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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






2. 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






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






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






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






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 Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






13. 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






14. 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






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






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






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






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






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






20. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






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






23. 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.






24. 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






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






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






27. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






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






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






31. Those with this disease are often normal weight






32. 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






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






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






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






36. 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.






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






38. 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






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






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






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






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






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






44. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






45. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






47. 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).






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






49. 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






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







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