OSAT: Early Childhood Exam Questions And Answers Rated A+ New Update Assured Satisfaction

Sensorimotor Period: Birth to One Month - Answer Infants learn to comprehend their environment through their inborn reflexes Preoperational Stage of Cognitive Development - Answer o Roughly bet`ween the ages of 2-6 years old o Begin to use objects to represent things, i.e, symbolic representation o Play pretend/Make believe. o Their thinking is intuitive rather than following logical steps o "Egocentric" in that they cannot adopt another's point of view Sensorimotor Period: 1-4 months - Answer Babies begin to coordinate their physical sensations with new schemas Sensorimotor Period: 4-8 Months - Answer Children also repeat rewarding actions, but now they are focused on things in the environment that they can affect, rather than just the child's own person. Sensorimotor Period: 8-12 months - Answer Infants begin further exploring their surroundings. Sensorimotor Period: 12-18 months - Answer Children begin experimenting through trial-and-error. Sensorimotor Period: 18-24 months - Answer Children begin representing objects and events with symbols. Begin to understand the world via not only actions, but mental operations. Schema - Answer Mental constructs or concepts that represent elements of the environment. A category or class of things. Assimilation - Answer When we fit something into an existing schema Accommodation - Answer When something new cannot be assimilated into an existing schema, we either modify that schema or form a new schemaconservation - Answer o The cognitive ability to understand that objects or substances retain their properties of numbers or amounts even when their appearance, shape, or configuration changes Sociocultural Theory - Answer Believed that all children's mental, language and social development is supported by and enhanced through social interactions