OSAT - Early Childhood Education Exam
Questions with 100% Correct Answers
Authoritative - ANSWER ✔✔High responsiveness, high demandingness
Gives a lot of positive feedback and explanation and has high expectations
Authoritation - ANSWER ✔✔Low responsiveness, high demandingness
Gives little positive feedback or explanation and/or a lot of negative feedback
or explanation and has high expectations
Indulgent (permissive-by-choice) - ANSWER ✔✔High responsiveness, Low
demandingness
Gives a lot of feedback, combination of positive and negative; doesn't always
hold the child to what they say such as with discipline
gives the child what they need except limits
Unengaged (permissive-by-default) - ANSWER ✔✔Low responsiveness, Low
demandingness
Gives little to no feedback or explanation and does not have high expectations
of child
How to be authoritative? - ANSWER ✔✔model self-control
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, clearly communicate developmentally appropriate expectations
give specific information to children on how something should be done
recognize and encourage children when they do what you want them to do
What is responsiveness? - ANSWER ✔✔How warm a person is and how he/she
communicates and gives explanations of child
What is demanding? - ANSWER ✔✔How effectively and positively a person
makes expectations clear to children and how the child is monitored while
doing it
John Dewey - ANSWER ✔✔children have four primary interests
1. desire to invesitage and discover things
2. need to communicate
3. joy in construction
4. artistic expression
What is assimilation? - ANSWER ✔✔taking in new information and connecting it
with prior knowledge
What is accommodation? - ANSWER ✔✔Taking in new information and
changing prior knowledge to better fit new information
Jean Piaget - ANSWER ✔✔Assimilation and Accommodation
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Questions with 100% Correct Answers
Authoritative - ANSWER ✔✔High responsiveness, high demandingness
Gives a lot of positive feedback and explanation and has high expectations
Authoritation - ANSWER ✔✔Low responsiveness, high demandingness
Gives little positive feedback or explanation and/or a lot of negative feedback
or explanation and has high expectations
Indulgent (permissive-by-choice) - ANSWER ✔✔High responsiveness, Low
demandingness
Gives a lot of feedback, combination of positive and negative; doesn't always
hold the child to what they say such as with discipline
gives the child what they need except limits
Unengaged (permissive-by-default) - ANSWER ✔✔Low responsiveness, Low
demandingness
Gives little to no feedback or explanation and does not have high expectations
of child
How to be authoritative? - ANSWER ✔✔model self-control
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619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, clearly communicate developmentally appropriate expectations
give specific information to children on how something should be done
recognize and encourage children when they do what you want them to do
What is responsiveness? - ANSWER ✔✔How warm a person is and how he/she
communicates and gives explanations of child
What is demanding? - ANSWER ✔✔How effectively and positively a person
makes expectations clear to children and how the child is monitored while
doing it
John Dewey - ANSWER ✔✔children have four primary interests
1. desire to invesitage and discover things
2. need to communicate
3. joy in construction
4. artistic expression
What is assimilation? - ANSWER ✔✔taking in new information and connecting it
with prior knowledge
What is accommodation? - ANSWER ✔✔Taking in new information and
changing prior knowledge to better fit new information
Jean Piaget - ANSWER ✔✔Assimilation and Accommodation
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