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






2. 1. Secure Attachment 2. Anxious - Resistant Attachment 3. Anxious - Avoidant Attachment 4. Disorganized - Disoriented Attachment






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






4. At about 18 months






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






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






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






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






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


10. 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






11. Mandatory Child Abuse Reporting Law - ______________ are mandated reporters of child abuse






12. Child becomes upset when caregiver leaves - is upset during absence






13. 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






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






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






16. The infant shows insecurity and signs of being disoriented






17. 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






18. 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






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






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






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






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


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. Children transform symbols into make believe play also pretending






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






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






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






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






29. 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






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






31. 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






32. 12-18 years old - Puberty - Growth spurts and concomitant clumsiness






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






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






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






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






37. 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


38. 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






39. Toddlers and preschoolers use objects to make something






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






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






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






43. Alcohol - Nicotine - Drugs






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






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






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


47. Mental retardation via FAS - FAS: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Low birth weight - Unusual facial characteristics






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






49. Considerable interest in - Struggle with eating disorders possible






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