Chapter 1~Test

Question 0

What is a caregiver?

Answer 0

A person who takes care of a child

Question 1

What is typical behavior?

Answer 1

A way of acting or responding that is common at each stage

Question 2

What is stimulation?

Answer 2

Any activity that arouses a baby’s sense if sight, touch, sound, and taste

Question 3

What does heredity mean?

Answer 3

The biological transfer of certain characteristics from earlier generations

Question 4

Environment is?

Answer 4

The people, places, and things that surround and influence a person

Question 5

Self esteem is?

Answer 5

The self worth or value people place on them selves.

Question 6

What does it mean to have a subjective observation?

Answer 6

To rely on personal opinions and feelings.

Question 7

What is the human life cycle?

Answer 7

A set of stages of human development

Question 8

What is a developmental task?

Answer 8

The challenge to be met or skill to be acquired in each stage of the human life cycle

Question 9

What does it mean to have an objective observation?

Answer 9

A observation that is factual and leaves aside and personal feelings and prejudices

Question 10

What is a running record?

Answer 10

A record of everything observed for a set amount of time

Question 11

Anecdotal Records are?

Answer 11

A report of a child’s action

Question 12

What is a frequency count?

Answer 12

A tally of how often a behavior occurs.

Question 13

What is the difference between a running record and a frequency count?

Answer 13

A running record is an observation if everything and anything but a frequency count is a tally to see go many times only one behavior is occurring.

Question 14

What is a baseline?

Answer 14

A count made before any steps are taken

Question 15

What is a developmental checklist?

Answer 15

A list if skills children should master by a certain time.

Question 16

What is an interpretation?

Answer 16

The analysis an observer forms and expresses about what was observed.

Question 17

What does it mean to have a confidentiality policy?

Answer 17

Confidentiality is the protection of another persons privacy by limiting access to personal information.

Question 18

What are four ways you can benefit from studying children?

Answer 18

Learning why children feel, think and act the way they do, discover a caregivers importance, enjoy children more, learn about career opportunities.

Question 19

Why is it important to play with children?

Answer 19

Play is how children learn.

Question 20

How might studying about children affect your views if childhood?

Answer 20

It depends on what your childhood was like. Everyone has different views and experiences.

Question 21

How developed is a baby’s brain at birth? How does it change by age three?

Answer 21

A child’s brain is the least developed of all the organs at birth. It is 1/4 the size of an adults brain. At age 3 children’s brains have already made trillions of connections among the brain cells.

Question 22

How does stimulation help a baby develop?

Answer 22

Babies who receive stimulation develop more quickly and have a more secure self image.

Question 23

What was Freud’s development theory?

Answer 23

That personality develops through a series of stages

Question 24

What did Piaget believe?

Answer 24

That children go through four stages of learning

Question 25

What did Vygotsky believe in?

Answer 25

He wrote that a child’s ability to learn is influenced by biological development and cultural experiences

Question 26

Eriksons theory was?

Answer 26

That personality develops in stages based in a unique phsyco logical crisis.

Question 27

What was Skinners developmental theory?

Answer 27

When a child’s actions have positive results they will be repeated

Question 28

What was Babdura’s theory?

Answer 28

Children learn by imitating others

Question 29

What about Bronfenbrenner?

Answer 29

He outline layers of environment that affect a child’s development

Question 30

How should you position yourself an interact with children while observing them?

Answer 30

You should blend in and avoid calling attention to yourself

Question 31

What is the difference between observation and interpretation?

Answer 31

Observing is when you watch over a child and take notes on everything they do and should not be subjective notes but objective. An interpretation is when you compile all the notes you took and make an interpretation of the child, what you made of the observations.