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CLEP Human Growth And Development
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1. Suggested children are born into world with empty minds - environment shapes them
Robert Sternberg
5 psychosexual stages
habituation method
Locke
2. The generation of adults who simultaneously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children
neglect
sandwich generation
basic emotions
Howard Gardner
3. 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
semantics
sensitive period
identity moratorium
Uri Bronfenbrenner
4. Stage of development when organism is most vulnerable to teratogens.
Lev Vygotsky
sensitive period
embryo
Locke
5. Characteristic of the thought of a preoperational child. children in this stage tend to project human qualities into inanimate objects
normative approach
Diana Baumrind
triarchic theory of intelligence
animistic reasoning
6. This action during pregnancy may be associated with poor academic performance by the child later on
assimilation
metacognition
maternal smoking
neglect
7. Proposed the 5 stages of perspective taking: Egocentrism - Assume one perspective is right - Understands intention - Understands perspective of the larger social group
Robert Selman
memory
characteristics of autism
presbyopia
8. 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.
instinctive drift
Howard Gardner
zone of proximal development
scripts
9. When more categories are added to one's self-description
reaction range theory of intelligence
first spoken word
Locke
self-concept differentiation
10. Infant who appears withdrawn - depressed - and is losing all interest in the world is expressing symptoms of this
imitation
scripts
social deprivation
characteristics of autism
11. 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
sensitive period
affiliation motive
Uri Bronfenbrenner
exosystem
12. Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level
affiliation motive
Robert Selman
scaffolding
social deprivation
13. Occurs between 11 and 13 months
first spoken word
Lev Vygotsky
metacognition
semantics
14. Child has smaller-than normal brain leading to other disabilities
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
Diana Baumrind
semantics
characteristics of autism
15. When infants display a decrease in interest toward an object
Lewis Terman
superego
sandwich generation
habituation method
16. Autism usually becomes evident between ___ and ___ months
12 and 30
neglect
Lawrence Kohlberg
bulimia
17. The basis for most human learning
imitation
learning set
presbyopia
concrete operations stage
18. Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
instrumental aggression
sandwich generation
habituation method
Howard Gardner
19. Occurs when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
mental operations
sandwich generation
neglect
overregularization
20. First of Piaget's. lasts from birth to acquisition of language. cognitive devmt begins and children learn causality - object permanence towards end
semantics
habituation method
sensorimotor stage
embryo
21. 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
maternal smoking
Lev Vygotsky
semantics
Howard Gardner
22. 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.
Locke
bulimia
vision
Albert Bandura
23. 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.
maternal smoking
Rousseau
habituation method
Moro reflex
24. In Piaget's theory these are flexible and reversible
assimilation
mental operations
vision
sensorimotor stage
25. Gifted children grow up to be more well-adjusted - more successful - healthier adults
Diana Baumrind
Lewis Terman
ethology
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
26. Psychologist who defined 3 styles of parenting: authoritarian - authoritative - permissive.
ethology
zone of proximal development
Diana Baumrind
vision
27. 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.
formal operations stage
characteristics of autism
Uri Bronfenbrenner
Susan Carey
28. Term coined by animal psychologists Marian Breland Bailey and Keller Breland; tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement
Robert Selman
instinctive drift
relational aggression
mental operations
29. The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes - words - and sentences in a given language; the study of meaning
Locke
fast mapping
semantics
preoperation stage
30. 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).
metacognition
Robert Sternberg
exosystem
animistic reasoning
31. Form of indirect aggression - prevalent in girls - involving spreading rumors - gossiping - and nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
scaffolding
relational aggression
assimilation
mental operations
32. The principle that development proceeds from the center of the body outward
John Bowlby
proximodistal development
zone of proximal development
Lawrence Kohlberg
33. Devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative); proposed three components of adult love: intimacy - commitment - and passion
exosystem
presbyopia
Lewis Terman
Robert Sternberg
34. According to Piaget - we possess these to create abstract - generalized account of repeated events
maternal smoking
imitation
zone of proximal development
scripts
35. When children are most sensitive to the effects of stimuli. different ages for different stimuli.
preoperation stage
sensitive period
Moro reflex
functional play
36. The average number of MORPHEMES
intermodal perception
Lawrence Kohlberg
instrumental aggression
mean length of utterance
37. 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
prosocial behavior
animistic reasoning
exosystem
Uri Bronfenbrenner
38. Third of Piaget's (7-11). children learn conservation and mathematical transformations.
Locke
Moro reflex
concrete operations stage
relational aggression
39. Piaget's notion of adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
accommodation
identity moratorium
habituation method
Howard Gardner
40. Father of attachment theory
John Bowlby
preoperation stage
characteristics of autism
scaffolding
41. Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment - using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
Rousseau
fast mapping
Harry Harlow
intermodal perception
42. 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
memory
functional play
metacognition
formal operations stage
43. Sense that is least well-developed at birth
vision
Albert Bandura
affiliation motive
relational aggression
44. Those with this disease are often normal weight
accommodation
sandwich generation
John Bowlby
bulimia
45. This causes more deaths in children than physical abuse
sandwich generation
metacognition
Lewis Terman
neglect
46. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.
scripts
bulimia
superego
metacognition
47. Fourth of Piaget's. characterized by the ability to perform hypothetical reasoning and think abstractly.
animistic reasoning
12 and 30
fetal alcohol syndrom symptom
formal operations stage
48. 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
sensorimotor stage
normative approach
triarchic theory of intelligence
amniocentesis
49. Term for practical intelligence
Moro reflex
vision
street smarts
maternal smoking
50. 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.
preoperation stage
Lewis Terman
functional play
assimilation