OSAT Early Childhood Education- PRACTICE TEST Questions and Answers(A+ Solution guide)

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 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 IIWhen 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%