DCF: Child Growth and Development CGAD Exam
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How can you resolve conflicts and create a resilient social and emotional life? -
ANSWER -By encouraging trust, autonomy, initiative, and industry.
What is Jean Piaget's theory called? - ANSWER -The Four Stages of Cognitive
Development
What is Jean Piaget most known for? - ANSWER -His work on the psychology of
intelligence.
What was Jean Piaget interested in? - ANSWER -Learning how children develop
an intellectual understanding of the world.
What was Jean Piaget's theory based on? - ANSWER -The concept of cognitive
structures. These structures are patterns of physical or mental action that underlie
acts of intelligence and correspond to stages of child development.
What does Piaget assume about humans? - ANSWER -They take the information
that they recieve and process it,then react to it.
According to Piaget,children develop the ability to learn in how many basic
stages? - ANSWER -4
In each of Jean Piaget's stages what does development focus on? - ANSWER -
Acquiring a diffrent set of related characteristics and abilities.
What are the Four Stages of Cognitive Development? - ANSWER -1-
Sensorimotor (0-2 years)
2- Preoperational (2-7 years)
3-Concrete-operational (7-11 years)
4-Formal Operations (11+ years)
What are the signs of sensorimotor? - ANSWER -*Explore their world through
senses and motor skills.
*Understand the world by physically manipulating objects.
,*Trial and error problem solving
*Object permanence child does not know that physical objects remain in existence
when out of sight.
What are signs of preoperational? - ANSWER -*Preschoolers and early school-
age children learn about their world through their actions.
*Uses symbols to mentally represent objects.
*Increase development of language and concepts.
*Reasoning may be illogical and not sequential.
*Egocentric thought processes
What are signs of concrete-operational? - ANSWER -*Older school-age children
learn about their world by applying logic.
*Deal with changes and process
*Are able to make relationships about why things happen.
*Understand how things relate to one another
What are signs of formal operations? - ANSWER -*Early high-school schildren
learn about their world through constructing and solving problems.
*Begin to think about thinking
*Think in abstract terms
*Make educated guesses
How does knowledge of Jean Piaget's four stages help you the child care provider?
- ANSWER -The stages help you understand how babies and children may
percieve their envirnment.
When you plan developmentally appropriate learning activities what is important
to keep in mind? - ANSWER -A child's stage of cognitive development
What does Piaget's theory help you understand? - ANSWER -Why children make
thinking "mistakes"
What are two primary instructional techniques that are based on Piaget's theory? -
ANSWER -Discovery learning and supporting the developing interests of children.
Children should be exposed to a wide variety of concrete experiences such as? -
ANSWER -*Use of manipulative field trips and working in groups to help them
learn
, What did Lev Vygotsky develop? - ANSWER -He developed the social
development theory of learning
What did Lev Vygotsky theorize? - ANSWER -That social and cultural interaction
are the primary sources of learning and behavior.
What were some of Vygotsky's major theory ideas? - ANSWER -*Children
acquire knowledge through culture.
*Children learn through problem solving experiences shared with a knowledgeable
abult or peer.
*A child can perform a task under adult guidance or with peer collaboartion that
could not be achieved alone. Vygotsky called this the zone of proximal and
claimed that learning occured in this zone.
What is scaffolding? - ANSWER -An instrumental technique where a person
interacting with the child assumes more responsibility for guiding the learning. As
the child learns,the responsibility is gradually transferred to him.
How can child care professionals use the information from vygotsky's theory? -
ANSWER -*Give them things within in their range of ability
*Pair children up
Where must Learning environments be developed? - ANSWER -Where children
play an active role in their own education as well as the educatiom of their peers.
The adult collaborates with children in order to create meaing in ways that
childrencan make their own.
What does the culture that surrounds children and their social interaction lead to? -
ANSWER -Continous step-by-step changes in their learning and behavior.
What factors influence child's growth and development? - ANSWER -...This
course will teach you the basic principals of child growth and development.
What are the developmental domains? - ANSWER -...you will learn how these
principles affect children's learning.
Define Growth - ANSWER -A is specific body changes and increases in the
child's size,such as height,weight,head circumference and body mass index.
Questions and Answers Verified 100% Correct
How can you resolve conflicts and create a resilient social and emotional life? -
ANSWER -By encouraging trust, autonomy, initiative, and industry.
What is Jean Piaget's theory called? - ANSWER -The Four Stages of Cognitive
Development
What is Jean Piaget most known for? - ANSWER -His work on the psychology of
intelligence.
What was Jean Piaget interested in? - ANSWER -Learning how children develop
an intellectual understanding of the world.
What was Jean Piaget's theory based on? - ANSWER -The concept of cognitive
structures. These structures are patterns of physical or mental action that underlie
acts of intelligence and correspond to stages of child development.
What does Piaget assume about humans? - ANSWER -They take the information
that they recieve and process it,then react to it.
According to Piaget,children develop the ability to learn in how many basic
stages? - ANSWER -4
In each of Jean Piaget's stages what does development focus on? - ANSWER -
Acquiring a diffrent set of related characteristics and abilities.
What are the Four Stages of Cognitive Development? - ANSWER -1-
Sensorimotor (0-2 years)
2- Preoperational (2-7 years)
3-Concrete-operational (7-11 years)
4-Formal Operations (11+ years)
What are the signs of sensorimotor? - ANSWER -*Explore their world through
senses and motor skills.
*Understand the world by physically manipulating objects.
,*Trial and error problem solving
*Object permanence child does not know that physical objects remain in existence
when out of sight.
What are signs of preoperational? - ANSWER -*Preschoolers and early school-
age children learn about their world through their actions.
*Uses symbols to mentally represent objects.
*Increase development of language and concepts.
*Reasoning may be illogical and not sequential.
*Egocentric thought processes
What are signs of concrete-operational? - ANSWER -*Older school-age children
learn about their world by applying logic.
*Deal with changes and process
*Are able to make relationships about why things happen.
*Understand how things relate to one another
What are signs of formal operations? - ANSWER -*Early high-school schildren
learn about their world through constructing and solving problems.
*Begin to think about thinking
*Think in abstract terms
*Make educated guesses
How does knowledge of Jean Piaget's four stages help you the child care provider?
- ANSWER -The stages help you understand how babies and children may
percieve their envirnment.
When you plan developmentally appropriate learning activities what is important
to keep in mind? - ANSWER -A child's stage of cognitive development
What does Piaget's theory help you understand? - ANSWER -Why children make
thinking "mistakes"
What are two primary instructional techniques that are based on Piaget's theory? -
ANSWER -Discovery learning and supporting the developing interests of children.
Children should be exposed to a wide variety of concrete experiences such as? -
ANSWER -*Use of manipulative field trips and working in groups to help them
learn
, What did Lev Vygotsky develop? - ANSWER -He developed the social
development theory of learning
What did Lev Vygotsky theorize? - ANSWER -That social and cultural interaction
are the primary sources of learning and behavior.
What were some of Vygotsky's major theory ideas? - ANSWER -*Children
acquire knowledge through culture.
*Children learn through problem solving experiences shared with a knowledgeable
abult or peer.
*A child can perform a task under adult guidance or with peer collaboartion that
could not be achieved alone. Vygotsky called this the zone of proximal and
claimed that learning occured in this zone.
What is scaffolding? - ANSWER -An instrumental technique where a person
interacting with the child assumes more responsibility for guiding the learning. As
the child learns,the responsibility is gradually transferred to him.
How can child care professionals use the information from vygotsky's theory? -
ANSWER -*Give them things within in their range of ability
*Pair children up
Where must Learning environments be developed? - ANSWER -Where children
play an active role in their own education as well as the educatiom of their peers.
The adult collaborates with children in order to create meaing in ways that
childrencan make their own.
What does the culture that surrounds children and their social interaction lead to? -
ANSWER -Continous step-by-step changes in their learning and behavior.
What factors influence child's growth and development? - ANSWER -...This
course will teach you the basic principals of child growth and development.
What are the developmental domains? - ANSWER -...you will learn how these
principles affect children's learning.
Define Growth - ANSWER -A is specific body changes and increases in the
child's size,such as height,weight,head circumference and body mass index.
