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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. Early childhood - 2 to 7 years - Egocentric focus on symbolic thought and imagination - This stage lasts from about two to seven years of age. During this stage - children get better at symbolic thought - but they can't yet reason. According to Piage






2. 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






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






4. 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






5. 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






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






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






8. 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






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






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






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

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






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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






19. 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.






20. 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






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






22. 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.






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

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24. 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






25. 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






26. 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






27. 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






28. 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






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






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






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

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






34. Play is critical to _____ advancement in children






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






36. Preconventional - conventional - postconventional

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






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






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






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






41. Children actively construct their knowledge through society






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






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






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






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






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. Sensorimotor movements manipulating objects in order to receive pleasure - Begins during infancy - Involves repetition of behavior/muscle movement - Can be engaged in throughout life






48. Considerable interest in - Struggle with eating disorders possible






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






50. Toddlers and preschoolers use objects to make something