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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.






2. 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






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






4. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






5. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






6. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






7. 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






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 Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this






9. The average number of MORPHEMES






10. 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).






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






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






13. 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.






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






15. 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.






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






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






18. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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






26. Term for practical intelligence






27. 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.






28. 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






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






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






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






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






33. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






34. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






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.






37. 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.






38. 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






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






40. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






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






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






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






45. 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






46. The basis for most human learning






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






48. Those with this disease are often normal weight






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






50. 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