OSAT Early Childhood Education- Final Exam |100% Correct|

OSAT Early Childhood Education- Final Exam |100% Correct| A child who correctly use irregular past tenses of verbs would be in which of Roger Brown's stages of Syntactic and Morphological Development? *Ans*Stage III According to Carl Rogers, a child who relies primarily on external locus of control demonstrates: *Ans*conditional positive self-regard According to Murry Bowen's Family Systems Theory, which of the following accurately reflects what he called the Family Projection Process? *Ans*Parental perception of child problems can become self fulfilling prophecy in the child's self-image According to Piaget's theory, in what age range do children begin representing things with symbols? *Ans*Between 18 and 24 months According to Roger Brown, a child who indicates the regular plural by saying "My toys" is in which of his Stages of Syntactical and Morphological Development? *Ans*Stage II According to Roger Brown's (1973) Stage I sentence types, which of these is classified under "Operations of Reference" *Ans*a negation Among the following auditory disabilities, which one does not involve any part of the hearing mechanism? *Ans*Central auditory processing disorder By the time they are two years old, children's brains typically have grown to ______ of their adult sizes. *Ans*55% For children with a primarily visual learning style, which material would be most effective to give them to help them understand abstract concepts and relationships? *Ans*multicolor graphics From birth to the age of 2 years, children typically grow to ______ times their newborn weights *Ans*four How much usable play space at a minimum do experts recommend for indoor and outdoor early childhood learning environments? *Ans*At least 35 sq. ft. indoors and 75 sq. ft. outdoors In Adler's psychoanalytic theory, which of these did he believe about male/female siblings in family birth orders? *Ans*Boy siblings of an only girl can behave protectively toward her; she may make extra effort to please the father In Brown's (1973) Stages of Syntactical and Morphological Development, which of these age ranges is associated with what he designated as Stage I? *Ans*15-30 months In which of the six stages of art growth and development do children begin to develop a visual schema? *Ans*Preschematic Of the following, which is true of Siegfried Engelmann's contributions to early childhood education? *Ans*Engelmann demonstrated that Piaget's conservation of liquid volume did not depend only on a child's stage The high/scope curriculum for preschoolers (weikart et al) identifies 58 key developmental experiences for active learning, dividing them into 10 main categories. Which of the following does NOT correctly represent one of the first five of these 10 categories? *Ans*Music, including being able to write musical notation and compositions To promote young children's developing abstract thinking, which teacher technique(s) to use during and after shared readings is/are best suited for use with children in the younger, rather than older, ages of early childhood? *Ans*Asking children to identify vocabulary words and describe story details Typically, young children eat most of the same foods as adults by the age of_____ *Ans*two years old What is the most typical age for children to understand common opposites like big/little, hot/cold, etc.? *Ans*Five years old What is true regarding children's motor development from infancy to preschool ages? *Ans*Motor skills development involves learning of new physical movements over the course of time What is true regarding survey findings about family differences among American socioeconomic and racial groups? *Ans*Data have shown more violence in African-American families, then in Latino, then White families What statement correctly represents how the whole language instructional approach addresses young children's mechanical errors in early literacy learning? *Ans*Children's overall engagement, comprehension, and appreciation precede correction. When a young child believes his/her thoughts caused something external to happen, which is the MOST SPECIFIC Piagetian term to describe this phenomenon? *Ans*Magical Thinking When characterizing young children, what did Vygotsky mean by the term "private speech" that he coined? *Ans*Speaking aloud to themselves during activities When children construct meaning, they may address new information that does not fit into their existing concepts or schemes by either forming a new scheme or changing an existing one. What is this process called? *Ans*Accommodation Which accurately reflects a contrast between the Directed Reading Activity (DRA) and the Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DR-TA) as methods of reading instruction using basal readers? *Ans*DRA requires convergent thinking whereas DR-TA also requires divergent thinking Which best expresses what the Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DR-TA) is intended to accomplish? *Ans*To develop critical reading through teaching group comprehension