*** QUIZ WEEK 3-4 Flashcards
Numerous studies have determined that girls most often play in what ways in their play groups? They engage in ____.
Question 1Select one:
a.
rough and tumble, high activity and aggressive play
b.
quiet play, role playing, fantasy and cooperative play
c.
competitive play in which there is clear ‘winners’
d.
solitary play
b.
quiet play, role playing, fantasy and cooperative play
What term describes the social rules for using language in interaction with others?
Question 2Select one:
a.
Grammar
b.
Pragmatics
c.
Social Construction
d.
Animism
b.
Pragmatics
What parenting style is high in demandingness, but low in responsiveness?
Question 3Select one:
a.
Authoritative
b.
Authoritarian
c.
Permissive
d.
Disengaged
b.
Authoritarian
What is the term that is used to describe when individuals are unable to distinguish between their own perspective and another person’s perspective?
Question 4Answer
a.
Conservation
b.
Egocentrism
c.
Centration
d.
Reversibility
b.
Egocentrism
Your brother is very impressed with his 4-year-old daughter’s development, particularly in emotional regulation. He asks your opinion about his observations and you tell him that her advances in development are likely due to ____.
Question 5Answer
a.
superior genetics
b.
growth in her frontal lobe
c.
superior parenting
d.
the new preschool that she is now attending
b.
growth in her frontal lobe
Although their pronunciation of words is not as precise as it will become later, at what age can most toddlers speak clearly enough to make themselves understood about nearly anything they wish?
Question 6Answer
a.
1 year
b.
2 years
c.
3 years
d.
4 years
c.
3 years
The preoperational stage of cognitive development occurs between the ages of ____.
Question 7Answer
a.
birth and 2
b.
2 and 7
c.
7 and 11
d.
11 and adulthood
b.
2 and 7
a.
Instrumental aggression
b.
Hostile aggression
c.
Physical aggression
d.
Verbal aggression
b.
Hostile aggression
What group of children is more likely to be more independent and socially confident?
Question 9Answer
a.
Children who are from families who had parents who were professionals
b.
Children from affluent families
c.
Children who attend preschool
d.
Children from low-income families
Children who attend preschool
_____ lobe grows faster than the rest of the cerebral cortex during early childhood.
Question 10Select one:
a.
The frontal
b.
The parietal
c.
The occipital
d.
The temporal
.
The frontal
____ is when children focus attention on managing their emotions.
Question 11Answer
a.
Effortful control
b.
Emotions management
c.
External regulation
d.
Extraterrestrial force
a.
Effortful control
Research suggests children from what group especially benefit cognitively from preschool?
Question 12Select one:
a.
Families who had parents who were professionals
b.
Affluent families
c.
Divorced families
d.
Low-income families
d.
Low-income families
As a child becomes better at perspective-taking and develops a greater ability to understand the emotions and feelings of others, he or she will have a greater capacity to experience ____.
Question 13Select one:
a.
primary emotions
b.
empathy
c.
egocentrism
d.
animism
b.
empathy
Self-reflection enables toddlers to develop ____.
Question 14Answer
a.
the social metric scale
b.
biological awareness
c.
sociomoral emotions
d.
self-recognition
c.
sociomoral emotions
According to Piaget, children from the ages of 2 to 7 are in the ____ stage of cognitive development.
Question 15Select one:
a.
sensorimotor
b.
preoperational
c.
concrete operations
d.
formal operations
.
preoperational
Evolutionary perspectives on the importance of play emphasise:
Question 16Select one:
a.
Play occurs across human cultures
b.
Play is observed in animal species
c.
Play provides an opportunity to practice skills required for adulthood
d.
All of the above
d.
All of the above
During early childhood, emotional self-regulation is considered ____.
Question 17Select one:
a.
very unlikely to be accomplished
b.
one of the major developmental tasks
c.
not possible until the child completely understands the concept of ‘self’
d.
entirely influenced by environmental factors
b.
one of the major developmental tasks
Mehrak lives in Australia and measures 108 centimetres. She is in good health and her paediatrician says she is developing at a normal pace. It is safe to say that Mehrak is around ____.
Question 18Answer
a.
3 years old
b.
4 years old
c.
5 years old
d.
6 years old
c.
5 years old
A friend is worried about his son, who is very active and is constantly injuring himself. What would you tell him to help him worry less? This behaviour is very typical because his son’s ____.
Question 19Answer
a.
motor development is advanced enough to do quite a bit, but his cognitive development is not able to anticipate situations that might be dangerous
b.
motor development is not yet very advanced and he is going to be involved in many accidents
c.
visual processing is lagging behind his motor development and he simply cannot see very well
d.
attention skills are not yet fully developed and his son is likely to not pay attention to his father’s warnings to be careful
a.
motor development is advanced enough to do quite a bit, but his cognitive development is not able to anticipate situations that might be dangerous
