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






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






3. Considerable interest in - Struggle with eating disorders possible






4. Child readily separates from parent - Actively avoids parent upon reunion






5. 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






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






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






8. Stresses importance of advancing learning via observing & modeling the: behaviors - attitudes - emotional reactions of others

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






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






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






12. 2 most common feelings a child presents surrounding abuse






13. Miscarriage - Low birth weight - Poor respiratory functioning






14. Ages 13 to adult in which morality is judged by abstract principles rather than existing rules that govern society and looking into oneself - Involves working out a personal code of ethics. Allows for the possibility of noncompliance with society's r






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






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






17. 2-6 years old - Much of baby fat disappears as arms/legs grow longer - Pot belly disappears - internal organs no longer growing faster than body cavity - Decrease in weight is attributed to - walking - fatty tissues start growing at slower rate






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






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






20. 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






21. 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






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






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

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25. 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






26. Infant shows - Insecurity - Signs of being disoriented






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






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






29. Improves physical strength & coordination - If successful then self - esteem can be highly boosted via approval of peers






30. Alcohol - Nicotine - Drugs






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






32. 1. Child is physically injured by other than accidental means 2. child is subjected to willful cruelty or unjustifiable punishment 3. child is abused or exploited sexually 4. child is neglected by a parent or caretaker who fails to provide adequate f






33. Children learn from operating in the environment






34. 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






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






36. 1. Teachers must recognize that children internalize what is right and wrong based upon their basic values and sense of self. 2. Teachers must recognize the sequential foundation upon which higher moral principles are based. 3. Teachers must recogniz






37. 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






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






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






40. 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.






41. 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






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






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






44. 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.






45. Preconventional - conventional - postconventional

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






47. 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.






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






49. 12: girls taller/boys weigh more - 13/14: boys taller & weigh more - 18: boys 4' taller 20 lbs heavier - Acceleration large motor physical strength in boys - Clumsy initially -- fast growth arms/legs - Quickly acquire ease of movement






50. Boys/girls about same weight/height - Girls growing only slightly slower than boys