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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Proposed that challenging children with complex words helps them to develop their language more rapidly.
instrumental aggression
habituation method
conscientiousness
Noam Chomsky
2. 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
John Bowlby
sensitive period
Diana Baumrind
Howard Gardner
3. Unresponsiveness to others - oc behaviors - anger outburst - social avoidance - regression in behavior/language (4x more prevalent in boys)
characteristics of autism
instrumental aggression
Susan Carey
12 and 30
4. Those with this disease are often normal weight
bulimia
Rousseau
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
preoperation stage
5. 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.
Albert Bandura
bulimia
imitation
preoperation stage
6. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
Noam Chomsky
formal operations stage
sandwich generation
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
7. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
instinctive drift
presbyopia
amniocentesis
intermodal perception
8. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
sensitive period
proximodistal development
Lewis Terman
characteristics of autism
9. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
animistic reasoning
embryo
Harry Harlow
10. When more categories are added to one's self-description
mental operations
self-concept differentiation
functional play
chorionic villus sampling
11. Ability to become increasingly more effective in solving problems as more problems are solved. term coined by Harry Harlow.
learning set
fast mapping
Lawrence Kohlberg
metacognition
12. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
amniocentesis
instinctive drift
characteristics of autism
overregularization
13. 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
normative approach
triarchic theory of intelligence
Lev Vygotsky
formal operations stage
14. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
characteristics of autism
Uri Bronfenbrenner
concrete operations stage
assimilation
15. 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
affiliation motive
bulimia
street smarts
imitation
16. Suggested that children are born good - bad experiences lead to negative changes
Rousseau
chorionic villus sampling
exosystem
basic emotions
17. 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
sensitive period
Robert Sternberg
functional play
superego
18. The understanding that a certain object or event can be simultaneously perceived by more than one sensory system
intermodal perception
memory
ethology
instrumental aggression
19. 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
characteristics of autism
pragmatics
assimilation
Lev Vygotsky
20. The average number of MORPHEMES
reaction range theory of intelligence
mental operations
mean length of utterance
instrumental aggression
21. Joy - Anger - Fear - Surprise - Interest - Disgust - Distress - Sadness
social deprivation
CNS and heart
basic emotions
animistic reasoning
22. 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
mental operations
assimilation
memory
sensitive period
23. 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
Rousseau
Diana Baumrind
ethology
Robert Selman
24. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
amniocentesis
Harry Harlow
superego
pragmatics
25. This system and organ are most susceptible to teratogens after conception
CNS and heart
identity moratorium
fast mapping
formal operations stage
26. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
overregularization
basic emotions
habituation method
preoperation stage
27. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
reaction range theory of intelligence
Howard Gardner
Locke
maternal smoking
28. 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
Robert Selman
preoperation stage
concrete operations stage
prosocial behavior
29. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
functional play
Locke
habituation method
12 and 30
30. Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process
presbyopia
Noam Chomsky
normative approach
maternal smoking
31. Psychologist to propose the Ecological Systems Theory - views child as developing within a complex system of relationships from microsystem to macrosystem
Uri Bronfenbrenner
animistic reasoning
Lewis Terman
concrete operations stage
32. 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.
John Bowlby
scaffolding
zone of proximal development
concrete operations stage
33. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
assimilation
bulimia
first spoken word
scaffolding
34. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
sandwich generation
social deprivation
characteristics of autism
imitation
35. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
Uri Bronfenbrenner
bulimia
Lewis Terman
embryo
36. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
12 and 30
Diana Baumrind
Uri Bronfenbrenner
37. Father of attachment theory
John Bowlby
Lev Vygotsky
vision
exosystem
38. Big 5 trait that increases for both sexes over their lifetimes
conscientiousness
habituation method
functional play
characteristics of autism
39. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
proximodistal development
neglect
Lawrence Kohlberg
memory
40. 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
superego
Lawrence Kohlberg
intermodal perception
instinctive drift
41. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
pragmatics
CNS and heart
sensorimotor stage
scaffolding
42. 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.
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
preoperation stage
Uri Bronfenbrenner
Moro reflex
43. We don't inherit a specific IQ; rather we have a range of academic potential
animistic reasoning
Diana Baumrind
presbyopia
reaction range theory of intelligence
44. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
characteristics of autism
functional play
instrumental aggression
metacognition
45. 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.
amniocentesis
Robert Sternberg
pragmatics
maternal smoking
46. The basis for most human learning
characteristics of autism
fast mapping
scaffolding
imitation
47. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
Robert Selman
Locke
social deprivation
conscientiousness
48. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
Harry Harlow
memory
sensorimotor stage
Diana Baumrind
49. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
first spoken word
Robert Selman
prosocial behavior
identity moratorium
50. 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.
CNS and heart
Moro reflex
maternal smoking
presbyopia