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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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1. Term for practical intelligence






2. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes






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






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






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






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






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






8. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






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






10. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






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.






18. 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






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






20. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






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






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






24. The basis for most human learning






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






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






27. 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.






28. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






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






32. 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






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






34. 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






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






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






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






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






39. 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






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






41. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






48. 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.






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






50. 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