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






2. 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






3. 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.






4. 12-18 years old - Puberty - Growth spurts and concomitant clumsiness






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






6. 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






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






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






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






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






11. Piaget quantified the __________________ - suggesting that there are predictable and orderly developmental accomplishments. Children can be tested at each stage to verify their level of cognitive understanding.






12. Language development; disagreed with Skinner about language acquisition - stated there is an infinite # of sentences in a language - humans have an inborn native ability to develop language






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






14. Children actively construct their knowledge through society






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






16. 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






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






18. 2 most common feelings a child presents surrounding abuse






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






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






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






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






23. 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






24. 8 intelligences - intelligence and talent are two different things. Eight intelligences are linguistic - musical - logical - mathematical - spatial - bodily - kinesthetic - interpersonal - naturalistic - existential

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25. 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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26. 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






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






28. 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






29. Alcohol - Nicotine - Drugs






30. 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 -






31. 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






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

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






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






35. Match between a child's temperament and environment or demands on child - Ex: quiet child in boisterous family - Ex: active child in scholarly family >






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






37. Secure attachment is fundamental to a child's ability to emotionally and biologically self - regulate






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. At about 18 months






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






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






48. 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






49. Tag - chase - wrestling - Begins about the end of early childhood - Most popular during middle childhood






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