CHILD GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
TEST #1 QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
ANSWERS
Infants - Answer-Birth to One Year
Toddlers - Answer-One to Three
Preschool - Answer-Three to Five
Kindergartners - Answer-Five to Six
Primary - Answer-Six to Eight
When must we start label children with specific learning disabilities - Answer-8 years old
True or False Relationships are critical - Answer-True
Developmentally Appropriate Practice - Answer-Instructional practice that is age,
individually, and culturally appropriate as defined by the National Association for the
Education of Young Children
Developmentally Culturally Appropriate - Answer-An elaboration of DAP that focuses
more strongly on culturally appropriateness.
Ideas or set of rules that do what - Answer-Explain, describe, or predict what does or
will happen as children grow and learn.
Growth - Answer-A series of steps or stages a child goes through on the way to
becoming an adult
Learning - Answer-Behavior change that results from experience.
What do developmental theories attribute developmental changes to - Answer-
Interaction between growth and learning
Behaviorist theorists attribute changes to - Answer-Environment and Learning
Normative and maturation is what - Answer-a way of looking at development that
stresses certain norms.
What do constructivist believe - Answer-that children construct their own knowledge
through interaction with their environment
, Sociocultural View - Answer-Cultural and community beliefs and interests provide the
basis of education of young children
Ecological Theory - Answer-is concerned with interactions between layers of the child's
environment and the child.
Values regarding goals of education - Answer-vary with the individual and culture.
Variables to consider may include the following - Answer-Social Position, Culture, Age,
Temperament, Race
Baby Biographies - Answer-Diary record of interesting things a particular child does
each day.
G. Stanley Hall - Answer-Performed the first organized research on a large group of
children. He also asked parents throughout the U.S. to complete questionnaires about
their children.
What did Gesell study - Answer-Motor Development, finds that areas of development
are independent.
What were Freud's ideas applied to - Answer-Aggression, dependency, moral
development, and gender roles.
What does Skinner develop - Answer-Operant Conditioning
What does Sears investigate - Answer-practices like weaning, toileting, punishment.
What does John Whiting try to link child rearing practices with - Answer-To personality
development
What work does Piaget study the interaction between - Answer-Nature and Nurture
translated into English
What is Bronfenbrenner's major focus on - Answer-His work and the importance of
context
What happens in child development in the 1980's through the 2000's - Answer-The
search of the "Grand Theory" abandoned.
Eclectic, Flexible models of theory.
Genetic, and neurological bases of behavior.
The role of culture emphasized.
Interdisciplinary research methods used.
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