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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






2. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






3. 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






4. Term for practical intelligence






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






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






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






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






13. A technique of detecting fetal abnormalities that involves examination of placental tissue extracted from the chorion






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Father of attachment theory






21. 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).






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






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






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






25. 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.






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






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






28. The basis for most human learning






29. 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






30. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






31. 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.






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






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






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






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






37. 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






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






39. 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






40. 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






41. Those with this disease are often normal weight






42. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value