CSET Mult Subj Subtest 3 (Art/PE/Hum Devel) Flashcards
musical term: for fast, lively, cheerful
allegro
musical term: the unique quality of an instrument’s sound; its “voice.”
timbre
musical term: loud
forte
musical term: smooth
legato
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.
environmental staging
Stage is surrounded on 3 sides (270 degrees) by the audience.
proscenium staging
Popular Japanese theater, in which elaborately costumed performers, nowadays men only, use stylized movements, dances, and songs in order to enact tragedies and comedies.
Kabuki Theater
Type of theater: drama, tragedy.
Aristotelian Theater
The area not occupied by the focus or subject of a painting.
Negative Space
The point at which parallel lines receding from an observer seem to converge.
Vanishing Point
Understanding of the relationship between two objects by knowing the relationship of each to a third object.
Transitive Inference
Piaget’s term for the understanding that a person or object still exists when out of sight.
Object Permanence
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.
Conservation
Awareness of a person’s own mental processes.
Metacognition
Piaget’s term for inability to consider another person’s point of view; a characteristic of young children’s thought.
Egocentrism
Tendency to attribute life to objects that are not alive.
Animism
Temporary support to help a child master a task.
Scaffolding
Test that seeks to measure componential, experiential, and contextual intelligence. (based on analytic, creative, and practical intelligence)
Sternberg Triarchic Abilities Test (STAT)
A group of birth defects caused by brain damage that affect control of movement.
Cerebral Palsy
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.
Down Syndrome
Piaget’s term for changes in a cognitive structure to include new information.
Accommodation
Piaget’s term for adjustment to new information about the environment, achieved through processes of assimilation and accommodation.
Adaptation
Piaget’s term for incorporation of new information into an existing cognitive structure.
Assimilation
Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development
- Sensorimotor Stage 2. Preoperational Stage 3. Concrete Operational Stage 4. Formal Operational Stage
(0-2 years) Children learn entirely through the movements they make and the sensations that result.
Sensorimotor Stage (Piaget)
(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.
Preoperational Stage (Piaget)
(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.
Concrete Operational Stage (Piaget)
(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.
Formal Operational Stage (Piaget)
Brain and spinal cord.
Central Nervous System
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.
Child-Directed Speech
In an experiment, a group of people, similar to those in the experimental group, who do not receive the treatment under study.
Control Group
