Child Life Certification Actual Exam questions Solved
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Father of the attachment theory- attachment behaviors formed in infancy and can shape
attachment relationships in adulthood - ✔✔John Bowlby
theorist that conducted a lab procedure to assess infant attachment style. Alternated between
the infant's mother being present in the room and a stranger being in the room.
Believed attachment security depends on how sensitive and responsive a caregiver is to an
infant's signals - ✔✔Mary Ainsworth
Ainsworth's 3 types of attachment - ✔✔secure, avoidant, resistant/ambivalent
Bowlby's 3 phases of separation: - ✔✔protest, despair, detachment
According to John Bowlby, the PRINCIPLE factor in reducing a child's susceptibility to fear and
anxiety is: - ✔✔The presence of an attachment figure
Theorist that believes there are six types of social participation/play:
1. unoccupied
2. onlooker
3. solitary/independent play
4. parallel play
5. associative
6. cooperative - ✔✔Parten
,Theorists that discovered that children spent significantly less time playing with toys during
hospitalization than they did prior to or following the release from the hospital - ✔✔Burstein
and Meichenbaum
Theorists that discovered that the longer children were hospitalized, the more they engaged in
educative and rough-and-tough play and the less they engaged in exploratory behavior -
✔✔Pass and Bolig
This theorist believed in 4 types of play:
1. functional play
2. dramatic play/symbolic play
3. constructive play
4. games with rules - ✔✔Smilansky
This theorist believed that play revolved 5 themes:
1. play as progress
2. play as adaption
3. play as power
4. play as fantasy
5. play itself - ✔✔Sutton-Smith
This theorist lists the elements which characterize play:
1. play is pleasurable
2. play has no extrinsic goals
3. play is spontaneous
4. play involves engagement
5. there is systematic relations to what is not play - ✔✔Garvey
, Observed children's play and developed an activity-based program where children play and
manipulate materials in ways that have meaning in their lives. ((type of school)) - ✔✔Maria
Montessori
Children learn by having someone model a skill and then trying the skill out with assistance and
then trying it on their own - ✔✔Scaffolding
The distance between what a child can do without help and what a child can do through
interaction with a skilled helper - ✔✔Zone of proximal development
These 3 theorists believed that play must be:
1. motivated from within
2. focused on means rather than structured ends
3. internally controlled
4. comprised of non-instrumental actions
5. free-form imposed regulation or rules - ✔✔Reuben, Fein, and Vandenberg
2 theorists that developed paradigms of play: Development, learning, therapy, flow, comfort,
hope - ✔✔Jesse and Garnard
This theorist found that the reluctance of play could be reduced by the presence of an
encouraging and supportive adult - ✔✔Bolig
This theorist found that preparation play improved adjustment, coping, and recovery -
✔✔Wolfner
Adapatation - ✔✔Modifying one's environment to fit one's personal needs
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Father of the attachment theory- attachment behaviors formed in infancy and can shape
attachment relationships in adulthood - ✔✔John Bowlby
theorist that conducted a lab procedure to assess infant attachment style. Alternated between
the infant's mother being present in the room and a stranger being in the room.
Believed attachment security depends on how sensitive and responsive a caregiver is to an
infant's signals - ✔✔Mary Ainsworth
Ainsworth's 3 types of attachment - ✔✔secure, avoidant, resistant/ambivalent
Bowlby's 3 phases of separation: - ✔✔protest, despair, detachment
According to John Bowlby, the PRINCIPLE factor in reducing a child's susceptibility to fear and
anxiety is: - ✔✔The presence of an attachment figure
Theorist that believes there are six types of social participation/play:
1. unoccupied
2. onlooker
3. solitary/independent play
4. parallel play
5. associative
6. cooperative - ✔✔Parten
,Theorists that discovered that children spent significantly less time playing with toys during
hospitalization than they did prior to or following the release from the hospital - ✔✔Burstein
and Meichenbaum
Theorists that discovered that the longer children were hospitalized, the more they engaged in
educative and rough-and-tough play and the less they engaged in exploratory behavior -
✔✔Pass and Bolig
This theorist believed in 4 types of play:
1. functional play
2. dramatic play/symbolic play
3. constructive play
4. games with rules - ✔✔Smilansky
This theorist believed that play revolved 5 themes:
1. play as progress
2. play as adaption
3. play as power
4. play as fantasy
5. play itself - ✔✔Sutton-Smith
This theorist lists the elements which characterize play:
1. play is pleasurable
2. play has no extrinsic goals
3. play is spontaneous
4. play involves engagement
5. there is systematic relations to what is not play - ✔✔Garvey
, Observed children's play and developed an activity-based program where children play and
manipulate materials in ways that have meaning in their lives. ((type of school)) - ✔✔Maria
Montessori
Children learn by having someone model a skill and then trying the skill out with assistance and
then trying it on their own - ✔✔Scaffolding
The distance between what a child can do without help and what a child can do through
interaction with a skilled helper - ✔✔Zone of proximal development
These 3 theorists believed that play must be:
1. motivated from within
2. focused on means rather than structured ends
3. internally controlled
4. comprised of non-instrumental actions
5. free-form imposed regulation or rules - ✔✔Reuben, Fein, and Vandenberg
2 theorists that developed paradigms of play: Development, learning, therapy, flow, comfort,
hope - ✔✔Jesse and Garnard
This theorist found that the reluctance of play could be reduced by the presence of an
encouraging and supportive adult - ✔✔Bolig
This theorist found that preparation play improved adjustment, coping, and recovery -
✔✔Wolfner
Adapatation - ✔✔Modifying one's environment to fit one's personal needs
