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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






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






3. 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






4. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.






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






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






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






8. 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.






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






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 Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this






11. 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






12. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level






13. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






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






16. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






17. The basis for most human learning






18. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






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






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






21. 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






22. 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.






23. 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.






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






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






26. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.






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






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






30. 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).






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






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






33. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion






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






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






36. The average number of MORPHEMES






37. 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






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






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






40. Father of attachment theory






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






42. 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






43. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






44. Those with this disease are often normal weight






45. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






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






48. 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






49. Term for practical intelligence






50. 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.