CSET Mult Subj Subtest 3 (Art/PE/Hum Devel)

Question 1

musical term: for fast, lively, cheerful

Answer 1

allegro

Question 2

musical term: the unique quality of an instrument’s sound; its “voice.”

Answer 2

timbre

Question 3

musical term: loud

Answer 3

forte

Question 4

musical term: smooth

Answer 4

legato

Question 5

A type of theatrical staging in which there is no clear distinction between the space of the audience and the space occupied by the performers.

Answer 5

environmental staging

Question 6

Stage is surrounded on 3 sides (270 degrees) by the audience.

Answer 6

proscenium staging

Question 7

Popular Japanese theater, in which elaborately costumed performers, nowadays men only, use stylized movements, dances, and songs in order to enact tragedies and comedies.

Answer 7

Kabuki Theater

Question 8

Type of theater: drama, tragedy.

Answer 8

Aristotelian Theater

Question 9

The area not occupied by the focus or subject of a painting.

Answer 9

Negative Space

Question 10

The point at which parallel lines receding from an observer seem to converge.

Answer 10

Vanishing Point

Question 11

Understanding of the relationship between two objects by knowing the relationship of each to a third object.

Answer 11

Transitive Inference

Question 12

Piaget’s term for the understanding that a person or object still exists when out of sight.

Answer 12

Object Permanence

Question 13

Piaget’s term for awareness that two objects that are equal according to a certain measure remain equal in the face of perceptual alteration so long as nothing has been added to or taken away from either object.

Answer 13

Conservation

Question 14

Awareness of a person’s own mental processes.

Answer 14

Metacognition

Question 15

Piaget’s term for inability to consider another person’s point of view; a characteristic of young children’s thought.

Answer 15

Egocentrism

Question 16

Tendency to attribute life to objects that are not alive.

Answer 16

Animism

Question 17

Temporary support to help a child master a task.

Answer 17

Scaffolding

Question 18

Test that seeks to measure componential, experiential, and contextual intelligence. (based on analytic, creative, and practical intelligence)

Answer 18

Sternberg Triarchic Abilities Test (STAT)

Question 19

A group of birth defects caused by brain damage that affect control of movement.

Answer 19

Cerebral Palsy

Question 20

Chromosomal disorder characterized by moderate-to-severe mental retardation and by such physical signs as a downward-sloping skin fold at the inner corners of the eyes.

Answer 20

Down Syndrome

Question 21

Piaget’s term for changes in a cognitive structure to include new information.

Answer 21

Accommodation

Question 22

Piaget’s term for adjustment to new information about the environment, achieved through processes of assimilation and accommodation.

Answer 22

Adaptation

Question 23

Piaget’s term for incorporation of new information into an existing cognitive structure.

Answer 23

Assimilation

Question 24

Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development

Answer 24

1. Sensorimotor Stage 2. Preoperational Stage 3. Concrete Operational Stage 4. Formal Operational Stage

Question 25

(0-2 years) Children learn entirely through the movements they make and the sensations that result.

Answer 25

Sensorimotor Stage (Piaget)

Question 26

(2-7 years) Once children acquire language, they are able to use symbols (such as words or pictures) to represent objects. Their thinking is still very egocentric though – they assume that everyone else sees things from the same viewpoint as they do.

Answer 26

Preoperational Stage (Piaget)

Question 27

(7-11 years) At this stage, children are able to see things from different points of view and to imagine events that occur outside their own lives. Some organized, logical thought processes are now evident, however, thinking still tends to be tied to concrete reality.

Answer 27

Concrete Operational Stage (Piaget)

Question 28

(11+ years) Around the onset of puberty, children are able to reason in much more abstract ways and to test hypotheses using systematic logic. There is a much greater focus on possibilities and on ideological issues.

Answer 28

Formal Operational Stage (Piaget)

Question 29

Brain and spinal cord.

Answer 29

Central Nervous System

Question 30

Form of speech often used in talking to babies or toddlers; includes slow, simplified speech, a high-pitched tone, exaggerated vowel sounds, short words and sentences, and much repetition; also called parentese or motherese.

Answer 30

Child-Directed Speech

Question 31

In an experiment, a group of people, similar to those in the experimental group, who do not receive the treatment under study.

Answer 31

Control Group