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CLEP Human Growth And Development

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






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






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






4. Term for practical intelligence






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






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






7. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months






8. Father of attachment theory






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






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






11. The appropriate use of language in different contexts






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






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






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






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






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






17. Occurs between 11 and 13 months






18. 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.






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






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






21. 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.






22. 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






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






24. 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






25. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value






26. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse






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






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






29. 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).






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






31. Those with this disease are often normal weight






32. 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






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






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






35. 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






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






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






39. 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.






40. 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






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






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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






50. 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