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CSET Subtest III: Human Development - 2

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1. 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






2. 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






3. 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.






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






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






6. By 10-12 girls/boys same height/weight - Vast differences gross fine motor skills - Boys' leg/arm muscle coordination stronger - Run faster; jump - catch - throw - kick farther - Girls: stronger fine motor skills - More coordinated hand - manipulatio






7. Secure attachment is fundamental to a child's ability to emotionally and biologically self - regulate






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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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14. 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






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






16. 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






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






18. 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






19. Tag - chase - wrestling - Begins about the end of early childhood - Most popular during middle childhood






20. Formation of: body parts - major organs






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






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






23. Recognition that objects and events continue to exist even when they are not visible






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






25. 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






26. Miscarriage - Low birth weight - Poor respiratory functioning






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






28. 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






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






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






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

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






34. 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.






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






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






37. 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






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






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






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






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






42. 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






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






44. 1. Functional 2. Constructive 3. Pretend or Imaginative 4. Rough - and - Tumble 5. Games with Rules






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






46. 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






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






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






49. Toddlers and preschoolers use objects to make something






50. Play is a social activity children engage in just for...







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