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CSET Subtest III: Human Development - 2

Subjects : cset, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Come from both heredity and environment. Many typical changes during childhood are related to maturation. Individual differences tend to increase with age






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






3. 1. Physical Abuse 2. Physical Neglect 3. Sexual Abuse 4. Emotional Maltreatment






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






5. Identity vs. Identity Confusion (10-20 years - adolescence) - Finding out who they are - what they are all about - where they are going in life. - Confronted with new roles and adult statuses (vocational and romantic) - Identity confusion occurs when






6. This is the ability of a child to arrange objects in logical progression






7. 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.






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






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

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10. Tag - chase - wrestling - Begins about the end of early childhood - Most popular during middle childhood






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






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






13. 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






14. Strongly improves child's problem - solving abilities - E.g. reading buddies






15. 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 -






16. Allow the student to sit behind others so that the student won't disturb others - and teach the student to tap his pencil on a sleeve or leg instead of the table






17. Considerable interest in - Struggle with eating disorders possible






18. Children with a perceptual - motor disability have difficult with coordination and may often appear clumsy or disoriented - Sometimes their hands are in constant motion and may get in the way of their activity






19. Children transform symbols into make believe play also pretending






20. Involves a given set of rules and declines around age 12 usually replaced with organized sports






21. 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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22. 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.






23. 2-6 years old - Much of baby fat disappears as arms/legs grow longer - Pot belly disappears - internal organs no longer growing faster than body cavity - Decrease in weight is attributed to - walking - fatty tissues start growing at slower rate






24. Piaget suggested that a child's mind seeks a ________________. At each stage - children form a new way to operate and adapt to the world.






25. Mandatory Child Abuse Reporting Law - ______________ are mandated reporters of child abuse






26. 12-18 years old - Puberty - Growth spurts and concomitant clumsiness






27. Improves physical strength & coordination - If successful then self - esteem can be highly boosted via approval of peers






28. Boys/girls about same weight/height - Girls growing only slightly slower than boys






29. Sensorimotor - preoperational - concrete operations - formal operations

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






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






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






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






34. Age - inappropriate sexual behavior or knowledge - Difficulty walking or sitting - Sudden onset of wetting or inflicted self - harm






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






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






37. Girls more fatty tissue than boys - Boys more muscle tissue - Height/weight about same - just distributed differently - Boys might tend to be slightly taller/heavier






38. 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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39. Allow them to work through whatever range of feelings they have






40. 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






41. Through repetition (and based upon the child's experience) - learning is predictable - Teachers can help children be successful by making their world more orderly and predictable - Teachers will recognize that a child's learned experiences can accou






42. 1. Functional 2. Constructive 3. Pretend or Imaginative 4. Rough - and - Tumble 5. Games with Rules






43. By 10-12 girls/boys same height/weight - Vast differences gross fine motor skills - Boys' leg/arm muscle coordination stronger - Run faster; jump - catch - throw - kick farther - Girls: stronger fine motor skills - More coordinated hand - manipulatio






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






45. Initiative vs. Guilt (3-5 years - preschool years) - - As challenges occur - initiative is needed for purposeful behavior - responsibility for body - behavior - toys - pets - etc...The child may feel like anything he does may dissappoint people aroun






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






47. Difficulty paying attention - Easily distracted - Show hyperactivity - Become frustrated easily - Difficulty controlling muscle or motor activity (constantly moving) - Difficulty staying on task - succumbing to whatever attracts their attention - Sho






48. 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






49. Child becomes upset when caregiver leaves - is upset during absence






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