Early Childhood Education Exam Questions
Course Introduction
Early Childhood Education explores the developmental stages, learning processes, and educational needs of children from birth to age eight. This course examines key theories of child development, the role of play in learning, and the importance of family and cultural contexts in shaping early experiences. Students will study best practices for creating supportive, inclusive, and engaging learning environments and develop skills in observation, assessment, and curriculum planning tailored to young childrens unique needs and abilities. Emphasis is placed on fostering foundational skills, promoting social-emotional growth, and advocating for high-quality early childhood education.
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The Process of Parenting 9th Edition by Jane B. Brooks
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Chapter 1: Parenting Is a Process
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Q1) Although a statistically rare event,the majority of parents worry very much that ____________________________________________.
Answer: a crime like kidnapping will be committed against their child
Q2) When mothers going through divorce become more accepting with children
A) children feel less anxious and less worried in middle school.
B) children's behavior changes quickly in response to mothers' changes.
C) children's behavior changes did not persist into adolescence.
D) A and C
Answer: A
Q3) Urie Bronfenbrenner and Pamela Morris believe a child need not be biologically related to parents or live in a two-parent family,but requires a caregiver who A) is healthy and employed.
B) has a long-term love for and commitment to the child. C) receives emotional support from another adult.
D) B and C
Answer: D
Q4) It is the __________ of risk factors,rather than any particular one,that leads to poor outcomes for children.
Answer: accumulation/number
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Chapter 2: Cultural Influences on Parenting
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Q1) Parent educators are most likely to be helpful to parents with different values when
A) they give parents a formal, structured program to follow.
B) they ask questions about parents' goals and expectations in child-rearing.
C) they teach them new values.
D) A and C
Answer: B
Q2) Parents with the independent model of parent-child relationships are likely to give frequent __________ to children
Answer: praise or questions
Q3) A study of five thousand immigrant youth revealed that the largest group of youth sought to assimilate with the new culture.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The three main indicators determining parents' social status are _______________.
Answer: income,educational level,and occupational level
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Chapter 3: Learning to Parent
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Q1) Changes over time in the nature of the parent-child attachment depend on
A) the amount of time parent and child spend together.
B) changes in the emotional quality of the parent-child relationship.
C) the child's personality.
D) a and c
Answer: B
Q2) The overabundance of synapses in the brain leads to __________ of the least used connections.
Answer: pruning/eliminating
Q3) When parents were asked about the major influences on their parenting,they reported they were: the way they were raised,extended family members,pediatricians,and ___________________________.
Answer: their religious faith
Q4) Sleep patterns play a role in the development of children's Executive Function skills.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q5) At birth the hormone _________ encourages mother-infant bonding.
Answer: oxytocin
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Chapter 4: Becoming Parents
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Q1) Single fathers who want to rear the child the mother wishes to give up for adoption
A) often have only a narrow window of time to make their intentions known.
B) register at state registries that are hard to locate and are little publicized.
C) may have no rights outside the county or state where the baby was born.
D) all of these.
Q2) There are several levels of assisted conception,and initial assistance usually takes the form of ________________________________________.
Q3) Married women who planned their pregnancy,in contrast to married women who did not plan their pregnancy,report
A) more positive moods during pregnancy.
B) fewer fears at birth.
C) fewer dissatisfactions with their husbands.
D) A and C
Q4) The most common change having a baby brings to both mothers and fathers is
Q5) Describe three findings from James McHale's study of forming co-parenting alliances during pregnancy.
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Chapter 5: Nurturing Close Family Relationships in a Technological Society
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Q1) Give three risk factors for children of depressed or substance abusing parents and give three forms of treatment that have been helpful for parents and children.
Q2) Parents find each others' company stress-reducing,but they have relatively little time together.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Resilient farm families under economic stress use two major ways to cope effectively: _______________________ and
Q4) In the Cowan and Cowan study,adult children of alcoholics had problems in the areas of
A) marital adjustment.
B) job satisfaction.
C) alcohol consumption.
D) all of the above
Q5) Since parents now spend more time with children than they did in 1965,they worry less about spending enough time with children.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 6: Supporting Childrens Growth and Development
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Q1) Having Chicago high school students walk on treadmills for twenty minutes before their difficult classes increased students' academic performance.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Parents' rules for media use of children eight to eighteen
A) are few but strictly enforced.
B) are few and not often enforced.
C) are many because of parents' concerns about media.
D) A and C
Q3) For children,even those under six,screen activities are the most frequent daily activity.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Adults who multitask are faster on a discriminating task like selecting even and odd numbers.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Giving no physical or psychological response to a behavior is __________.
Q6) Using the outcome of the act to teach the child is using __________.
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Chapter 7: Parenting Children From Birth to Two Years
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Q1) James McHale's research,parents' prebirth negative predictions about lack of support and cooperation with the other parent came true only when babies were
Q2) Babies cry less in the first three months when
A)A.they are left alone in an infant seat.
B)B.mothers carry them about three hours a day.
C)C.parents ignore the crying.
D)D.parents talk to them from a distance.
Q3) In the first two years,according to Jean Piaget,the baby's __________ are his or her sources of knowledge.
Q4) Babies pattern their own moods on mothers' emotions.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Negative interactions with parents in infancy
A) are brief and last only a few seconds.
B) increase likelihood of toddler noncompliance.
C) have few effects in the toddler or later years.
D) A and C
Q6) Dr.Harvey Karp believes newborns would benefit from an additional __________.
Q7) Marc Bornstein describes social caregiving as __________.
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Chapter 8: Parenting Children in Early Childhood
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Q1) A father says he is worried because his three-year-old daughter is very upset about the birth of her baby sister,and he wants them to be close as they grow up.You tell him
A) they'll only feel close when they are adults and don't live together.
B) when they go off to school and have time away from each other, they will finally be able to feel close to each other.
C) even though they have some negative feelings at the time of the birth, by the end of the first year, most children have positive feelings and would like another sibling.
D) there is nothing he can do about the rivalry.
Q2) A father notices his preschool son behaves differently than his daughter did at the same age and wonders about sex differences in the behavior of preschool children.You tell him that in comparison to girls,preschool boys
A) are more cooperative.
B) are more active.
C) are more verbal.
D) show no significant differences in behavior.
Q3) Preschoolers consider parents rules about appropriate clothing matters of
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Chapter 9: Parenting Early Elementary School Children
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Q1) Children describe themselves as being as loving and happy as their parents are.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Well-liked children are
A) gregarious, happy, and immature.
B) outgoing, happy, and aggressive.
C) quiet, unassuming, and accommodating.
D) friendly, cooperative, and supportive of others.
Q3) Parents' beliefs in their children's abilities
A) encourage children's feelings of competence through the entire school period.
B) contribute to children's feelings of pressure to achieve.
C) encourage boys and girls to participate in activities associated with the opposite gender.
D) A and C
Q4) A successful program for dealing with bullying includes all of the following EXCEPT
A) commitment of parents, students, and school personnel.
B) monitoring that occurs in and out of school.
C) emphasizing positive behaviors in all children.
D) ignores negative behaviors.
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Chapter 10: Parenting Early Adolescents
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Q1) The moods of early adolescents are as positive as those of younger children.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Witnessing bullying of others
A) has little impact on the observer.
B) makes the observer feel angry and humiliated.
C) leads observes to take action and stop it.
D) makes the observer feel secretly grateful that he or she is not the one being bullied.
Q3) In countries around the world,parental knowledge and monitoring of early teens were related to low levels of
A) substance abuse.
B) teen independence.
C) parents' overprotection.
D) compliance.
Q4) Early maturing girls are more likely than later maturing girls
A) to have conflicts with parents.
B) to spend time alone.
C) to be prone to depression.
D) A and C
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Chapter 11: Parenting Late Adolescents and Young Adults
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Q1) For African American and Latino teens,a positive identification with the broader American culture is essential for personal adjustment.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe and illustrate three characteristics of any three of the six pathways to adulthood in a sample of Midwestern teens.
Q3) People with eating disorders channel all their negative feelings into the eating disorder and have few other psychological problems.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Puerto Rican immigrant youth making the transition to adulthood
A) stressed the value of children and keeping them close.
B) came from families in which parents had less education than parents in other groups.
C) saw education as a main path to success.
D) all of these
Q5) In families termed Fast Starters and Parents without Careers,both partners reported lower levels of illegal activities and higher rates of __________.
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Chapter 12: Working and Parenting
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Q1) Employment provides parents such psychological benefits as
A) feelings of competence and self-esteem.
B) friendships.
C) increased interpersonal skills.
D) all of these
Q2) Early adolescents who care for themselves after school are old enough to monitor themselves so they do not get into trouble.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In a study of alternating-shift families,mothers' income was
A) minimal and not really needed.
B) important and appreciated.
C) important but resented.
D) seasonal and undependable.
Q4) Describe the three areas that low-income single mothers concentrate their activities and the strategies they use to manage the demands on them.
Q5) When mothers of preschool children have stressful workdays,they are __________ with their children.
Q6) Two structural measures of day care are __________ and _______________.
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Chapter 13: Parents by Adoption and Parents by
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Q1) The role of donor assistance or surrogacy is often explained to young children as that of __________.
Q2) When parents adopt a child from another country,they follow this country's rules for adoption because this is where the child will live.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe three reasons parents give for telling children about ART and three reasons parents give for not telling children about the use of ART.
Q4) Adults previously excluded from adoption-older,single,gay/lesbian,poorer,disabled-have been approved as adoptive parents and found to
A) experience less satisfaction as parents than anticipated.
B) have greater difficulties than those adopted by young couples.
C) have good placement outcomes.
D) A and C
Q5) Adoptive teens suffer more difficulties in families in which parents' communication styles are termed __________.
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Chapter 14: Parenting When Unmarried
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Q1) When they were matched with mothers in two-parent families on education,income,area of residence and age of child,single mothers reported more stresses and fewer __________ than married mothers.
Q2) Describe and illustrate five positive personal supports that help single parents function effectively.
Q3) Age,ethnicity,and education did not distinguish single mothers who could or could not form trusting relationships with men,but _________________ did.
Q4) Even when girls are headed in the direction of adolescent parenthood,their parents' _______________________ helped girls stay in school and avoid pregnancy.
A) monitoring
B) affection
C) negative consequences
D) restrictiveness
Q5) Parenting groups for low-income unmarried parents increase parenting skills but have not improved parents' abilities to work together.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Parenting in Divorced Families and Remarried Families
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Q1) When teens report close relationships with fathers and stepfathers or even stepfathers alone,teens had
A)better grades.
B)more distant relationships with mothers.
C)had fewer friends.
D)A and C.
Q2) One of the suggestions from stepchildren to parents is
A) wait until children and stepparents live together and spend a lot of time together before trying to form relationships.
B) let children and stepparents get to know each other as individuals with particular interests.
C) do not make any effort to form relationships, let them grow naturally without any pressure.
D) A and C
Q3) Men and women both give the following reason(s)for divorce.
A) emotional problems
B) interpersonal stresses
C) communication problems
D) A and C
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Chapter 16: Parenting in Lesbian and Gay Families
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Q1) Children of lesbian mothers report about the same level of teasing and exclusion as children in The Netherlands where same-sex marriage is legal.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In lesbian couples co-mother is a term that refers to __________.
Q3) A detailed study of adolescents living in a lesbian couple family found that A) on all measures of competence, these teens functioned as well as teens from families headed by heterosexual couples
B) gender identity of parents did not predict teens' behavior.
C) quality of parent-teen relationships predicted adolescent competence.
D) all of these.
Q4) An example of a gay or lesbian parent's indirect way of telling a child about his/her sexual orientation is ___________________.
Q5) In recent years many lesbian and gay singles and couples have chosen to have children through __________.
Q6) Like heterosexual couples,lesbian and gay parents reported a __________ in feelings of closeness following the birth of a baby.
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Chapter 17: Parenting in Challenging Times
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Q1) The most frequent form of maltreatment is __________
Q2) When mothers who were the victims of domestic violence received training in parenting skills,their children,two years later, A) remained unhappy and noncompliant B) had fewer problems with aggression and better relationships with peers C) had increases in anger and noncompliance D) were withdrawn from mothers and peers
Q3) Steve Wolin and Sylvia Wolin substitute the __________ model of development for the __________ model of development relied upon in the past.
Q4) The social network of maltreating parents is larger than that of nonmaltreating parents.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Children living in neighborhoods with high rates of crime and violence are at greater risk for child maltreatment.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Exposure to family violence begins in __________.
Q7) Describe four features of Trauma-Focused - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
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