Test your basic knowledge |

CSET Subtest III: Human Development - 2

Subjects : cset, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. Mental structure in which childrens knowledge is ordered into






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






3. Considerable interest in - Struggle with eating disorders possible






4. 12-18 years old - Puberty - Growth spurts and concomitant clumsiness






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






6. 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






7. 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






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






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






10. Mood - generally - Environment - Activity - Threshold for reacting to stimulation






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. Children transform symbols into make believe play also pretending






16. 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






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






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






19. The infant shows insecurity and signs of being disoriented






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






21. Varies greatly depending upon these factors: 1. The child 2. The experience 3. Its frequency 4. What is done about it

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


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






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






24. 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






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






26. According to the Individuals with disabilities Act or IDEA all children with disabilities are guaranteed a free - appropriate publec education.






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






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






29. Play is critical to _____ advancement in children






30. Miscarriage - Low birth weight - Poor respiratory functioning






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. An internalized set of rules influencing the feelings - thoughts and behavior of an individual in deciding what is right and wrong.






33. Toddlers and preschoolers use objects to make something






34. 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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






42. 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






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






44. 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






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






46. 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






47. 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






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






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






50. 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