Chapter 4: Typical Physical Flashcards
Which one of the following illustrates the personal fable as psychologists use the term?
- William feels he’s invincible to the problems others face
- Johnathan feels he’s just like everybody else
William feels he is invincible, immortal, and immune to the problems others face
Which one of the following is the best example of a gross motor skill?
- sewing on a button
- cutting out a heart for a Valentine’s Day card
- skipping across the shoolyard
skipping across the schoolyard
Which one of the following statements best describes the physical exercise of teenagers in the United States?
Most do not get enough exercise to support good health in the course of their daily activities
Only one of the following statements is true. Which one?
- Nightmares are rare in children of all ages
- Lack of sleep can lead to difficulty controlling aggressive impulses
- The best way to put babies to sleep is to place them on their stomachs
Lack of sleep can lead to difficulty controlling aggressive impulses
In the human brain, a great deal of synaptic pruning occurs in the first few years of development. This pruning appears to be:
An adaptive process that allows children to deal more efficiently with their environment
Children have greater difficulty understanding and controlling their emotions than teenagers do. A primary reason is that:
Children process emotions at more primitive levels of the brain than teens do
Providing early childhood students (ages 2-6) with puzzles, blocks, doll houses, craft activities, and art projects that include finger painting and/or cutting with scissors are ways to encourage the development of:
fine motor skills
Physical development is characterized by both differentiation and integration. Which statement best describes the functioning of these two processes in physical development?
Differentiation and integration occur simultaneously and interactively
Tony March, a third-grade teacher, is in tune with his young students’ physical nees. This is reflected in his teaching when he:
has the children move “in orbit” as they pretend they are planets in our solar system
Six-year-olds Jason and Curtis are rolling around in the dirt in what appears to be a fight, yet they both get up smiling. Curtis then sticks out his tongue at Jason and runs off, and Jason follows him in hot pursuit. Which one of the following alternative best describes their interaction?
rough-and-tumble play
If high school students don’t always act in adult-like ways, it may be partly because:
their brains haven’t fully matured to adult levels
