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CSET Subtest III: Human Development - 2

Subjects : cset, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Sensorimotor movements manipulating objects in order to receive pleasure - Begins during infancy - Involves repetition of behavior/muscle movement - Can be engaged in throughout life






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






3. 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






4. Miscarriage - Low birth weight - Poor respiratory functioning






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

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






7. Drawing conclusions from specific examples to make a general conclusion - even when the conclusion is not accurate






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






9. Sensorimotor - preoperational - concrete operations - formal operations

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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






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






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






19. Infancy - Birth to 2 years - infants physical response to the immediate surroundings - Infants learn of their environments through sensation and movement. Egocentrism - infants are the center of their universe.






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






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






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






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






24. 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






25. 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






26. 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






27. 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.






28. Development is motivated by the search for a stable balance toward effective adaptations






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






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






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






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






33. Children imitate behavior through: socialization - by learning gender roles - by self - reinforcement - by self - efficacy - and - via other aspects of personality

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






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






36. 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.






37. 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






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






39. 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.






40. 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






41. 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 -






42. 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






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






44. 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






45. 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






46. 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






47. 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






48. Children learn from operating in the environment






49. 1. Functional 2. Constructive 3. Pretend or Imaginative 4. Rough - and - Tumble 5. Games with Rules






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