embryo
Lawrence Kohlberg
47. Father of attachment theory
John Bowlby
mean length of utterance
assimilation
sandwich generation
48. 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
ethology
functional play
metacognition
embryo
49. The fact that children can map a word onto an underlying concept after only a single exposure
learning set
12 and 30
fast mapping
street smarts
50. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
maternal smoking
mental operations
animistic reasoning
Harry Harlow