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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. 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.






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






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






4. Toddlers and preschoolers use objects to make something






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






6. 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






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






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






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






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






11. 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






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






13. Preconventional - conventional - postconventional

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14. 8 intelligences - intelligence and talent are two different things. Eight intelligences are linguistic - musical - logical - mathematical - spatial - bodily - kinesthetic - interpersonal - naturalistic - existential

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






16. Mental structure in which childrens knowledge is ordered into






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






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. Personality develops through a series of conflicts that are influenced by society. Eight Stages of age specific crisis we pass through in order to create an equilibrium between our self and society. Turning Points.

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20. 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






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






22. 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






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






24. 7-11 years old - Many children grow about 2'/year






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

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26. Be consistent and write down predictable outlines - schedules - and deadlines - Demonstrate and model appropriate behavior - giving positive reinforcement - Talk slowly - making eye contact when possible - and keep conversations brief - Keep peripher






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






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






29. The infant becomes anxious before the caregiver leaves and is upset during their absence






30. 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.






31. At about 18 months






32. 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






33. Play is critical to _____ advancement in children






34. Formation of: body parts - major organs






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. An internalized set of rules influencing the feelings - thoughts and behavior of an individual in deciding what is right and wrong.






42. Children make errors in their thinking because they cannot understand that an operation moves in more than one direction






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






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






45. 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






46. 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.






47. 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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48. 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






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






50. The infant shows insecurity and signs of being disoriented