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CSET Subtest III: Human Development - 2

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1. 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






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






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






4. 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






5. 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






6. 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






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






8. Tag - chasing - wrestling






9. Belief in the ability to do things on one's own






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






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






12. Children transform symbols into make believe play also pretending






13. 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






14. Considerable interest in - Struggle with eating disorders possible






15. The infant becomes anxious before the caregiver leaves and is upset during their absence






16. At about 18 months






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






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






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






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






22. Mental structure in which childrens knowledge is ordered into






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






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






25. 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.






26. 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






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






28. 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






29. The ability to draw conclusions about a relationship between two objects by knowing the relationship to a third object






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






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






32. 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






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






34. 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






35. 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






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






37. 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






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






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

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40. 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






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






42. 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






43. 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






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






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






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






47. 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






48. 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.






49. 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






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






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