Child Development Chapter 12 questions and
answers with solutions 2025/2026
How has neuroscience benefited parents and other caregivers - ANSWER
Can help ensure a child reaches his or her potential by offering a
stimulating enviroment
What is intelligence - ANSWER The ability to interpret and understand
everyday situations and to use prior experiences when faces with new
problems or situations (the capacity to learn)
What roles do heredity and environment play in intelligence? - ANSWER
Everyone is born with certain limits of possible intellectual dev. A
person's potential is developed by their environment
What are the features of a stimulating environment that promotes
intellectual development - ANSWER Interactions with caregivers and
kids, variety of appropriate toys, encouragment
Give an example of Incidental learning - ANSWER unplanned learning,
pushing something and it falling
Give an example trial and error learning - ANSWER trying several
solutions to figure out which one will work
, Four methods of learning - ANSWER Incidental learning, Trial and error,
Imitation, Directed learning
Give an example of Imitation - ANSWER Copying what other people do
Give an example of directed learning - ANSWER Purposeful (school)
What are concepts? Give three examples of concepts that young children
learn. - ANSWER General categories of objects and information.
Concepts of time, learning what is/isn't alive, categorizing shapes
Why do toddlers have difficulty concentrating on one thing at a time -
ANSWER The 5 senses are being bombarded with new information
Why is the ability to remember such an important key to learning? -
ANSWER If experiences are forgotten then they can't be used for later
How can parents help improve their child's perception? - ANSWER
Talking about what you and your child are doing, answering questions.
Compare the problem-solving strategy of a fourteen-month-old to that
of a three-year-old - ANSWER 3 years has mental abilities a 14m doesn't
have. (like long term memory)
answers with solutions 2025/2026
How has neuroscience benefited parents and other caregivers - ANSWER
Can help ensure a child reaches his or her potential by offering a
stimulating enviroment
What is intelligence - ANSWER The ability to interpret and understand
everyday situations and to use prior experiences when faces with new
problems or situations (the capacity to learn)
What roles do heredity and environment play in intelligence? - ANSWER
Everyone is born with certain limits of possible intellectual dev. A
person's potential is developed by their environment
What are the features of a stimulating environment that promotes
intellectual development - ANSWER Interactions with caregivers and
kids, variety of appropriate toys, encouragment
Give an example of Incidental learning - ANSWER unplanned learning,
pushing something and it falling
Give an example trial and error learning - ANSWER trying several
solutions to figure out which one will work
, Four methods of learning - ANSWER Incidental learning, Trial and error,
Imitation, Directed learning
Give an example of Imitation - ANSWER Copying what other people do
Give an example of directed learning - ANSWER Purposeful (school)
What are concepts? Give three examples of concepts that young children
learn. - ANSWER General categories of objects and information.
Concepts of time, learning what is/isn't alive, categorizing shapes
Why do toddlers have difficulty concentrating on one thing at a time -
ANSWER The 5 senses are being bombarded with new information
Why is the ability to remember such an important key to learning? -
ANSWER If experiences are forgotten then they can't be used for later
How can parents help improve their child's perception? - ANSWER
Talking about what you and your child are doing, answering questions.
Compare the problem-solving strategy of a fourteen-month-old to that
of a three-year-old - ANSWER 3 years has mental abilities a 14m doesn't
have. (like long term memory)
