DEP Exam 2 Study Guide Questions With
Correct Answers
The result of myelination on neural processing speed - answer✔✔Increases speed and efficiency
Activities that develop gross motor skills in early childhood - answer✔✔hopping, jumping,
running, jungle gyms
# of hours of sleep recommended by pediatricians in early childhood - answer✔✔11-13 hours
short sleep duration can lead to - answer✔✔overweight children
Causes and symptoms of anemia - answer✔✔iron deficiency and affects muscle and brain
function
Piaget's symbolic function - answer✔✔The 1st substage of pre-operational thought. Occurs
between 2-4 yrs, child gains ability to mentally represent and object that is not present.
Piaget's Ecocentrism - answer✔✔The inability to distinguish between one's own perspective and
someone else's.
Piaget's Animism - answer✔✔The belief that inanimate objects have life like qualities and are
capable of action.
Piaget's Conservation - answer✔✔The awareness that altering an object's or a substances
appearance does not change its basic properties
Piaget's Centration - answer✔✔A centering of attention on one characteristic to the exclusion of
all others.
Vygotsky's Zone of proximal development - answer✔✔Range of tasks that are too difficult for
the child to master alone but can be learned w/ guidance and assistance from adults or more
skilled children
(Vygostsky) Scaffolding - answer✔✔Changing the level of support
(Vygotsky) Private Speech - answer✔✔Use of language for self regulation
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Autism - answer✔✔Diagnosed by age 3, deficits in social interaction and communication skills,
high rate of repetitive behavior,indifference toward others, caused by abnormalities in the brain
structure and neurotransmitters, and genetic factors
Emotion-coaching parents - answer✔✔parents monitor their child's emotions and coaches them
how to deal effectively
Emotion-Dismissing Parents - answer✔✔Parents view their role to deny,ignore, or change
negative emotions
Empathy - answer✔✔ability to understand the emotions & concept of another person
Heteronomous Morality - answer✔✔4 - 7 years old, 1st stage of moral development. Children
think of justice and rules as unchangeable properties of the world, removed from the control of
people
Autonomous Morality - answer✔✔10 yrs old and up- become aware that rules and laws are
made up by people and in judging an action they consider the actor's intentions as well as the
consequesnces
Immanent Justice - answer✔✔The concept that if a rule is broken, punishment will be meted out
immediately.
Authoritarian Parenting - answer✔✔A restrictive punitive style in which parents exhort their
child to follow their directions and respect their work and effort. Places firm limits and allows
little verbal exchange
Authoritative Parenting - answer✔✔Encourages children to be independent but still places limits
on them and controls their actions. Extensive verbal give and take.
Neglectful Parenting - answer✔✔The parent is uninvolved in the child's life leaving the child to
feel that other aspects of their parents lives are more important
Indulgent parenting - answer✔✔Parents are highly involved but place few demands or controls
on them
Prefrontal cortex - answer✔✔highest level in the brain, leads to improved attention, reasoning,
and cognitive control
ADHD - answer✔✔characterized by Inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity, treated with Ritalin
and Adderall
Piaget's Concrete Operational Stage - answer✔✔Children can perform concrete operations and
can reason logically w/specific or concrete examples