OSAT- CEOE Study Guide: Early
Childhood Education 2024/2025 Exam
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Erkison's Psychosocial theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔nuclear conflict that must
be resolved
Psychosocial theory stage for infants (birth-18 months) - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Trust vs. Mistrust
Psychosocial theory stage for toddlers (18 months-3 years) - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
Psychosocial theory stage for preschoolers (3-5 years) - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Initiative vs guilt
Psychosocial theory for early childhood (5 to 6- puberty) - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Industry vs. Inferiority
Bowlby's attachment theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔there is a biological basis for
attachment that triggers a protective response
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,Securely attached children - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔show normal separation
anxiety and avoid strangers
Insecure and resistant children - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔show exaggerated
separation anxiety and explore less
Insecure and avoidant children - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔show no separation or
stranger anxiety
Insecure and disorganized children - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔dazed and confused
and respond inconsistently
secure attachement style shows - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔sensitive caregiving
resistant and ambivalent shows - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔inconsistent caregiving
and is most predictive of emotional disturbances
Freud's Psychosexual Stages - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔oral stage, anal stage,
phallic stage, latency stage, genital stage
Oral stage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Birth to 18 months. Infants seek pleasure
through the mouth
Anal stage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔18-36 months focus on potty training
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, Phallic stage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔3-6 years; child's pleasure focuses on the
genitals
Latency stage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔6-puberty focus on developing skills
genetal stage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔puberty and older; focus on sexuality and
maturity
Oedipal conflict (complex) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔boys desire their mother and
compete for her affection with their father; may show aggression towards
father
Electra conflict - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a girl's sexual attraction to her father and
feelings of rivalry with her mother
Id - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔pleasure principle; instinctual urges
Ego - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔reality principle; sense of self with reality
Superego - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔conscience; sense of morality
Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔behavior, environment,
and cognition are the key factors in development
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Childhood Education 2024/2025 Exam
Questions Marking Scheme New Update
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Erkison's Psychosocial theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔nuclear conflict that must
be resolved
Psychosocial theory stage for infants (birth-18 months) - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Trust vs. Mistrust
Psychosocial theory stage for toddlers (18 months-3 years) - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
Psychosocial theory stage for preschoolers (3-5 years) - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Initiative vs guilt
Psychosocial theory for early childhood (5 to 6- puberty) - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Industry vs. Inferiority
Bowlby's attachment theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔there is a biological basis for
attachment that triggers a protective response
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,Securely attached children - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔show normal separation
anxiety and avoid strangers
Insecure and resistant children - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔show exaggerated
separation anxiety and explore less
Insecure and avoidant children - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔show no separation or
stranger anxiety
Insecure and disorganized children - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔dazed and confused
and respond inconsistently
secure attachement style shows - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔sensitive caregiving
resistant and ambivalent shows - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔inconsistent caregiving
and is most predictive of emotional disturbances
Freud's Psychosexual Stages - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔oral stage, anal stage,
phallic stage, latency stage, genital stage
Oral stage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Birth to 18 months. Infants seek pleasure
through the mouth
Anal stage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔18-36 months focus on potty training
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, Phallic stage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔3-6 years; child's pleasure focuses on the
genitals
Latency stage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔6-puberty focus on developing skills
genetal stage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔puberty and older; focus on sexuality and
maturity
Oedipal conflict (complex) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔boys desire their mother and
compete for her affection with their father; may show aggression towards
father
Electra conflict - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a girl's sexual attraction to her father and
feelings of rivalry with her mother
Id - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔pleasure principle; instinctual urges
Ego - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔reality principle; sense of self with reality
Superego - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔conscience; sense of morality
Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔behavior, environment,
and cognition are the key factors in development
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