CHILD DEVELOPMENT EXAM 4 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
a child's favorite blanket. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅An example of a transitional object
2 to 3 inches - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅During early childhood, children grow ___ per year.
nightmare - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Gerard went out for dinner and watched a horror movie with his
parents at the cinemas. The next morning, he woke up sweating and scared after having dreamt of the
ghost in the movie. Gerard experienced a
Skipping - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅gross motor skill
typical 6-year-old - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅sleep through the night without any daytime naps.
tying shoelaces - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅fine motor skills
From ages 3 to 6, the most rapid growth occurs in the frontal areas of the brain. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Which of the following is true of early childhood brain growth and development?
Handedness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅is usually evident by about age 3.
Corpus callosum - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅links the left and right hemispheres of the brain
childhood sleep behaviors - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Children who experience night terrors are typically
unaware of episodes of disturbance the next morning.
animism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Four-year-old Karl tells his father, "I told the wind to blow, so it made
my kite fly." This is an example of
, retrieval - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Karen's mother asked her if she knew where her father had kept the
gardening tools after the two of them did some gardening together on Sunday. This question from her
mother is likely to initiate a process called _____ in Karen's memory.
4 years - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Many children can classify by two criteria, such as color and shape, by
the age of
Episodic memory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Molly, a five-year-old, was taken to the circus six months ago
by her family. She still remembers meeting the clowns and watching the trapezium show at the circus.
Which of the following types of childhood memory would store such a memory?
irreversibility - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Piaget's term for a preoperational child's failure to understand
that an operation can go in two or more directions is known as _____.
conservation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Piaget's term for awareness that two objects that are equal
according to a certain measure remain equal in the face of perceptual alteration so long as nothing has
been added to or taken away from either object is known as _____.
engage in symbolic thought. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The preoperational stage of cognitive
development marks a major qualitative leap in thinking because it ushers in the ability to
zone of proximal development (ZPD) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Vygotsky's term for the difference
between what a child can do alone and what the child can do with help
Project Head Start - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The program provides medical, dental, and mental health
care, social services, and at least one hot meal a day.
Pragmatics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅__________ refers to the practical knowledge needed to use
language for communicative purposes.
cognitive-developmental theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Gender constancy is the realization that one's
sex will never change
a child's favorite blanket. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅An example of a transitional object
2 to 3 inches - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅During early childhood, children grow ___ per year.
nightmare - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Gerard went out for dinner and watched a horror movie with his
parents at the cinemas. The next morning, he woke up sweating and scared after having dreamt of the
ghost in the movie. Gerard experienced a
Skipping - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅gross motor skill
typical 6-year-old - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅sleep through the night without any daytime naps.
tying shoelaces - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅fine motor skills
From ages 3 to 6, the most rapid growth occurs in the frontal areas of the brain. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Which of the following is true of early childhood brain growth and development?
Handedness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅is usually evident by about age 3.
Corpus callosum - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅links the left and right hemispheres of the brain
childhood sleep behaviors - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Children who experience night terrors are typically
unaware of episodes of disturbance the next morning.
animism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Four-year-old Karl tells his father, "I told the wind to blow, so it made
my kite fly." This is an example of
, retrieval - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Karen's mother asked her if she knew where her father had kept the
gardening tools after the two of them did some gardening together on Sunday. This question from her
mother is likely to initiate a process called _____ in Karen's memory.
4 years - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Many children can classify by two criteria, such as color and shape, by
the age of
Episodic memory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Molly, a five-year-old, was taken to the circus six months ago
by her family. She still remembers meeting the clowns and watching the trapezium show at the circus.
Which of the following types of childhood memory would store such a memory?
irreversibility - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Piaget's term for a preoperational child's failure to understand
that an operation can go in two or more directions is known as _____.
conservation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Piaget's term for awareness that two objects that are equal
according to a certain measure remain equal in the face of perceptual alteration so long as nothing has
been added to or taken away from either object is known as _____.
engage in symbolic thought. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The preoperational stage of cognitive
development marks a major qualitative leap in thinking because it ushers in the ability to
zone of proximal development (ZPD) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Vygotsky's term for the difference
between what a child can do alone and what the child can do with help
Project Head Start - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The program provides medical, dental, and mental health
care, social services, and at least one hot meal a day.
Pragmatics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅__________ refers to the practical knowledge needed to use
language for communicative purposes.
cognitive-developmental theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Gender constancy is the realization that one's
sex will never change
