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CSET Subtest III: Human Development - 2

Subjects : cset, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Strongly improves child's problem - solving abilities - E.g. reading buddies






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






3. Formulating a specific hypothesis from any given general theory - what might be






4. 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






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






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






7. 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






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






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






10. Infant shows - Insecurity - Signs of being disoriented






11. Play is critical to _____ advancement in children






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






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






14. 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






15. 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






16. 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






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






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

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






20. 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






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






22. Alcohol - Nicotine - Drugs






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






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






25. The infant shows insecurity and signs of being disoriented






26. 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






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






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






29. 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.






30. 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.






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






32. 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






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. 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






35. Sensorimotor - preoperational - concrete operations - formal operations

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36. 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






37. Considerable interest in - Struggle with eating disorders possible






38. A collective set of inborn traits that help to construct a child's approach to the world






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






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






41. 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






42. Good way to evaluate child's body fat is to review their...






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






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






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






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






47. 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.






48. 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.






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






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