CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND GUIDANCE CHAPTER 3 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024

CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND GUIDANCE CHAPTER 3 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SO LUTIONS 2024 By age 3, most children can walk, run, jump, and climb with good balance and coordination - ANSWER TRUE: By three years of age, most children are physically active and learning to use their bodies skillfully. They have good coordination and balance when wa lking, running, jumping, and climbing. Most three -year -olds can climb stairs unassisted and can draw lines confidently, copy a circle from a drawing, and do simple puzzles. - ANSWER TRUE: Three -year -olds' improved coordination makes it possible for them to climb stairs unassisted, build nine - or ten -block towers, draw lines, copy circles, and do simple puzzles. At age two -and-a-half, most children can throw a ball both overhanded and underhanded. - ANSWER FALSE: The ability to throw a ball both overhanded and underhanded is typically not well developed until age three -and-a-half. Walking backwards is a new skill for three -year -olds. - ANSWER TRUE: Their improved coordination and balance allow three -year -olds to walk backwards and also sideways. At three -and-a-half, children typically experience a temporary interruption in the smoothness of their large muscle actions. - ANSWER TRUE: Periods of disequilibrium in preschoolers' development are typically the result of growth changes. Most young preschoolers understand the mathematical concept of one -to-one correspondence. - ANSWER FALSE: Most young preschoolers have not developed an understanding of the mathematical concept of one -to-one correspondence. Most young preschoolers can answer "What" questions about familiar things. - ANSWER TRUE: Most young preschoolers are eager learners. They can identify the different object when given two objects that are alike and one that is different. They can sort obje cts of two different colors. During the preschool period children begin to learn to arrange things in a sequence. - ANSWER TRUE: During this period children are developing a sense of orderliness and are beginning to learn sequential thinking (to arrange things in a sequence), which is related to the sense of order. They have some sense of today, yesterday, and tomorrow. Most young preschoolers are fearful of new experiences - ANSWER FALSE: Most young preschoolers are curious and energetic learners who are eager for new experiences. By age three, few children know their own age. - ANSWER FALSE: Young preschoolers are developing longer memory spans. By age three, most children know their name, their age, and their own gender. Young preschoolers enjoy language and are eager to learn new words. - ANSWER TRUE: Young preschoolers like to talk and also enjoy scribbling and mock writing. They love new words, just as they love new experiences. Young preschoolers enjoy talking to adults but seldom talk to other children. - ANSWER FALSE: Young preschoolers are beginning to talk more to other children as well as adults. They also engage in much self-talk, describing their own actions as they play. The adult's best response to children's stuttering is to tell the child to slow down and start over. - ANSWER FALSE: Adults' best action when children stutter is to calmly give the child sincere and undivided attention as he speaks. Your accepting manner a s you listen intently will do more than anything else to reduce the child's stuttering. Never call attention to children's stuttering in any way. In particular, do not attempt to correct stuttering by telling children to slow down or to repeat what they are trying to say. Young preschoolers are usually unaware of their own emotions. - ANSWER FALSE: Young preschoolers are making advances in their ability to recognize and talk about their own emotions. During the early preschool years children typically become more independent and self -confident. - ANSWER TRUE: Young preschoolers' increasing sense of independence and self -confidence contributes to their eagerness for new experiences. Young preschoolers interact best in groups of three or four. - ANSWER FALSE: Young preschoolers typically interact best in groups of tw