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CSET Subtest III: Human Development - 2

Subjects : cset, teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Temporary support system to support child until task can be mastered alone






2. Children observe adult repeatedly punching & knocking down inflated doll - Later - children imitated aggressive behavior in classroom






3. Considerable interest in - Struggle with eating disorders possible






4. A conceptual tool that allows a child to recognize that when altering the appearance of an object the basic properties do not change






5. Sensorimotor movements manipulating objects in order to receive pleasure - Begins during infancy - Involves repetition of behavior/muscle movement - Can be engaged in throughout life






6. 1. Secure Attachment 2. Anxious - Resistant Attachment 3. Anxious - Avoidant Attachment 4. Disorganized - Disoriented Attachment






7. Infancy - Birth to 2 years - infants physical response to the immediate surroundings - Infants learn of their environments through sensation and movement. Egocentrism - infants are the center of their universe.






8. Formation of: body parts - major organs






9. Language development; disagreed with Skinner about language acquisition - stated there is an infinite # of sentences in a language - humans have an inborn native ability to develop language






10. Mental structure in which childrens knowledge is ordered into






11. Type of play begins during infancy with sensorimotor movements manipulating objects on order to receive pleasure






12. Good way to evaluate child's body fat is to review their...






13. Occurs when children take existing schemes and adjust them to fit their experience piano/keyboard






14. Early childhood - 2 to 7 years - Egocentric focus on symbolic thought and imagination - This stage lasts from about two to seven years of age. During this stage - children get better at symbolic thought - but they can't yet reason. According to Piage






15. WISC. IQ test designed for school - age children. Test assesses potential in many areas - including vocabulary - knowledge - memory - spatial comprehension






16. Much of what we know about how children think feel and respond to the world come from him. His theory states that children predictable and orderly stages of cognitive development and at each stage they form a new way to operate and adapt to the world

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17. Children mentally connect specific experiences whether or not there is a logical casual relationship






18. The infant readily separates from the caregiver and actively avoids the parent upon return






19. Vygotsky believed _____ is an essential aspect of cultural development and that _____ growth and language are _____ based






20. Belief in the ability to do things on one's own






21. Refers to children believing that non - living objects have lifelike qualities






22. The temporary support system from a teacher or older peer to support the child until the task can be mastered alone






23. Developed with Physical structures to produce sounds - cognitive structures to produce thought process - and social structures to experience language through learning and practicing.






24. 1. Child is physically injured by other than accidental means 2. child is subjected to willful cruelty or unjustifiable punishment 3. child is abused or exploited sexually 4. child is neglected by a parent or caretaker who fails to provide adequate f






25. By understanding Piaget's stages of cognitive development - teachers can avoid presenting material in the classroom that is beyond the...

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26. 1. Teachers can use behavior modification in the classroom as a learning tool (altering the environment or situation to produce a more favorable outcome) 2. Teachers can reinforce positive behavior to produce subsequent desirable behaviors (e.g. - po






27. Altering the environment or situation to produce a more favorable outcome






28. Vygotsky - Every function in a child's cultural development appears twice -- when?






29. 12: girls taller/boys weigh more - 13/14: boys taller & weigh more - 18: boys 4' taller 20 lbs heavier - Acceleration large motor physical strength in boys - Clumsy initially -- fast growth arms/legs - Quickly acquire ease of movement






30. 12-18 years old - Puberty - Growth spurts and concomitant clumsiness






31. Children learn from operating in the environment






32. The infant uses the caregiver as the secure base to explore the environment






33. Transformations in a child's thought - language - and intelligence. Theories: 1. Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development 2. Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development 3. Multi - theoretical perspectives of language - intelligence - and children with spe






34. A collective set of inborn traits that help to construct a child's approach to the world






35. Home environment influences much of a child's _____. Diets of minority families and socioeconomically deprived children are especially ____.






36. Pioneer of operant conditioning who believed that everything we do is determined by our past history of rewards and punishments. he is famous for use of his operant conditioning aparatus which he used to study schedules of reinforcement on pidgeons a






37. Personality develops through a series of conflicts that are influenced by society. Eight Stages of age specific crisis we pass through in order to create an equilibrium between our self and society. Turning Points.

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38. Behaviorism; emphasis on external behaviors of people and their reactions on a given situation; famous for Little Albert study in which baby was taught to fear a white rat






39. Mood - generally - Environment - Activity - Threshold for reacting to stimulation






40. Environmental agents that can cause abnormalities in a fetus - Prevent or modify normal cell division - Danger - thus - greatest during embryonic stage (2-8 weeks)






41. Children make errors in their thinking because they cannot understand that an operation moves in more than one direction






42. Middle childhood - 7 to 11 years - mastery of conservation the child begins to think logically - (7-11 yrs) Children understand conservation - less egocentrism - understand hierarchal classification - can focus on multiple aspects at a time. Children






43. While 1 or 2 symptoms do not necessarily mean a child is abused - some common signs are...






44. Easy (flexible) - Difficult (active or feisty) - Slow- to - warm - up (cautious)






45. 2 most common feelings a child presents surrounding abuse






46. Drawing conclusions from specific examples to make a general conclusion - even when the conclusion is not accurate






47. Poor hygiene - E.g. - soiled clothes - dirty hair - body odor - Poor nutrition - E.g. - excessive hunger - weight loss






48. ndustry vs. Inferiority (6 years - puberty) - Mastering knowledge and intellectual skills - enthusiastic about learning - imagination - Inferiority if feelings of incompetence and unproductiveness arise. If inferiority out weights industry - low self






49. Remember Zone of Proximal Development - what can they do on their own - what can they do with help






50. Temperament traits are _____ in development of _____ and way a child shows _____ responses.