CHILD LIFE EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS TAGGED A+
✔✔Interventions: Advocacy - ✔✔Advocating parent involvement during treatments
age appropriate language
are coordination
Family centered care is reflected in policy making
✔✔Interventions: Environment - ✔✔Decor is child/family friendly
Access to play area
Play area has supplies available
Comfortable accommodations for parents
Literature and Educational material are family centered
✔✔Overview of Interventions: American Academy of Pediatrics - ✔✔Play and Age
appropriate communication used to promote development, present information, plan
coping, work through feelings, establish therapeutic relationship
✔✔Piaget's Stages - ✔✔Sensorimotor
Preoperational
Concrete Operations
Formal Operations
✔✔Freud's Stages - ✔✔Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latent
Genital
✔✔Erikson's Stages - ✔✔Trust v mistrust
Autonomy v Shame and Doubt
Initiative v Guilt
Industry v Inferiority
Identity v Role Confusion
✔✔Brofenbrenner - ✔✔Ecological Systems Theory
Microsystems and Macrosystems
✔✔Vygotsky - ✔✔Zone of Proximal Development
Scaffolding
✔✔Bandura - ✔✔Social Learning Theory
Children are active participants in their environment: Attention, Retention, Imitation and
Reinforcement
, ✔✔Bowlby - ✔✔Attachment Theory
Secure attachment and Insecure attachment
✔✔Ainsworth - ✔✔Strange Situation Theory
Secure, Ambivalent, Avoidant
✔✔Chess & Thomas - ✔✔Temperament
Easy, Difficult, Slow to Warm
✔✔Lazarus & Folkman - ✔✔Stress & Coping Theory
coping, internal and external demands that can be appraised as taxing for the person
✔✔Family Systems Theory - ✔✔Seeing the family as a whole instead of as individual
members
✔✔Robertson - ✔✔Separation in Hospital
Protest - Fussing
Despair - Depressed
Detachment - Don't care about separation
✔✔Principals of Growth and Development - ✔✔growth is orderly, development includes
physical, cognitive, psychosocial, individual differences, critical periods
✔✔cephalocaudal - ✔✔head to toe
✔✔proximodistal - ✔✔midline - outward
✔✔Gross Motor Skills - ✔✔large muscle movement
✔✔Fine Motor Skills - ✔✔small muscle movements
✔✔cognitive development - ✔✔thinking and reasoning about the world
✔✔Psychosocial development - ✔✔involving, psychological, emotional and social
learning
✔✔Infancy: Gross Motor - ✔✔Newborn: head lags
6 Months: easily lifts, head, chest and abdomen
2 Months: needs full support to sit up
8 months: can sit up independently
✔✔Infancy: Fine Motor - ✔✔Newborn: hand grasp
6 Month: palm grasp
12 Months: pincer grap, index and thumb to move small objects
WITH ANSWERS TAGGED A+
✔✔Interventions: Advocacy - ✔✔Advocating parent involvement during treatments
age appropriate language
are coordination
Family centered care is reflected in policy making
✔✔Interventions: Environment - ✔✔Decor is child/family friendly
Access to play area
Play area has supplies available
Comfortable accommodations for parents
Literature and Educational material are family centered
✔✔Overview of Interventions: American Academy of Pediatrics - ✔✔Play and Age
appropriate communication used to promote development, present information, plan
coping, work through feelings, establish therapeutic relationship
✔✔Piaget's Stages - ✔✔Sensorimotor
Preoperational
Concrete Operations
Formal Operations
✔✔Freud's Stages - ✔✔Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latent
Genital
✔✔Erikson's Stages - ✔✔Trust v mistrust
Autonomy v Shame and Doubt
Initiative v Guilt
Industry v Inferiority
Identity v Role Confusion
✔✔Brofenbrenner - ✔✔Ecological Systems Theory
Microsystems and Macrosystems
✔✔Vygotsky - ✔✔Zone of Proximal Development
Scaffolding
✔✔Bandura - ✔✔Social Learning Theory
Children are active participants in their environment: Attention, Retention, Imitation and
Reinforcement
, ✔✔Bowlby - ✔✔Attachment Theory
Secure attachment and Insecure attachment
✔✔Ainsworth - ✔✔Strange Situation Theory
Secure, Ambivalent, Avoidant
✔✔Chess & Thomas - ✔✔Temperament
Easy, Difficult, Slow to Warm
✔✔Lazarus & Folkman - ✔✔Stress & Coping Theory
coping, internal and external demands that can be appraised as taxing for the person
✔✔Family Systems Theory - ✔✔Seeing the family as a whole instead of as individual
members
✔✔Robertson - ✔✔Separation in Hospital
Protest - Fussing
Despair - Depressed
Detachment - Don't care about separation
✔✔Principals of Growth and Development - ✔✔growth is orderly, development includes
physical, cognitive, psychosocial, individual differences, critical periods
✔✔cephalocaudal - ✔✔head to toe
✔✔proximodistal - ✔✔midline - outward
✔✔Gross Motor Skills - ✔✔large muscle movement
✔✔Fine Motor Skills - ✔✔small muscle movements
✔✔cognitive development - ✔✔thinking and reasoning about the world
✔✔Psychosocial development - ✔✔involving, psychological, emotional and social
learning
✔✔Infancy: Gross Motor - ✔✔Newborn: head lags
6 Months: easily lifts, head, chest and abdomen
2 Months: needs full support to sit up
8 months: can sit up independently
✔✔Infancy: Fine Motor - ✔✔Newborn: hand grasp
6 Month: palm grasp
12 Months: pincer grap, index and thumb to move small objects
