CLEP Human Growth and
Development Practice Test 2025
Questions and Answers
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - ANSWER✔✔-Thinker who suggested that children are
innately good.
Psychodynamic Theory - ANSWER✔✔-Theory applied to treating bed-wetting in
Johnny's case.
Freud's Ego - ANSWER✔✔-Provides rational ways of coping with frustration.
Freud's Theory of Child Development - ANSWER✔✔-Psychoanalyst.
Identity Crisis - ANSWER✔✔-Erikson's term for a period of serious questioning and
soul-searching.
Social Cognitive Theory - ANSWER✔✔-Children internalize the traits of other people to
form their identities.
Piaget - ANSWER✔✔-Theorist most interested in how children perceive and mentally
represent the world.
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, Ethology - ANSWER✔✔-A biologically oriented theory of development.
Independent Variable - ANSWER✔✔-The variable being manipulated in an experiment.
Cross-Cultural Studies - ANSWER✔✔-Examine the effects of various cultural contexts
on development.
Replication - ANSWER✔✔-The repetition of an experiment by another experimenter at
another time and place.
Experimental Group - ANSWER✔✔-The group in an experiment that receives the
treatment being tested.
Cognitive Development - ANSWER✔✔-A stage theory for studying cognitive
development.
Learning Theory - ANSWER✔✔-A behavioristic method for studying cognition.
Dependent Variable - ANSWER✔✔-The variable being measured in an experiment.
Single-Blind Technique - ANSWER✔✔-An experimental design where subjects do not
know if they are in the experimental or control group.
Double-Blind Technique - ANSWER✔✔-An experimental design where neither the
subjects nor the experimenters know who is in the experimental or control group.
Alfred Binet - ANSWER✔✔-A thinker associated with intelligence testing.
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Development Practice Test 2025
Questions and Answers
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - ANSWER✔✔-Thinker who suggested that children are
innately good.
Psychodynamic Theory - ANSWER✔✔-Theory applied to treating bed-wetting in
Johnny's case.
Freud's Ego - ANSWER✔✔-Provides rational ways of coping with frustration.
Freud's Theory of Child Development - ANSWER✔✔-Psychoanalyst.
Identity Crisis - ANSWER✔✔-Erikson's term for a period of serious questioning and
soul-searching.
Social Cognitive Theory - ANSWER✔✔-Children internalize the traits of other people to
form their identities.
Piaget - ANSWER✔✔-Theorist most interested in how children perceive and mentally
represent the world.
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, Ethology - ANSWER✔✔-A biologically oriented theory of development.
Independent Variable - ANSWER✔✔-The variable being manipulated in an experiment.
Cross-Cultural Studies - ANSWER✔✔-Examine the effects of various cultural contexts
on development.
Replication - ANSWER✔✔-The repetition of an experiment by another experimenter at
another time and place.
Experimental Group - ANSWER✔✔-The group in an experiment that receives the
treatment being tested.
Cognitive Development - ANSWER✔✔-A stage theory for studying cognitive
development.
Learning Theory - ANSWER✔✔-A behavioristic method for studying cognition.
Dependent Variable - ANSWER✔✔-The variable being measured in an experiment.
Single-Blind Technique - ANSWER✔✔-An experimental design where subjects do not
know if they are in the experimental or control group.
Double-Blind Technique - ANSWER✔✔-An experimental design where neither the
subjects nor the experimenters know who is in the experimental or control group.
Alfred Binet - ANSWER✔✔-A thinker associated with intelligence testing.
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