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CSET Subtest III: Human Development - 2

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1. 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.






2. Through repetition (and based upon the child's experience) - learning is predictable - Teachers can help children be successful by making their world more orderly and predictable - Teachers will recognize that a child's learned experiences can accou






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






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






5. Children learn from operating in the environment






6. 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






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






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






9. 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






10. 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






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






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






13. 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






14. Come from both heredity and environment. Many typical changes during childhood are related to maturation. Individual differences tend to increase with age






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






16. Birth to 2 years old - Grow faster in this period than any other






17. Tag - chasing - wrestling






18. Toddlers and preschoolers use objects to make something






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






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






21. 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.






22. At about 18 months






23. 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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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






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






31. Personality develops through a series of conflicts that are influenced by society. Eight Stages of age specific crisis we pass through in order to create an equilibrium between our self and society. Turning Points.

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






33. Bruises - Sores - Burns & Child's vague or reluctant response about where they originated






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






36. 2 most common feelings a child presents surrounding abuse






37. By understanding Piaget's stages of cognitive development - teachers can avoid presenting material in the classroom that is beyond the...

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38. Think about thinking occurs in the concrete operations period - a child;s awareness of knowing about one's own knowledge






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






40. 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






41. Educational Implications of Language Development: Teachers must be aware that the process of language development is multifaceted - including...






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






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






45. Miscarriage - Low birth weight - Poor respiratory functioning






46. Mental retardation via FAS - FAS: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Low birth weight - Unusual facial characteristics






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






48. Infant shows - Insecurity - Signs of being disoriented






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






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






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