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