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CSET Subtest III: Human Development - 2

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






2. 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.






3. 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






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






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






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






8. The ability to draw conclusions about a relationship between two objects by knowing the relationship to a third object






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






10. 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






11. ____ theorists agree that ____ activities serve a valuable function in the development of important ____ and ____ skills in children.






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






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






14. Mental structure in which childrens knowledge is ordered into






15. 1. release physical energy 2. gain mastery over their bodies 3. acquire new motor skills 4. form better relationships among peers 5. try out new social rules 6. advance cognitive development 7. practice and explore new competencies






16. 12-18 years old - Puberty - Growth spurts and concomitant clumsiness






17. 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 -






18. 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






19. 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






20. The way children incorporate new information with existing schemes in order to form a new cognitive structure - fitting the new knowledge into a template of existing schemes






21. Most children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) show symptoms of both inattention and hyperactivity - but there are some children who are inattentive and do not show signs of hyperactivity; these children have Attention Deficit Dis






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






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






24. Considerable interest in - Struggle with eating disorders possible






25. 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






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






27. At about 18 months






28. 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.






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






30. Modern descendent of the first successful intelligence test that measures general intelligence and four factors verbal reasoning - quantitative reasoning - spatial reasoning - and short - term memory.






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






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






33. 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






34. 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






35. Children transform symbols into make believe play also pretending






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






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






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






39. Mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience - solve problems - and use knowledge to adapt to new situations Traditional IQ - Gardners's Multiple Intelligence and Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence.






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






41. 1. Use of mediators for learning - A connection/intermediary between the child and that which is to be learned - E.g. - an adult or older child 2. Emphasis of language and shared activity for learning 3. Shared activity






42. 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.






43. A successful childhood counseling treatment b/c it allows children to feel less threatened while working out conflicts and expressing their unresolved feelings






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






45. Children learn from operating in the environment






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






47. Hard of Hearing. Appear lost or confused.






48. 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






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






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







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