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CSET Subtest III: Human Development - 2

Subjects : cset, teaching
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1. Mother's age - Birth complications for younger & older mothers - Mother's nutrition






2. Children believe that their thoughts can cause actions whether or not the experiences have a casual relationship - when I move the clouds move - god moves - sun moves - wind currents move






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






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






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






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






7. 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






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






9. Think about thinking occurs in the concrete operations period - a child;s awareness of knowing about one's own knowledge






10. 12-18 years old - Puberty - Growth spurts and concomitant clumsiness






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






12. At about 18 months






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






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






16. The infant becomes anxious before the caregiver leaves and is upset during their absence






17. 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






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






19. Play is a social activity children engage in just for...






20. Mental structure in which childrens knowledge is ordered into






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






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






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






24. Sensorimotor - preoperational - concrete operations - formal operations

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25. 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






26. 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






27. 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






28. 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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29. Ages 13 to adult in which morality is judged by abstract principles rather than existing rules that govern society and looking into oneself - Involves working out a personal code of ethics. Allows for the possibility of noncompliance with society's r






30. The tendency of the child to focus on only one piece of information at a time while disregarding all others






31. 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






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

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






34. 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






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






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






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






38. 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






39. Trust vs. Mistrust - infancy to 1st year - Physical comfort - minimal fear and low apprehension about the future. Sets stage for life long expectation that world is good. The absence of trust can result in eaving the infant feeeling suspicious - guar






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






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






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






43. Alcohol - Nicotine - Drugs






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






45. Formation of: body parts - major organs






46. 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






47. Children respond automatically since they have formed an association between a stimulus and the response






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






49. Considerable interest in - Struggle with eating disorders possible






50. 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






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