Lifespan Development PSYC290 Midterm exam with accurate answers
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Lifespan Development PSYC290 Midterm exam with accurate answers
During early childhood, the average child grows ______ inches per year.
2 1/2 inches
Which of the following statements regarding brain development in early childhood is TRUE?
Increases in brain development are due to increases ...
Lifespan Development PSYC290 Midterm exam with accurate answers
During early childhood, the average child grows ______ inches per year.
2 1/2 inches
Which of the following statements regarding brain development in early childhood is TRUE?
Increases in brain development are due to increases in myelination and in the number and size of
nerve endings
Myelination in the areas of the brain related to hand eye coordination is not complete until
4 years of age
In the area of fine motor skills, sometimes _______ - year-old children have trouble building high towers
with blocks because, in their desire to stack perfectly, they may upset those already stacked.
4
What is one of the most common nutritional problems in early childhood, associated with failure to eat
adequate amounts of quality meats and dark green vegetables?
Iron deficiency anemia
Which stage of cognitive development occurs between ages 2 and 4 years and involves the child's ability
to mentally represent an object that is not present?
Symbolic function substage
In the United States, what is (are) the main cause(s) of death in children 1 through 4 years of age?
,Motor vehicle accidents
________ is the focusing of attention on one characteristic of an object or situation to the exclusion of
all others.
Centration
________ is the awareness that altering an object's appearance does not change its basic properties.
Conservation
________ is Vygotsky's term suggesting that, over the course of a teaching session, the teacher should
change the level of support given to fit the student's performance level.
Scaffolding
Both Vygotsky and Piaget suggested that
Teachers should be facilitators and guides rather than directors
Regarding information processing in early childhood, which of the following statements is TRUE?
Significant improvements occur in short-term memory.
Jean Berko
Conducted a classic experiment demonstrating that children understand morphological rules.
,Which of the following is NOT a component of a child-centered kindergarten?
Emphasis on what is learned
Children in developmentally appropriate classrooms are likely to
Be more motivated
_______ is a compensatory education program designed to provide children from low-income families
with the opportunity to acquire important school success skills.
Project Head Start
Jean Piaget
Preoperational thought moves from primitive to sophisticated use of symbols
Barbel Inhelder
Worked with Piaget to study young children's egocentrism by devising the three mountains task
Rochel Gelman
When a child's attention to relevant aspects of the conversation task is improved, the child is more likely
to conserve
Lev Vygotsky
, Language and thought develop independently of each other, but eventually merge
Mary Rothbart and Maria Gartstein
Described why advances in executive and sustained attention are so important in early childhood
Used fictional words to test children's understanding of language rules
Jean Berko
Maria Montessori
Revolutionized teaching by allowing children freedom and spontaneity
Myelination
Process by which the nerve cells are covered and insulated with a layer of fat cells, which increases the
speed at which information travels through the nervous system
Preoperational stage
Piagetian stage in which 2 to 7 year old children begin to represent the world with words, images, and
drawings, form stable concepts, and are dominated by egocentrism
Operations
In Piaget's theory, internalized sets of actions that allow children to do mentally what they formerly did
physically
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