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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. Toddlers and preschoolers use objects to make something






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

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

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






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






6. Strongly improves child's problem - solving abilities - E.g. reading buddies






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






8. 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






9. Poor hygiene - E.g. - soiled clothes - dirty hair - body odor - Poor nutrition - E.g. - excessive hunger - weight loss






10. Sensorimotor - preoperational - concrete operations - formal operations

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11. Altering the environment or situation to produce a more favorable outcome






12. Come from both heredity and environment. Many typical changes during childhood are related to maturation. Individual differences tend to increase with age






13. At about 18 months






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






15. Temperament traits are _____ in development of _____ and way a child shows _____ responses.






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






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






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






19. 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






20. Preconventional - conventional - postconventional

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21. Transformations in a child's thought - language - and intelligence. Theories: 1. Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development 2. Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development 3. Multi - theoretical perspectives of language - intelligence - and children with spe






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






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






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






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






27. Children respond automatically since they have formed an association between a stimulus and the response






28. 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






29. Infant shows - Insecurity - Signs of being disoriented






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






31. 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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32. 7-11 years old - Many children grow about 2'/year






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






34. Children actively construct their knowledge through society






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






37. 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






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






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






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






41. 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






42. 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






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






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






45. 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






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






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






48. Middle childhood - 7 to 11 years - mastery of conservation the child begins to think logically - (7-11 yrs) Children understand conservation - less egocentrism - understand hierarchal classification - can focus on multiple aspects at a time. Children






49. 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.






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