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CSET Subtest III: Human Development - 2

Subjects : cset, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Stresses importance of advancing learning via observing & modeling the: behaviors - attitudes - emotional reactions of others


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






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






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






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






6. 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






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






8. At about 18 months






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






10. 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






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






12. Tag - chasing - wrestling






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






14. Age - inappropriate sexual behavior or knowledge - Difficulty walking or sitting - Sudden onset of wetting or inflicted self - harm






15. Using objects to make something - Combines sensorimotor movements and creation/construction of something - Toddlers & preschoolers






16. 12-18 years old - Puberty - Growth spurts and concomitant clumsiness






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






18. Children learn from operating in the environment






19. 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






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






21. Preconventional - conventional - postconventional


22. Hard of Hearing. Appear lost or confused.






23. 7-11 years old - Many children grow about 2'/year






24. Initiative vs. Guilt (3-5 years - preschool years) - - As challenges occur - initiative is needed for purposeful behavior - responsibility for body - behavior - toys - pets - etc...The child may feel like anything he does may dissappoint people aroun






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






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






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






28. A learning disability characterized by substandard reading achievement due to the inability of the brain to process symbols; also known as a developmental reading disorder. Skip or reverse words. Confuses left and right reading.






29. 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






30. 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






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






32. 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


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






34. Toddlers and preschoolers use objects to make something






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






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






37. 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.






38. Poor hygiene - E.g. - soiled clothes - dirty hair - body odor - Poor nutrition - E.g. - excessive hunger - weight loss






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






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






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






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






43. 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






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






45. The purposeful process by which a person generates logical and coherent ideas - evaluates situations - and reaches conclusions.






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






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






48. Mental structure in which childrens knowledge is ordered into






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






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