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CSET Subtest III: Human Development - 2

Subjects : cset, teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The infant uses the caregiver as the secure base to explore the environment






2. 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.






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






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






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






6. Tag - chasing - wrestling






7. 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






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






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






10. 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






11. 12-18 years old - Puberty - Growth spurts and concomitant clumsiness






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






13. Toddlers and preschoolers use objects to make something






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






15. 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






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






17. 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






18. The infant shows insecurity and signs of being disoriented






19. 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

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






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






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






23. 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






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






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






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






27. Girls more fatty tissue than boys - Boys more muscle tissue - Height/weight about same - just distributed differently - Boys might tend to be slightly taller/heavier






28. 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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29. Improves physical strength & coordination - If successful then self - esteem can be highly boosted via approval of peers






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






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






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






33. Stresses importance of advancing learning via observing & modeling the: behaviors - attitudes - emotional reactions of others

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34. Considerable interest in - Struggle with eating disorders possible






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






36. Children transform symbols into make believe play also pretending






37. 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






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

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39. 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






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

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






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






43. 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






44. Play is critical to _____ advancement in children






45. Most children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) show symptoms of both inattention and hyperactivity - but there are some children who are inattentive and do not show signs of hyperactivity; these children have Attention Deficit Dis






46. 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






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






48. Alcohol - Nicotine - Drugs






49. Sensorimotor - preoperational - concrete operations - formal operations

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50. 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