4.1

Question 1

Changes in body shape and structure during preschool age

Answer 1

Children become less round, more slender
Muscle size increase
Bones become sturdier
Sense organs continue to develop

Question 2

How do economic factors play a role in child health and illness

Answer 2

Inner-city neighborhoods usually contain more hazards

Question 3

How does lead harm children?

Answer 3

Exposure is linked to less intelligence, problems with sensory processing, hyperactivity/distractibility, higher antisocial behavior
At very high levels of exposure, death

Question 4

Why does the brain grow so rapidly?

Answer 4

Increase in neuron interconnections

Myelination

Question 5

Lateralization

Answer 5

Process in which certain cognitive function are located more in one hemisphere of the brain than in the other

Question 6

What is the left hemisphere involved in

Answer 6

For most people, speaking, thinking, reading, reasoning

Question 7

What is the left hemisphere involved in

Answer 7

For most people, reflecting on information as a whole, in a global manner

Question 8

T/F there are individual and cultural differences in lateralization

Answer 8

True

People who are left handed have language centred in right hemi or have no language centre

Question 9

T/F there are gender differences in lateralization

Answer 9

True
There are differences in lower body reflexes
Boys show greater lateralization of language in left hemi

Question 10

What is a possible reason girls language development proceeds more rapidly during preschool years than boys

Answer 10

For girls, language is evenly divided between two hemis

Question 11

What are major gross motor skills in 2yr olds

Answer 11

Walks well
Running improves
Jump off floor with both feet
Jump from height of 30cm

Question 12

Can go up and down stairs one foot at a time, always leading with same foot

Answer 12

Can balance on one foot

Question 13

What are major gross motor skills in 3yr olds

Answer 13

Jump 36-60cm distance
Ascend a stairway alternating the feet
Can hop

Question 14

What are major gross motor skills in 4yr olds

Answer 14

Have better control of stopping, starting, and turning
Jump 60-83 cm distance
Descend stairway alternating feet, with support
Hopon one foot

Question 15

What are major gross motor skills in 5yr olds

Answer 15

Start, turn, stop effectively in games
Can make running jump of 71 to 91cm
Descend stairway alternating feet
Hop 5 metres

Question 16

What does the canadian pediatric society feel about the correct time to potty train?

Answer 16

There’s no correct time, it should start when the children are ready

Question 17

Signs of children being ready to potty train

Answer 17

Staying dry for at least 2 hours at a time during the day
Waking up dry after naps
Regular and predictable bowel movements
Facial expression or verbal indication that urination/bowel movement about to occur
Ability to follow simple instructions
Discomfort with soiled diapers
Desire to wear underwear

Question 18

What happens if children show strong signs of resistance to toilet training?

Answer 18

It should be put off

Question 19

When do children show signs of being ready for toilet training?

Answer 19

18-24mo

Question 20

How do cultural differences affect toilet training?

Answer 20

In some cultures, toilet training starts earlier, in some, later

Question 21

Handedness

Answer 21

Preferring to use one hand over the other

Question 22

When is handedness determined?

Answer 22

At conception