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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






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






3. 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






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






5. The average number of MORPHEMES






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






7. 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.






8. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






17. Sense that is least well-developed at birth






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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






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






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






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






28. A period of time in the development of identity in which a person delays making a decision about important issues but actively explores various alternatives






29. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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






36. 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






37. 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.






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






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






40. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






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






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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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