Early Childhood Education
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Course Introduction
Early Childhood Education explores the development, learning, and care of children from birth through age eight, emphasizing the crucial role early experiences play in shaping lifelong cognitive, social, and emotional skills. The course covers foundational theories of child development, best practices in early childhood teaching, the design of developmentally appropriate learning environments, and strategies for supporting diverse learners. Students will also examine the impact of family, culture, and community on child development, as well as current policies and trends influencing early childhood education.
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Childhood Voyages in Development 5th Edition by Spencer A. Rathus
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Chapter 1: History, Theories, and Methods
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Q1) Nathan enjoys riding his bicycle outside.Each day that Nathan cleans up the toys in his room,he gets to ride his bike for an extra 15 minutes that day.The additional bike-riding time
A) is a negative reinforcer.
B) is a positive reinforcer.
C) is a punishment.
D) is an unconditioned response.
Answer: B
Q2) What aspect(s)of Freud's theory has/have endured over time?
A) His suggestion that behavior is determined and not arbitrary
B) The idea that childhood experiences can have far-reaching effects
C) The idea that our cognitive processes can be distorted to defend us against feelings of anxiety or guilt
D) All of these
Answer: D
Q3) Once agreeing to participate in a study,parents and children must remain in the study until it is over.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Heredity and Conception
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Q1) Chromosomes contain thousands of segments called A) nuclei.
B) genes.
C) phosphates.
D) cytosines.
Answer: B
Q2) Huntington's disease is a fatal,progressive degenerative disorder.People who have Huntington's disorder
A) have special diets.
B) are common,as the rate of this genetic disorder is very high.
C) usually have delayed onset of this disorder at age 35 or older.
D) use medications that cure the disorder.
Answer: C
Q3) "Carriers" for traits have two recessive genes for those traits.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development
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Q1) In research studies,mothers are not randomly assigned to use drugs such as cocaine.This methodological problem is called
A) sampling error.
B) attrition.
C) placebo effect.
D) selection factor.
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following is TRUE?
A) Smoking leads to lower birth weights in babies than drinking alcohol
B) Drinking alcohol leads to lower birth weights in babies than smoking
C) Smoking and drinking alcohol leads to lower birth weights than either practice alone
D) Ingesting large amounts of caffeine leads to the lowest birth weights in babies
Answer: C
Q3) Mothers do not usually feel the first fetal movements until the end of the sixth month of pregnancy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Birth and the Newborn Baby: In the New World
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Q1) What does the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS)measure?
A) Reflexes and other behavior patterns
B) Physiological measures such as heart rate
C) The color tone of the skin
D) Muscle tone
Q2) Neonates are born without which of the following visual capabilities?
A) Tracking
B) The ability to actively search the visual field
C) Visual accommodation
D) The ability to see,as this develops across the first months
Q3) Much of the research investigating the effects of oxygen deprivation on the developing fetus has focused on the area of the brain known as the
A) hippocampus.
B) amygdala.
C) brain stem.
D) parietal lobe.
Q4) Many women experience some level of the blues or depression after pregnancy.How many women experience these feelings? Is this a cultural phenomenon? Why might women experience such feelings?
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Chapter 5: Infancy: Physical Development
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Q1) Breast milk is higher in fat than whole milk.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Alexander reaches to pick up a Cheerio off the floor.In doing so,he uses his thumb to assist in picking up the piece of cereal.This is referred to as the A) ulnar grasp.
B) palmar reflex.
C) pincer grasp.
D) grasping reflex.
Q3) An infant's role in perceptual development
A) becomes more active across time.
B) becomes more passive across time as perceptual abilities increase.
C) there is no change in the infant's role in perceptual development across time.
D) The research is inconsistent on this issue
Q4) There are two major growth spurts of the brain.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Briefly describe what the parts of a neuron do.
Q6) What is the general food timeline for a child in the first two years?
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Chapter 6: Infancy: Cognitive Development
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Q1) What is a morpheme?
A) A single word meant to represent an entire phrase
B) A single word meant to represent multiple objects
C) The total length of an infant's utterance
D) The smallest unit of meaning in a language
Q2) To date,it appears that the best predictor of later IQ scores is
A) the Bayley test.
B) parent IQ scores.
C) tests of visual recognition memory.
D) the Apgar test.
Q3) Infants begin cooing
A) at birth.
B) at one week of age.
C) during the second month of life.
D) during the fourth month of life.
Q4) According to psycholinguistic theory,language acquisition
A) is dependent upon resolving conflicts between the id,ego,and superego.
B) is primarily dependent upon stimulation from the environment.
C) is related to both inborn tendencies and environmental influences.
D) depends upon the length of one's sensitive period.
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Chapter 7: Infancy: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Describe how autistic children can be distinguished from non-autistic children.
Q2) Konrad Lorenz's goslings (1962; 1981)ran to him when frightened,honked with distress at his departure,and tried to overcome obstacles to be near him.This is an example of A) secure attachment.
B) bonding.
C) imprinting.
D) object permanence.
Q3) What appears to influence the effects of social deprivation?
A) The lack of love and affection
B) The deficiency in social stimulation
C) The deficiency in sensory stimulation
D) The age of the infant
Q4) Biological factors suspected of contributing to ASDs include
A) abnormal brain wave patterns or seizures.
B) increased activity in the frontal and temporal lobes.
C) contact with lead or other heavy metals in utero.
D) vaccines,particularly those that include a mercury preservative.
Q5) Explain the concept "goodness of fit."
Q6) Explain how social referencing functions in infancy.
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Chapter 8: Early Childhood: Physical Development
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Q1) Ultrasound shows that
A) fetuses have no preference for handedness.
B) a majority of fetuses suck their left thumbs.
C) about 95% of fetuses suck their right thumbs.
D) fetuses suck both right and left thumbs equally.
Q2) Failure to control the bladder once the "normal" age for bladder control has been achieved is called
A) encopresis.
B) urinesis.
C) enuresis.
D) ontothesis.
Q3) Sedentary parents are more likely to have children who are A) overactive.
B) cognitively delayed.
C) sedentary.
D) Parent activity level is not related to child activity level
Q4) Encopresis happens more during the day than at night.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain why nightmares are more common in young children than in older children.
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Chapter 9: Early Childhood: Cognitive Development
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Q1) The concept of scaffolding can be attributed to which theorist?
A) Piaget
B) Freud
C) Vygotsky
D) Lorenz
Q2) Which of the following is associated with higher IQ scores by age 3?
A) Emotionally responsive parenting
B) Verbally responsive parenting
C) A variety of daily experiences for young children
D) All of these
Q3) Can preschool intervention programs have long-term positive outcomes?
A) No,the IQ gains always fade
B) No,in fact they result in even poorer performance in high school and college
C) Yes,the IQ gains are proven to last,but only for girls
D) Yes,the children are more likely to go on to college and earn higher incomes
Q4) Three-year-olds believe it is possible to discover a ball's color just by feeling it.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the cognitive abilities and limitations of preoperational children.
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Chapter 10: Early Childhood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) _______ African-American mothers report that father figures are involved with their preschoolers.
A) One out of 10
B) One-third to one-half
C) Eight out of 10
D) There is no research in this area
Q2) How can parents diminish the potential negative effects of the birth of a new sibling on existing children in a family?
A) Explain what is to come and give the existing child/children lots of support
B) There is little that can be done
C) Punish negative behaviors right away,so that they will not get worse
D) Explain to the older child that this is just a fact of life and give him/her time to get used to it
Q3) What is the difference between associative play and cooperative play?
A) Associative play involves more rules
B) Cooperative play does not involve group goals
C) Associative play is more common in older children
D) Cooperative play involves the purposes of the group
Q4) Discuss what is known about the development of gender typing.
Q5) Discuss the techniques that parents use to restrict their children's behavior.
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Chapter 11: Middle Childhood: Physical Development
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Q1) How does television viewing contribute to obesity?
A) Children who are heavy TV viewers are less physically active overall
B) It does not contribute to obesity,as obesity is genetically determined
C) It doesn't; watching TV actually curbs the appetite
D) It resets the hunger trigger located in the thalamus
Q2) Which of the following predicts child participation in sports?
A) The child's physical size
B) Whether the child lives in a rural or urban environment
C) The child's socioeconomic status
D) The child's self-perception of competence in sports
Q3) Aside from television viewing being a sedentary activity,how else does watching TV contribute to obesity?
A) Children tend to watch shows that encourage sedentary activities
B) By showing children commercials for unhealthy foods
C) Watching TV is associated with eating healthy snacks
D) Watching TV takes time away from being with peers
Q4) It is not possible to outgrow asthma.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the patterns of obesity during middle childhood?
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Chapter 12: Middle Childhood: Cognitive Development
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Q1) Which of the following statements is TRUE of concrete operational children?
A) They can only focus on one aspect of a problem at a time
B) They have gained the ability to think with abstract logic
C) They can work with multiple cognitive dimensions at the same time
D) They are more egocentric than preoperational children
Q2) Traditional IQ tests
A) are very useful in measuring creativity.
B) measure the creativity of girls better than that of boys.
C) are highly predictive of future success.
D) do not determine how flexible one's thinking is.
Q3) Which memory process lasts for up to 30 seconds without rehearsal?
A) Sensory
B) Trace
C) Short-term
D) Long-term
Q4) If intelligence is defined as capacity,then achievement would be defined as
A) learning ability.
B) genetic ability.
C) attainment.
D) environmentally determined.
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Chapter 13: Middle Childhood: Social and Emotional Development
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Q1) Children rejected by their peers
A) may have been rejected because of behavioral and learning problems.
B) usually show little or no change in order to become accepted.
C) may have been rejected because of aggressive behavior.
D) All of these
Q2) Children of divorced parents are more likely to A) engage in substance abuse.
B) have good physical health immediately following the divorce.
C) have high self-esteem.
D) have high grades in school.
Q3) What are the theoretical views on social and emotional development in middle childhood?
Q4) Reese describes herself by saying,"I am a girl.I love soccer.I have a younger brother.I ride the bus to school.I like strawberries." This self-description is typical of A) a child in middle childhood.
B) an only child.
C) a child in early childhood.
D) an adolescent.
Q5) How do teacher expectations affect student success?
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