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CSET Subtest III: Human Development - 2

Subjects : cset, teaching
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1. Piaget suggested that a child's mind seeks a ________________. At each stage - children form a new way to operate and adapt to the world.






2. Mental retardation via FAS - FAS: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Low birth weight - Unusual facial characteristics






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






4. 1. Provides an alternative to behavior theorists' belief that children are merely passive learners. Children actively move through operational stages.

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






6. 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.






7. Often during elementary school - Have rules - are competitive - pleasurable - Preschool games more about taking turns - Replace around age 12 by practice play and organized sports - Can be engaged in throughout life






8. Varies greatly depending upon these factors: 1. The child 2. The experience 3. Its frequency 4. What is done about it

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9. Tag - chasing - wrestling






10. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning through the salvation of dogs on the ringing of a bell.






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






12. 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






13. Be consistent and write down predictable outlines - schedules - and deadlines - Demonstrate and model appropriate behavior - giving positive reinforcement - Talk slowly - making eye contact when possible - and keep conversations brief - Keep peripher






14. 12-18 years old - Puberty - Growth spurts and concomitant clumsiness






15. The infant shows insecurity and signs of being disoriented






16. Children who don't fall into an easy/difficult/cautious category have...






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






18. Stresses importance of advancing learning via observing & modeling the: behaviors - attitudes - emotional reactions of others

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19. 2 most common feelings a child presents surrounding abuse






20. Sensorimotor - preoperational - concrete operations - formal operations

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21. Bruises - Sores - Burns & Child's vague or reluctant response about where they originated






22. Birth defects - Premature birth - Low birth weight - Neurological disturbances - High startle rate - Learning disabilities - Slowed motor development






23. Refers to the match between a child's temperament and environmental demands the child must deal with






24. Collective set of inborn traits help to construct a child's approach to the world






25. 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






26. Autonomy vs. Shame and doubt (1-3yrs) - virtue - Will - Central issue: Can I act on my own? toddler learns how to explore - experiment - make mistakes and test limits to gain self independence of self reliance -






27. Ages 4 to 10 in which children obey because they're parents tell them to and fear consequences - Kohlberg's stage of moral development in which rewards and punishments dominate moral thinking






28. According to the Individuals with disabilities Act or IDEA all children with disabilities are guaranteed a free - appropriate publec education.






29. Lack of parenting skills - Economic stressors - Lack of education - Repetition of generational family abuse






30. 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






31. Children are not equipped: physically - emotionally - socially - compared to adult caregivers






32. Piaget quantified the __________________ - suggesting that there are predictable and orderly developmental accomplishments. Children can be tested at each stage to verify their level of cognitive understanding.






33. A learning disability characterized by substandard reading achievement due to the inability of the brain to process symbols; also known as a developmental reading disorder. Skip or reverse words. Confuses left and right reading.






34. Match between a child's temperament and environment or demands on child - Ex: quiet child in boisterous family - Ex: active child in scholarly family >






35. The 4th of Piaget's periods: beginning from 11 years. Form of intelligence in which higher level mental operations make possible logical reasoning with respect to abstract and hypothetical events and not merely concrete objects. Hypothetical Deductiv






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






37. Using objects to make something - Combines sensorimotor movements and creation/construction of something - Toddlers & preschoolers






38. 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






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






40. Transformation of symbols into make - believe play - Pretending helps to build a child's imagination - Imagination boundless at this time - Preschool years






41. Mother's age - Birth complications for younger & older mothers - Mother's nutrition






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






43. Development is motivated by the search for a stable balance toward effective adaptations






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






45. The distance between a child's actual performance and a child's potential performance






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






47. Birth to 2 years old - Grow faster in this period than any other






48. Formation of: body parts - major organs






49. Play is critical to _____ advancement in children






50. Formulating a specific hypothesis from any given general theory - what might be