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CSET Subtest III: Human Development - 2

Subjects : cset, teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. Estimates indicate ___% of children in US follow all the dietary guidelines.






3. At about 18 months






4. 7-11 years old - Many children grow about 2'/year






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






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






7. 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.






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






9. 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






10. 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






11. A conceptual tool that allows a child to recognize that when altering the appearance of an object the basic properties do not change






12. 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






13. 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






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






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






16. 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






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


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






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






20. Children believe that their thoughts can cause actions whether or not the experiences have a casual relationship - when I move the clouds move - god moves - sun moves - wind currents move






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






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






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






24. Varies greatly depending upon these factors: 1. The child 2. The experience 3. Its frequency 4. What is done about it


25. 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.






26. 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






27. 12-18 years old - Puberty - Growth spurts and concomitant clumsiness






28. Children learn from operating in the environment






29. Children mentally connect specific experiences whether or not there is a logical casual relationship






30. 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






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






32. Sensorimotor - preoperational - concrete operations - formal operations


33. Young children cannot differentiate between their own perspectives and feelings and someone elses






34. 2 most common feelings a child presents surrounding abuse






35. 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






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






37. 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






38. 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.


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






40. 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


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






42. Children imitate behavior through: socialization - by learning gender roles - by self - reinforcement - by self - efficacy - and - via other aspects of personality


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






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






45. 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






46. 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






47. Allow them to work through whatever range of feelings they have






48. Good way to evaluate child's body fat is to review their...






49. Ages 4 to 10 in which children obey because they're parents tell them to and fear consequences - Kohlberg's stage of moral development in which rewards and punishments dominate moral thinking






50. An internalized set of rules influencing the feelings - thoughts and behavior of an individual in deciding what is right and wrong.