OSAT Early Childhood Education- PRACTICE TEST/
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According to Piaget's theory, in what age range do children begin representing things with symbols? -
ANSWER - Between 18 and 24 months
When a young child believes his/her thoughts caused something external to happen, which is the MOST
SPECIFIC Piagetian term to describe this phenomenon? - ANSWER - Magical Thinking
In which of the six stages of art growth and development do children begin to develop a visual schema? -
ANSWER - Preschematic
Which of the following is most typical of the language development of a two-year-old? - ANSWER - Using
at least two pronouns correctly
Which of the following teacher actions in most effective for fostering greater depth of preschoolers'
comprehension of word meanings? - ANSWER - Giving multiple definitions and examples of new words
What is the most typical age for children to understand common opposites like big/little, hot/cold, etc.? -
ANSWER - Five years old
According to Roger Brown's (1973) Stage I sentence types, which of these is classified under "Operations
of Reference" - ANSWER - a negation
In Brown's (1973) Stages of Syntactical and Morphological Development, which of these age ranges is
associated with what he designated as Stage I? - ANSWER - 15-30 months
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,A child who correctly use irregular past tenses of verbs would be in which of Roger Brown's stages of
Syntactic and Morphological Development? - ANSWER - Stage III
According to Roger Brown, a child who indicates the regular plural by saying "My toys" is in which of his
Stages of Syntactical and Morphological Development? - ANSWER - Stage II
When characterizing young children, what did Vygotsky mean by the term "private speech" that he
coined? - ANSWER - Speaking aloud to themselves during activities
Among the following auditory disabilities, which one does not involve any part of the hearing
mechanism? - ANSWER - Central auditory processing disorder
To promote young children's developing abstract thinking, which teacher technique(s) to use during and
after shared readings is/are best suited for use with children in the younger, rather than older, ages of
early childhood? - ANSWER - Asking children to identify vocabulary words and describe story details
From birth to the age of 2 years, children typically grow to ______ times their newborn weights -
ANSWER - four
By the time they are two years old, children's brains typically have grown to ______ of their adult sizes. -
ANSWER - 55%
What is true regarding children's motor development from infancy to preschool ages? - ANSWER - Motor
skills development involves learning of new physical movements over the course of time
Which of these accurately reflects research findings on gender differences in early childhood motor
development? - ANSWER - Despite certain differences, preschool motor development between genders
is more similar than different
For children with a primarily visual learning style, which material would be most effective to give them to
help them understand abstract concepts and relationships? - ANSWER - multicolor graphics
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,Which of the following correctly reflects Adler's theory of birth order's influences on personality
devleopment? - ANSWER - Some "babies" of the family grow to make grandiose plans, which never
succeed
In Adler's psychoanalytic theory, which of these did he believe about male/female siblings in family birth
orders? - ANSWER - Boy siblings of an only girl can behave protectively toward her; she may make extra
effort to please the father
According to Murry Bowen's Family Systems Theory, which of the following accurately reflects what he
called the Family Projection Process? - ANSWER - Parental perception of child problems can become self-
fulfilling prophecy in the child's self-image
Typically, young children eat most of the same foods as adults by the age of_____ - ANSWER - two years
old
Which of the following is most accurate about the sleep needs and behaviors of young children? -
ANSWER - Children typically need 10-12 hours of sleep at ages of 2-5 years
Which of the following have research studies found regarding the relative individualism or collectivism of
different world cultures? - ANSWER - Asian and Latin American cultures are both more interdependent
What is true regarding survey findings about family differences among American socioeconomic and
racial groups? - ANSWER - Data have shown more violence in African-American families, then in Latino,
then White families
Which of the following reflects an early childhood application of Freud's psychoanalytic theory of
development? - ANSWER - providing safe and sanitary objects for babies mouths
Which of the following is NOT one of Bandura's conditions required for learning? - ANSWER - Cognition
According to Carl Rogers, a child who relies primarily on external locus of control demonstrates: -
ANSWER - conditional positive self-regard
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, Which statement is most accurate about the Montessori Method of education? - ANSWER - the self-
direction and self-correction of children are emphasized
Which of these correctly represents an element of the Bank Street Curriculum approach to early
childhood education? - ANSWER - Children learn at various developmental levels
Which statement accurately reflects Friedrich Froebel's philosophy of early childhood education? -
ANSWER - Froebel believed that nature is at the heart of all learning
Of the following, which is true of Siegfried Engelmann's contributions to early childhood education? -
ANSWER - Engelmann demonstrated that Piaget's conservation of liquid volume did not depend only on
a child's stage
The high/scope curriculum for preschoolers (weikart et al) identifies 58 key developmental experiences
for active learning, dividing them into 10 main categories. Which of the following does NOT correctly
represent one of the first five of these 10 categories? - ANSWER - Music, including being able to write
musical notation and compositions
Which of these statements accurately reflects principles of emergent literacy theory? - ANSWER - Young
children learn reading and writing concurrently rather than sequentially.
Which of the following is true about the whole language approach to early childhood literacy
instruction? - ANSWER - The whole language approach is based on the philosophy and psychology of
constructivism.
What statement correctly represents how the whole language instructional approach addresses young
children's mechanical errors in early literacy learning? - ANSWER - Children's overall engagement,
comprehension, and appreciation precede correction.
When children construct meaning, they may address new information that does not fit into their existing
concepts or schemes by either forming a new scheme or changing an existing one. What is this process
called? - ANSWER - Accommodation
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