DEP Exam 2 Study Guide Questions With
Correct Answers
The result of myelination on neural processing speed - answer✔✔this has the effect of increasing
the speed and efficiency of information traveling through the nervous system
myelination - answer✔✔the process by which the nerve cells are covered and insulated with a
layer of fat cells, which increases the speed at which information travels through the nervous
system
Activities that develop gross motor skills in early childhood - answer✔✔age 3 - hopping,
jumping, and running back and forth
age 4 - same as age 3 plus they scramble over low jungle gyms
age 5 - stunts, climbing, run hard and enjoy races with each other and their parents
The number of hours of sleep recommended by pediatricians - answer✔✔11 - 13hrs
What short sleep duration in early childhood is correlated with - answer✔✔research studies link
the following to it, attention problems and being overweight
Cause and symptoms of anemia - answer✔✔-cause - malnutrition- failure to eat adequate
amounts of quality meats and dark green vegetables
-symptoms - chronic fatigue
-children from low-income families are most likely to develop this
Symbolic function - answer✔✔Piaget's first substage of preoperational thought, in which the
child gains the ability to mentally represent an object that is not present (between about 2 and 4
years of age).
Egocentrism - answer✔✔The inability to distinguish between one's own perspective and
someone else's (salient feature of the first substage of preoperational thought).
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Animism - answer✔✔The belief that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities and are capable of
action.
Conservation - answer✔✔In Piaget's theory, awareness that altering an object's or a substance's
appearance does not change its basic properties.
Centration - answer✔✔Focusing attention on one characteristic to the exclusion of all others.
Zone of proximal development - answer✔✔Vygotsky's term for tasks that are too difficult for
children to master alone but can be mastered with the assistance of adults or more-skilled
children.
Scaffolding - answer✔✔-changing the level of support
-over the course of a teaching session, a more-skilled person (a teacher or advanced peer) adjusts
the amount of guidance to fit the child's current performance.
Private speech - answer✔✔-the use of language for self-regulation
-Vygotsky view- when young children talk to themselves they are using language to govern their
behavior and guide themselves
-these child are more socially competent.
-represents early transition in becoming more socially communicative
Rehearsal - answer✔✔-cognitive process in which information is repeated over and over as a
possible way of learning and remembering it
-considered and ineffective way of getting information to the long-term memory
Autism - symptoms and cause - answer✔✔cause - brain dysfunction involving abnormalities in
brain structure and neurotransmitters
symptoms - deficits in social interaction and communication skills, high rates of repetitive
behaviors or interests, show indifference towards others, prefer to be alone, show more interest
in objects than people
emotion-coaching parents - answer✔✔monitor their children's emotions, view their children's
negative emotions as opportunities for teaching, assist them in labeling emotions, and coach
them in how to deal effectively with emotions
emotion-dismissing parents - answer✔✔view their role as to deny, ignore, or change negative
emotions