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CSET Subtest III: Human Development - 2

Subjects : cset, teaching
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1. 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






2. Tag - chasing - wrestling






3. Estimates indicate ___% of children in US follow all the dietary guidelines.






4. Refers to children believing that non - living objects have lifelike qualities






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






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






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






8. 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






9. 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.






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






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






12. Toddlers and preschoolers use objects to make something






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

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






15. 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






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






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






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






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






20. 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






21. 8 intelligences - intelligence and talent are two different things. Eight intelligences are linguistic - musical - logical - mathematical - spatial - bodily - kinesthetic - interpersonal - naturalistic - existential

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






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






24. 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






25. Considerable interest in - Struggle with eating disorders possible






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






27. 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






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






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






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






31. 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






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






33. 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






34. 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






35. Children in the US consume excess ____ and ____.






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






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






38. 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






39. 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






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






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






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






43. 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.






44. 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






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






46. 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






47. Come from both heredity and environment. Many typical changes during childhood are related to maturation. Individual differences tend to increase with age






48. Children learn from operating in the environment






49. 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






50. 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.