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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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1. 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






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






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






4. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






17. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness






18. Term for practical intelligence






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






20. 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).






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






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






23. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






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






25. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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






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






34. Those with this disease are often normal weight






35. 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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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






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






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






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






46. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






47. 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.






48. 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






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






50. Sense that is least well-developed at birth