Hello again. I am glad to report I passed Human Growth and Development which I sat for on September 29, 2007, with a score of 62 and felt confident throughout the exam.

Once again I think you should be able to pass this exam with just the Instacert flashcards, as long as you know 90 to 95% of the material. To be safe I also studied the REA book and believed it really helped me to be confident throughout the exam.

It did not hurt that I have also taken and passed Educational Psychology as there is a lot of cross-over between these two exams.

I was concerned about forgetting the research terms such as classical conditioning, independent variables, dependant variables, negative correlation, positive correlation etc, etc. but the good news is there are not that many questions of that type on this exam so don’t get too frustrated if you do not understand them or have trouble remembering them. Just try to get a basic understanding about the different research methods and you should be fine.

I got a little annoyed at all the questions about language development and felt as though someone stuck in a short English exam in on this exam, but the answers are also covered in the flash cards so put extra focus on the language development section.

The list below is the majority of what I recall on the exam and should really be known and understood before attempting this exam.

Freud’s five psychosexual stages.
Kohlberg’s three levels of moral development.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Erikson's 8 stages of development.
Paiget's 4 stages of cognitive development.
Understand the meaning of secure attachment.
Know the different styles of parenting, mainly Authoritarian and Authoritative.
Know what teratogens are and what they harm the most, either the zygote, embryo, or fetus.
Be able to define holophrase syntax, semantics, phoneme, morpheme.
Know how to define a longitudinal research.
Know the definition of habituation.
Be able to define telegraphic speech.
Know how first born children are different than later born children.
Know what gender identify means.


Well, I hope this helps. I am now moving on to Intro to Business Law.

Good luck to you all, Jay


CLEP’S

American Government 62
U.S. History I 58
U.S. History II 64
Intro Psychology 56
Humanities 51
Info Systems & Com App 60
Intro Sociology 73
Principles of Marketing 69
Principles of Management 71
Intro. Educational Psychology 58
Human Growth and Development 62


DSST’S

World Religions

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Brian R. Fey Sr. +
M.S. - Psychology
B.S. - Criminal Justice
A.S. - Administrative Management

Congratulations!

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MCSE (2003k), CCNP, Project+

Congratulations Jay, and thanks for posting the excellent feedback!

Good luck with Business Law.

Take care,
JoAnne

Congratulations on passing and getting a great score!

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Anne, Pursuing BS in Liberal Arts at Excelsior College
Military 40 Credits, FEMA 24 Credits, Comm. College 9 Credits, Microsoft 3 Credits
CLEP - Sociology (59), Spanish (58), A&I Lit (58), HG&D (61), Ed Psy (56)
DSST - MIS (53), Environment & Humanity (58)
ECE - Info Lit (P), Psy A&A (B), FoG (B), Abn Psy (B), Research Methods (A), Soc Psy (C), World Pop (C), Org Beh (C)
PFC - Tech Math I (92)
Total - 121 Credits

I"M FINALLY DONE...WAITING FOR CONFERRAL FROM EC!

thanks so much for sharing AAWESOME!!!... siiiiiigh I just started studying for my cleps.. I"m going to share as much as I can cuz its so damn cool to find so many people helping everyone else out!

,, this one is on my 'list'..so.. again thanks.

I am taking this test on monday. I took 2 practice tests in the REA book yesterday and didn't do so well (just above passing on their scale in the book). I took a test on peterson's (which are more difficult than REA on most CLEP's) and did really well. I know most of the info on IC.
Has anyone who has taken this test find that REA was too in depth for the CLEP? The only other time time that I have noticed that the REA test was more difficult that peterson's and the actual test was A&I Lit. Usually REA tests are right on or a little easier. Just want to make sure I am ready for the test.
Thanks JayAusTex for good feedback

Chuck

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AAS (Electronics), TESC-Done
BA Psychology, TESC-Done & waiting
Tests- Eng. Comp. w/ Essay-51, Principles of Mgmt.-59, Intro. to Soc.-62, US History I-66, US History II-61, Intro. to Psych.-68, Biology-55, A&I Lit.-62, Ed. Psych.-63, Soc. Sci. and History-63, Human Growth & Development-65, American Gov't-64, Tech. Writing-63, HTYH-64, Drug & Alc. Abuse-58, Org. Behavior-67, Prin. of Statistics-62, Intro. World Religion-68, Intro to Computing-403, Ethics-439. Research Methods in Psych.-A, Psych. of Personality TECEP-73, Abnormal Psych TECEP-74, Industrial Psych-71
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I am new to the site and I notice alot of people referring to the IC flashcards but when I do a search nothing comes up ???? I am studying for Human Growth and development