E02 Child Development Lesson 4 and 5 Exam SCORE 98 PERCENT

Question 1

2.5 / 2.5 points

One of the primary reasons that children experience TBI in the first year or two of life is that they:

Question options:

a) 

are not immunized according to the approved sequence.

b) 

are not very independent and so more likely to fall while playing.

c) 

have a genetic predisposition toward risky behavior.

d) 

have limited self-regulation and parents who are not watching carefully.

Question 2

2.5 / 2.5 points

The new science of learning is a theory of learning based on:

Question options:

a) 

how children actively discover and make sense of their environments.

b) 

imitation of more experienced adults and older children.

c) 

key concepts that contribute to the continuation and evolution of the species.

d) 

the mechanisms infants use to learn, as shown in laboratory experiments.

Question 3

2.5 / 2.5 points

An infant's core knowledge about mathematics includes:

Question options:

a) 

counting from one to three.

b) 

expecting things that are dropped to fall down.

c) 

recognizing a large difference between two amounts.

d) 

recognizing that two objects cannot occupy the same space.

Question 4

2.5 / 2.5 points

The loss in adipose toward the end of the first year results in toddlers becoming:

Question options:

a) 

leaner than they were as infants.

b) 

more capable of executive function.

c) 

muscular and coordinated.

d) 

ossified.

Question 5

2.5 / 2.5 points

ChooseMyPlate.gov recommends that 2-year-olds consume:

Question options:

a) 

2 cups of milk a day.

b) 

2000 calories a day.

c) 

4 ounces of meat and/or beans a day.

d) 

no sweets at all.

Question 6

2.5 / 2.5 points

The theory of action representation posits that:

Question options:

a) 

imitation is a basic process of learning in infancy.

b) 

infants pay the most attention to actions that contribute to their evolution.

c) 

infants understand actions better than they understand the objects in their environment.

d) 

people act with intentions to achieve goals.

Question 7

2.5 / 2.5 points

Words in an infants' receptive vocabulary are:

Question options:

a) 

easy for an infant to pronounce.

b) 

filled with sounds from a variety of languages.

c) 

repetitive consonant-vowel combinations.

d) 

understood but not necessarily produced.

Question 8

2.5 / 2.5 points

Babbles which are repeated over and over are called:

Question options:

a) 

dramatic repetition.

b) 

echolalia.

c) 

extensors.

d) 

intensive speech.

Question 9

2.5 / 2.5 points

What is the most important thing that adults can do to help infants and toddlers love to look at books and later love to read them?

Question options:

a) 

Expose children to places outside the home.

b) 

Make looking at books enjoyable.

c) 

Provide "touch and smell" books.

d) 

Put books on shelves with easy reach of the children.

Question 10

2.5 / 2.5 points

Studies of cognitive development in infancy have acknowledged that:

Question options:

a) 

infants do not need much stimulation.

b) 

infants do not respond to stimuli in their environment.

c) 

there is not much cognitive growth in infancy.

d) 

there is tremendous potential for learning in infancy.

Question 11

2.5 / 2.5 points

Literacy has its origins in:

Question options:

a) 

formal reading and writing instruction in kindergarten.

b) 

good literature for children.

c) 

shared talk, chants, songs, and book experiences in infancy.

d) 

structured activities during the infant/toddler period.

Question 12

2.5 / 2.5 points

Toilet learning:

Question options:

a) 

is a gradual maturational process.

b) 

is best taught by the time the child is 2 years old.

c) 

must be imposed early during the toddler period.

d) 

should be ignored during the toddler period.

Question 13

2.5 / 2.5 points

Which of the following statements is TRUE about the first year of life?

Question options:

a) 

Coordination of the feet occurs before control of the head.

b) 

Coordination of the smaller muscles occurs before coordination of the large muscles.

c) 

The extensors muscles are stronger than the flexors muscles.

d) 

The flexors muscles are stronger than the extensors muscles.

Question 14

2.5 / 2.5 points

Single words or short phrases used to represent whole sentences are referred to as:

Question options:

a) 

babbling.

b) 

echolalic speech.

c) 

holophrases.

d) 

pragmatics.

Question 15

2.5 / 2.5 points

Regarding forward-facing child seats in automobiles, the AAP advises that children may:

Question options:

a) 

not use them; child seats for cars should always be rear-facing.

b) 

sit in them only after 2 years of age or when the child outgrows the rear-facing seat.

c) 

sit in them only if they are placed in the front seat with a harness.

d) 

use them only if placed on the passenger side of the car.

Question 16

2.5 / 2.5 points

To help prevent aspiration, parents of infants are advised to:

Question options:

a) 

avoid taking medication in front of children.

b) 

never leave the child alone in a parked car.

c) 

prevent the child from eating while running.

d) 

use non-lead-based pain throughout the house.

Question 17

2.5 / 2.5 points

Shortly after birth, infants whose mothers read aloud while they were pregnant are able to:

Question options:

a) 

babble using a variety of sounds from the stories that their mothers read.

b) 

choose to listen to a story read by their mothers rather than by someone else.

c) 

communicate via cries and babbles that they do not like stories read by other people.

d) 

recognize certain words within the sentences by focusing on their beginnings and endings.

Question 18

2.5 / 2.5 points

By age ____, infants are able to use their thumb and fingers in opposition to each other in a reasonably efficient way.

Question options:

a) 

6 months

b) 

10 months

c) 

one year

d) 

two years

Question 19

2.5 / 2.5 points

A way of speaking, including higher pitch and stress on particular words or syllables, is called:

Question options:

a) 

babbling.

b) 

baby talk.

c) 

child-directed speech.

d) 

something detrimental for children.

Question 20

2.5 / 2.5 points

By age 2 ½ to 3, most children have 20 deciduous teeth. These teeth are also called:

Question options:

a) 

adipose teeth.

b) 

incisor teeth.

c) 

primary teeth.

d) 

skeletal teeth.

Question 21

2.5 / 2.5 points

In general, toddlers learn new words best when the words are:

Question options:

a) 

presented only once and then fast-mapped.

b) 

spoken in the singsong-like intonation of infant-directed speech.

c) 

spoken while pointing to an object or a picture in a book.

d) 

used in descriptions with words they already know.

Question 22

2.5 / 2.5 points

Greg and his mother are at the park. Greg, who is two, is playing with other children. His mother is visiting with her friends nearby. "I love you, Mommy!" he yells. This is an example of:

Question options:

a) 

indiscriminate responsiveness.

b) 

overdependence on a caregiver.

c) 

proximity seeking.

d) 

proximodistal development.

Question 23

2.5 / 2.5 points

Negative behaviors on the part of the toddler which tax the patience of adults may be a sign of:

Question options:

a) 

an emerging sense of autonomy.

b) 

having been overindulged.

c) 

hostility to parents and caregivers.

d) 

insecurity and fear that requires evaluation.

Question 24

2.5 / 2.5 points

When Jeremy's teacher says, "Your mother smiled when you opened the door for her. You saw that her hands were too full of sacks to open it herself," she is:

Question options:

a) 

encouraging Jeremy to use good manners.

b) 

helping Jeremy to appreciate his mother.

c) 

making points with Jeremy's mother.

d) 

supporting Jeremy's emerging prosocial learning.

Question 25

2.5 / 2.5 points

Which of the following is the best example of overregularization?

Question options:

a) 

saying "cat" instead of "lion."

b) 

saying "cooker" instead of "chef."

c) 

saying "garden-man" instead of "gardener."

d) 

saying "it breaked' instead of "it broke."

Question 26

2.5 / 2.5 points

When a child thinks the word "dog" refers only to the family's dog and not to other dogs she sees, this is called:

Question options:

a) 

creative vocabulary.

b) 

overextension.

c) 

overregularzation.

d) 

underextension.

Question 27

2.5 / 2.5 points

Sadie looked at her picture in her grandmother's "brag book." She pointed to each picture of herself, then pointed to her face and said, "Me!" This is an example of:

Question options:

a) 

self-awareness.

b) 

self-concept.

c) 

self-definition.

d) 

self-recognition.

Question 28

2.5 / 2.5 points

A child has built a large block structure in his Head Start center. He now places two blocks upright and tries to make a bridge across them using a third block. He selects a block of the wrong length to make the bridge, however, and his structure topples. He tries again and again with this block, always getting the same result. A teacher moves over to him and says, "What if you tried a different block? Which block would be the right length?" The child thinks about this question, selects a longer block, and successfully completes the bridge. This is a good example of a teacher intervening:

Question options:

a) 

through the use of cognitive dissonance.

b) 

to facilitate accommodation when concepts are beyond the child's level of mastery.

c) 

too quickly, thus depriving a child of an opportunity for internal construction.

d) 

within the zone of proximal development.

Question 29

2.5 / 2.5 points

Sociocultural theory emphasizes:

Question options:

a) 

that a child learns independently from adults.

b) 

that attachment is a key component of development.

c) 

that the child constructs his own knowledge.

d) 

the role of the adult in teaching or supporting the child's learning.

Question 30

2.5 / 2.5 points

When children learn the structure of a language system, they are said to be learning the:

Question options:

a) 

phonemes.

b) 

phonology.

c) 

semantics.

d) 

syntax.

Question 31

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A child's sense of self as separate and unique from other people is called:

Question options:

a) 

self-awareness.

b) 

self-definition. (Incorrect)

c) 

self-esteem.

d) 

self-recognition.

Question 32

2.5 / 2.5 points

What does Vygotsky call the process by which adults or more skilled children facilitate development in less mature children by providing verbal information?

Question options:

a) 

Accommodation

b) 

Assimilation

c) 

Scaffolding

d) 

Zone of proximal development

Question 33

2.5 / 2.5 points

Understanding that other people have thoughts that may be different from yours is part of the development of:

Question options:

a) 

a theory of mind.

b) 

effortful control.

c) 

executive function.

d) 

self-regulatory behaviors.

Question 34

2.5 / 2.5 points

A child in Japan internalizes the basic speech sounds of that language system, while a child from Peru learns different sounds. What is the study of the sounds of a language called?

Question options:

a) 

Communicative competence

b) 

Phonology

c) 

Semantics

d) 

Syntax

Question 35

2.5 / 2.5 points

A child sees an airplane and calls it a bird. This is an example of the child demonstrating:

Question options:

a) 

approximation.

b) 

creative vocabulary.

c) 

fast mapping.

d) 

overextension.

Question 36

2.5 / 2.5 points

When Mackenzie (11 months-old) pointed to the picture in the book, her care teacher said, "That's a cow. That's a brown cow." Mackenzie's care teacher knew about the importance of:

Question options:

a) 

assimilation.

b) 

expressive language.

c) 

joint attention.

d) 

the vocabulary explosion.

Question 37

2.5 / 2.5 points

Conflicts among toddlers can best be viewed as:

Question options:

a) 

a sign of emerging antisocial behaviors.

b) 

positive opportunities for social learning.

c) 

resolved easily and promptly by a skilled adult.

d) 

viewed as precursors to bullying.

Question 38

2.5 / 2.5 points

Jared said, "I'm a boy and I'm this many" (holding up two fingers). Jared also knows that he lives in Oklahoma and that he likes pizza. This is an example of:

Question options:

a) 

self-awareness.

b) 

self-concept.

c) 

self-definition.

d) 

self-recognition.

Question 39

2.5 / 2.5 points

Meeting a toddler's needs for a sense of autonomy means:

Question options:

a) 

bearing with this passing stage of development.

b) 

providing freedom of choice.

c) 

supporting independence where practical and safe.

d) 

teaching the toddler discernment.

Question 40

2.5 / 2.5 points

If a toddler is using a transitional object at age 2 or 3, the caregiver should:

Question options:

a) 

encourage the child to give up the transition object before attending preschool.

b) 

refrain from interfering with a child's attachment to a transition object.

c) 

remove the transition object when the child is sleeping.

d) 

select an appropriate transition object for the child.