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CSET Subtest III: Human Development - 2

Subjects : cset, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. 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






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






3. 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






4. Ages 10 -13 in which children are more concerned about the opinions of their peers. Second level of Kohlberg's stages of moral development in which the child's behavior is governed by conforming to the society's norms of behavior






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






6. 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






7. 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






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






9. 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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10. Alcohol - Nicotine - Drugs






11. Autonomy vs. Shame and doubt (1-3yrs) - virtue - Will - Central issue: Can I act on my own? toddler learns how to explore - experiment - make mistakes and test limits to gain self independence of self reliance -






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






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






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






15. Children who don't fall into an easy/difficult/cautious category have...






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






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






18. 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






19. 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






20. 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.






21. 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






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






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






24. Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence - creative intelligence - and practical intelligence






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






26. Children observe adult repeatedly punching & knocking down inflated doll - Later - children imitated aggressive behavior in classroom






27. 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






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






29. 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






30. 2 most common feelings a child presents surrounding abuse






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






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






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






34. 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






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






36. 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






37. 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






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






39. Behaviorism; emphasis on external behaviors of people and their reactions on a given situation; famous for Little Albert study in which baby was taught to fear a white rat






40. 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






41. 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






42. 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






43. 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






44. Belief in the ability to do things on one's own






45. Infant shows - Insecurity - Signs of being disoriented






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






48. 1. Child is physically injured by other than accidental means 2. child is subjected to willful cruelty or unjustifiable punishment 3. child is abused or exploited sexually 4. child is neglected by a parent or caretaker who fails to provide adequate f






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






50. The child uses words and images to form mental representations to remember objects without being physically present