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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. Mental structure in which childrens knowledge is ordered into






2. Autonomy vs. Shame and doubt (1-3yrs) - virtue - Will - Central issue: Can I act on my own? toddler learns how to explore - experiment - make mistakes and test limits to gain self independence of self reliance -






3. Miscarriage - Low birth weight - Poor respiratory functioning






4. Alcohol - Nicotine - Drugs






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






6. 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






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






8. 12-18 years old - Puberty - Growth spurts and concomitant clumsiness






9. 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






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






11. Piaget suggested that a child's mind seeks a ________________. At each stage - children form a new way to operate and adapt to the world.






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






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






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






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






16. Infant shows - Insecurity - Signs of being disoriented






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






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






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






20. Altering the environment or situation to produce a more favorable outcome






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






22. Children actively construct their knowledge through society






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






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






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






26. Environmental agents that can cause abnormalities in a fetus - Prevent or modify normal cell division - Danger - thus - greatest during embryonic stage (2-8 weeks)






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






28. 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.






29. 1. Physical Abuse 2. Physical Neglect 3. Sexual Abuse 4. Emotional Maltreatment






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






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






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

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






34. 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






35. 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






36. 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.






37. Birth defects - Premature birth - Low birth weight - Neurological disturbances - High startle rate - Learning disabilities - Slowed motor development






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






39. 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






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






41. Children learn from operating in the environment






42. 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






43. At about 18 months






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






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






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






47. Temporary support system to support child until task can be mastered alone






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






49. Poor hygiene - E.g. - soiled clothes - dirty hair - body odor - Poor nutrition - E.g. - excessive hunger - weight loss






50. 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