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CSET Subtest III: Human Development - 2

Subjects : cset, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. ndustry vs. Inferiority (6 years - puberty) - Mastering knowledge and intellectual skills - enthusiastic about learning - imagination - Inferiority if feelings of incompetence and unproductiveness arise. If inferiority out weights industry - low self






2. Mental structure in which childrens knowledge is ordered into






3. Condition of significantly sub - average intelligence combined with deficiencies in adaptive behavior; implies an inability to perform at least some of the ordinary tasks of daily living skills; IQ of 0-70 in categories of mild - moderate - severe -






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






5. Alcohol - Nicotine - Drugs






6. Remember Zone of Proximal Development - what can they do on their own - what can they do with help






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






8. 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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






16. Children learn from operating in the environment






17. 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






18. Children make errors in their thinking because they cannot understand that an operation moves in more than one direction






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






20. Tag - chasing - wrestling






21. 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






22. 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






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






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






25. 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






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






27. Initiative vs. Guilt (3-5 years - preschool years) - - As challenges occur - initiative is needed for purposeful behavior - responsibility for body - behavior - toys - pets - etc...The child may feel like anything he does may dissappoint people aroun






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


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






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






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






32. At about 18 months






33. Developed with Physical structures to produce sounds - cognitive structures to produce thought process - and social structures to experience language through learning and practicing.






34. A successful childhood counseling treatment b/c it allows children to feel less threatened while working out conflicts and expressing their unresolved feelings






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






36. Formation of: body parts - major organs






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






38. 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.






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






40. Toddlers and preschoolers use objects to make something






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






42. 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






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






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






45. 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






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


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






48. 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






49. 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






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