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






2. 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






3. Children transform symbols into make believe play also pretending






4. 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






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






6. 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






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






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






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






10. 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






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






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






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






14. At about 18 months






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


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






17. Varies greatly depending upon these factors: 1. The child 2. The experience 3. Its frequency 4. What is done about it


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






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






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






21. 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






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






23. 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






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






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






26. Often during elementary school - Have rules - are competitive - pleasurable - Preschool games more about taking turns - Replace around age 12 by practice play and organized sports - Can be engaged in throughout life






27. 1. Teachers must recognize that children internalize what is right and wrong based upon their basic values and sense of self. 2. Teachers must recognize the sequential foundation upon which higher moral principles are based. 3. Teachers must recogniz






28. 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 -






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






30. 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.






31. Hard of Hearing. Appear lost or confused.






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






33. Considerable interest in - Struggle with eating disorders possible






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






35. 7-11 years old - Many children grow about 2'/year






36. Much of what we know about how children think feel and respond to the world come from him. His theory states that children predictable and orderly stages of cognitive development and at each stage they form a new way to operate and adapt to the world


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






38. Preconventional - conventional - postconventional


39. Refers to the match between a child's temperament and environmental demands the child must deal with






40. 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






41. 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






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






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






44. Allow the student to sit behind others so that the student won't disturb others - and teach the student to tap his pencil on a sleeve or leg instead of the table






45. 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






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






47. 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






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






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






50. 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 -