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






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






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






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






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






6. 12-18 years old - Puberty - Growth spurts and concomitant clumsiness






7. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. Sensorimotor - preoperational - concrete operations - formal operations


15. 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






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






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






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






19. 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






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






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


22. 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.






23. 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






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






25. 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






26. Home environment influences much of a child's _____. Diets of minority families and socioeconomically deprived children are especially ____.






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






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






29. 8 intelligences - intelligence and talent are two different things. Eight intelligences are linguistic - musical - logical - mathematical - spatial - bodily - kinesthetic - interpersonal - naturalistic - existential


30. This is the ability of a child to arrange objects in logical progression






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






32. Formation of: body parts - major organs






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






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






35. Play is a social activity children engage in just for...






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






37. Considerable interest in - Struggle with eating disorders possible






38. 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.






39. Vygotsky believed _____ is an essential aspect of cultural development and that _____ growth and language are _____ based






40. At about 18 months






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






42. 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 -






43. 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






44. Based on what can be observed and learned through experience in the child's environment. Learning behavior theories: Ivan Pavlov's and John Watson's classical conditioning B.F. Skinner's operant conditioning. Social theories in understanding child de






45. Children transform symbols into make believe play also pretending






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






47. 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






48. Tag - chasing - wrestling






49. According to the Individuals with disabilities Act or IDEA all children with disabilities are guaranteed a free - appropriate publec education.






50. Alcohol - Nicotine - Drugs