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CSET Subtest III: Human Development - 2

Subjects : cset, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Remember Zone of Proximal Development - what can they do on their own - what can they do with help






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






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






4. 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






5. 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






6. Children believe that their thoughts can cause actions whether or not the experiences have a casual relationship - when I move the clouds move - god moves - sun moves - wind currents move






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






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






9. Play is critical to _____ advancement in children






10. 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






11. 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






12. 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






13. 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






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






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






16. 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






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






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






19. 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






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






21. 2 most common feelings a child presents surrounding abuse






22. Autonomy vs. Shame and doubt (1-3yrs) - virtue - Will - Central issue: Can I act on my own? toddler learns how to explore - experiment - make mistakes and test limits to gain self independence of self reliance -






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






24. Sensorimotor - preoperational - concrete operations - formal operations


25. Mental structure in which childrens knowledge is ordered into






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






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






28. Think about thinking occurs in the concrete operations period - a child;s awareness of knowing about one's own knowledge






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


30. 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.






31. Tag - chasing - wrestling






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






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






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






35. Children transform symbols into make believe play also pretending






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






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






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






39. 1. Teachers must recognize that children internalize what is right and wrong based upon their basic values and sense of self. 2. Teachers must recognize the sequential foundation upon which higher moral principles are based. 3. Teachers must recogniz






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






45. 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.






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






47. 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






48. The infant uses the caregiver as the secure base to explore the environment






49. 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.


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