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CSET Human Development

Subjects : cset, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Ability to understand others - a people person who has good conversational skills and knows to interact with others






2. Children belive that non - living objects have lifelike qualiies like through imaginary friends. Occurs in the pre - operational stage.






3. The level of moral development that children start out as from ages four to 10. Children avoid wrong - doing so they do not get in trouble. Children realize fairness and understand that people act in their own best interest






4. Child appeals to a powerful force 'God moves the clouds'






5. Realizing that seen objects still exist after being hidden from sight - occurs during the sensori - motor stage






6. Positive mood and able to adapt to new situations






7. Begins at the end of early childhood but popular during mid - childhood like tag - chasing - and wrestling






8. Negative mood and slow to accept change






9. A set of inborn traitrs that help a child approach the world






10. Children have a problem focusing their attention - become frustrated easily and have difficulty controlling muscle and motor activity






11. A child realizes that if A equals B and B equals C - then A equals C. Occurs in the formal operations stage.






12. Children can understand simple concrete rules - wait their turn - sit at tables - will need to be constnatly reminded of rules - follow rules to avoid punishment - become aware over time that there are reasons for rules






13. Development of a child in three phases - state of balance - thought changes and cnoflict ammerges - and through assimilation and accomodation - a more sophisticated form of thought surfaces






14. Occurs during infancy with movements manipulating objects to receive pleasure






15. Children think of the principles of society's laws and norms from ages 13 and up. Individuals think about their inalienable rights (like liberty and pursuit of happiness) and not just the specific laws themselves. Children are willing to stand up and






16. Focuses on ability to use - apply - implment and put something into practice. They are 'street smart'






17. An individual's acceptance of responsibility for their own learning






18. Realiziation that objects can change form (from solid to liquid and back) and still remain the same object - especially during the concrete operational stage






19. The idea of deductive logic - the idea that two concepts or objects have a relationship to each other - especially during the concrete operational stage






20. The way that a child mentally represents and organizes the world. An infant sitting on a high chair drops a plastic cup on the floor thinking someone will pick it up.






21. The idea that behavior is leaerned based upon repetition - association and antiicipation - through thorough repetition - learning can be predictable






22. Realizing that a pile of pennies can contain the same number as an amount of spread out pennies - especially during the concrete operational stage. A child is able to understand numbers - volumes - weight - and matter. Occurs in the concrete operatio






23. Has an ability to understand oneself and effectively direct one's life






24. The ability to think in words and to use langauge to express meaning






25. Having a sensitivity to pitch - emlody - rhythm - and tone






26. The process by which a child incorporates new experience into previous understandings and modifies that experience to include the new information






27. Disabilities in which a child's intelligence does not reflect their low- education skills.






28. Reality is defined by apperance 'When I move - the clouds move with me.'






29. Slowly adapts to changes as they are repeatedly exposed to it






30. The ability to observe patterns in nnature and understand natural and human - made systems






31. Play during elementary school with rules that are competitive and pleasurable - replaced by practice play and organized sports






32. Children who have a difficulty learning because of abormalities such as a mother's use of alcohol or drugs during a pregnancy






33. The support system that a teacher provides to support achild until the task can be mastered alone






34. Children are aware of the ability to store their experieneces in their head as memory. Occurs in the concrete operational stage






35. The ability to think three - dimensionally






36. Infant shows insecurity and signs of being disoriented






37. Children who find it difficult to distinguish between differences in sounds and may not appar to be paying attention in class






38. The idea that a child who has formed secured attachments when they are a child are more likely to be successful in school than those that aren't; these are children whose authority figures have been dependable is more liekly to have trusting - loving






39. Child appeals to causes in nature 'The sun moves the clouds'






40. Middle school students are fully responsible for their own behavior; understand and can remember and can follow the rules






41. Age above 11 in which children can grasp the ideas of algebratic equations - hypothesis in science - and can think for themselves and can solve complex problems






42. A child's tendency to focus on a single piece of information at a time while they are disregarding all others - mostly in the pre - operational stage






43. The act of putting things in order - especially during the concrete operational stage






44. Children and adults interpret a new experience in terms of their previous understandings






45. The ability to carry out mathematical operations






46. The ways individual brains process information - including visual stimuli - is impeded in one way or another






47. How a child thinks of themselves






48. The level of moral development in which children focus on what they are supposed to do from ages 10 to 13. Children are influenced by the behavior of authority figures - like parents and teachers - and seek approval of those figures. Children become






49. The abiity to solve problems using the body and physical skill (surgeons - craftspeople - dancers - athletes)






50. Consists of the ability to create - design - imagine or invent