OSAT: Early Childhood 2024/2025 Exam
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Sensorimotor Period: Birth to One Month - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Infants learn to
comprehend their environment through their inborn reflexes
Preoperational Stage of Cognitive Development - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔o
Roughly bet`ween the ages of 2-6 years old
o Begin to use objects to represent things, i.e, symbolic representation
o Play pretend/Make believe.
o Their thinking is intuitive rather than following logical steps
o "Egocentric" in that they cannot adopt another's point of view
Sensorimotor Period: 1-4 months - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Babies begin to
coordinate their physical sensations with new schemas
Sensorimotor Period: 4-8 Months - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Children also repeat
rewarding actions, but now they are focused on things in the environment
that they can affect, rather than just the child's own person.
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,Sensorimotor Period: 8-12 months - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Infants begin further
exploring their surroundings.
Sensorimotor Period: 12-18 months - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Children begin
experimenting through trial-and-error.
Sensorimotor Period: 18-24 months - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Children begin
representing objects and events with symbols. Begin to understand the
world via not only actions, but mental operations.
Schema - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Mental constructs or concepts that represent
elements of the environment. A category or class of things.
Assimilation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔When we fit something into an existing
schema
Accommodation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔When something new cannot be
assimilated into an existing schema, we either modify that schema or form
a new schema
conservation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔o The cognitive ability to understand that
objects or substances retain their properties of numbers or amounts even
when their appearance, shape, or configuration changes
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,Sociocultural Theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Believed that all children's mental,
language and social development is supported by and enhanced through
social interactions
Zone of Proximal Development - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The difference between
what the child can accomplish independently and what he or she can
achieve in conjunction with another more competent person
Scaffolding - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Assistance in the ZPD. At the beginning of a
new task, scaffolding should be concrete and visible, but should be slowly
removed after that. Builds on children's strengths, enabling the children to
grow cognitively and become independent learners.
Self-actualization - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Maximizing one's potential
Erikson's stages of psychosocial development - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Trust vs.
Mistrust (birth- 18 months)
Autonomy vs. Shame/Doubt (18 months- 3 years)
Initiative vs. Guild (3-5 years)
Industry vs. Inferiority (5- 8 years)
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, Trust vs. Mistrust - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔(Birth-18 months) Trust develops when
children's needs are met consistently, predictably, and lovingly. Caring for
basic needs.
autonomy vs. Shame/doubt - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔(18 months-3 years) Learn
independence and competence. Toddlers learn to be self-sufficient or to
doubt their abilities in activities.
initiative vs guild - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔• (3 years-5 years)-Children need
opportunities to respond with initiative to activities and tasks, which give
them a sense of purposefulness and accomplishment. Children are
learning and want to undertake many adultlike activities. Exercise control
over environments.
Industry vs. Inferiority - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔(5-8 years)- Children display an
industrious attitude and want to be productive. Build things, discover,
manipulate objects, and find out how things work.
Garner's Eight Intelligences - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Visual/Spatial
Verbal/Linguistic
Mathmatical/Logical
Bodily/Kinesthetic
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Sensorimotor Period: Birth to One Month - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Infants learn to
comprehend their environment through their inborn reflexes
Preoperational Stage of Cognitive Development - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔o
Roughly bet`ween the ages of 2-6 years old
o Begin to use objects to represent things, i.e, symbolic representation
o Play pretend/Make believe.
o Their thinking is intuitive rather than following logical steps
o "Egocentric" in that they cannot adopt another's point of view
Sensorimotor Period: 1-4 months - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Babies begin to
coordinate their physical sensations with new schemas
Sensorimotor Period: 4-8 Months - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Children also repeat
rewarding actions, but now they are focused on things in the environment
that they can affect, rather than just the child's own person.
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,Sensorimotor Period: 8-12 months - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Infants begin further
exploring their surroundings.
Sensorimotor Period: 12-18 months - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Children begin
experimenting through trial-and-error.
Sensorimotor Period: 18-24 months - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Children begin
representing objects and events with symbols. Begin to understand the
world via not only actions, but mental operations.
Schema - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Mental constructs or concepts that represent
elements of the environment. A category or class of things.
Assimilation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔When we fit something into an existing
schema
Accommodation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔When something new cannot be
assimilated into an existing schema, we either modify that schema or form
a new schema
conservation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔o The cognitive ability to understand that
objects or substances retain their properties of numbers or amounts even
when their appearance, shape, or configuration changes
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,Sociocultural Theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Believed that all children's mental,
language and social development is supported by and enhanced through
social interactions
Zone of Proximal Development - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The difference between
what the child can accomplish independently and what he or she can
achieve in conjunction with another more competent person
Scaffolding - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Assistance in the ZPD. At the beginning of a
new task, scaffolding should be concrete and visible, but should be slowly
removed after that. Builds on children's strengths, enabling the children to
grow cognitively and become independent learners.
Self-actualization - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Maximizing one's potential
Erikson's stages of psychosocial development - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Trust vs.
Mistrust (birth- 18 months)
Autonomy vs. Shame/Doubt (18 months- 3 years)
Initiative vs. Guild (3-5 years)
Industry vs. Inferiority (5- 8 years)
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, Trust vs. Mistrust - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔(Birth-18 months) Trust develops when
children's needs are met consistently, predictably, and lovingly. Caring for
basic needs.
autonomy vs. Shame/doubt - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔(18 months-3 years) Learn
independence and competence. Toddlers learn to be self-sufficient or to
doubt their abilities in activities.
initiative vs guild - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔• (3 years-5 years)-Children need
opportunities to respond with initiative to activities and tasks, which give
them a sense of purposefulness and accomplishment. Children are
learning and want to undertake many adultlike activities. Exercise control
over environments.
Industry vs. Inferiority - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔(5-8 years)- Children display an
industrious attitude and want to be productive. Build things, discover,
manipulate objects, and find out how things work.
Garner's Eight Intelligences - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Visual/Spatial
Verbal/Linguistic
Mathmatical/Logical
Bodily/Kinesthetic
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