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






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






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






4. 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






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






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






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






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

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9. 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






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






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






12. A study found that children could be described with 9 characteristics they then grouped into 3






13. Sensorimotor - preoperational - concrete operations - formal operations

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






15. Tag - chasing - wrestling






16. Condition of significantly sub - average intelligence combined with deficiencies in adaptive behavior; implies an inability to perform at least some of the ordinary tasks of daily living skills; IQ of 0-70 in categories of mild - moderate - severe -






17. Child uses caregiver as secure base from which to explore environment - example - Child freely separates from parent to play






18. 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






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






20. 1. Teachers must recognize that children internalize what is right and wrong based upon their basic values and sense of self. 2. Teachers must recognize the sequential foundation upon which higher moral principles are based. 3. Teachers must recogniz






21. Child readily separates from parent - Actively avoids parent upon reunion






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






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






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






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






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

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27. 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






28. 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.






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






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






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






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






33. 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.






34. 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






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






36. 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






37. 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.






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






39. Considerable interest in - Struggle with eating disorders possible






40. Temporary support system to support child until task can be mastered alone






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






42. Based on what can be observed and learned through experience in the child's environment. Learning behavior theories: Ivan Pavlov's and John Watson's classical conditioning B.F. Skinner's operant conditioning. Social theories in understanding child de






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






44. Children learn from operating in the environment






45. 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






46. 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






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






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






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






50. 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