Early Childhood Education
Midterm Exam
Course Introduction
Early Childhood Education explores the foundational principles, theories, and practices involved in educating children from birth to age eight. This course examines the developmental milestones of young children, the role of play in learning, the impact of family and cultural contexts, and the importance of creating inclusive and supportive learning environments. Students will learn strategies for fostering cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development, as well as methods for observing and assessing young childrens progress. Emphasis is placed on the educators role in nurturing curiosity, creativity, and a lifelong love of learning through age-appropriate curriculum and interactions.
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Developmental Psychology Childhood and Adolescence 9th Edition by David R. Shaffer
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Developmental Psychology and Its Research Strategies
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Q1) Discuss the roles of maturation and learning in human development.
Answer: Maturation is determined by genes, in the sense that all normal humans have a "species heredity" that designs and sets limits on how they will develop. Characteristics of the individual also depend upon genetic information specifically inherited from parents and ancestors. Learning also determines development but is more clearly psychological in the sense of permanent changes in feelings, thoughts, and patterns of behavior that result in a highly complex fashion from an individual's experiences. Many developmental changes are the result of the interaction between maturation and learning.
Q2) Which of these is NOT among the several shortcomings of interviews or questionnaires?
A)Subjects may lie about their own actions.
B)Young preschoolers might misunderstand the questions.
C)Results may be inconsistent for children and parents.
D)Self-report techniques generate a lot of data.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Hereditary Influences on Development
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Q1) Extreme theoretical positions on the heredity vs. environment (nature/nurture) controversy
A)were more popular in the past than today.
B)are more popular today than in the past.
C)today are considered to have been unnecessarily complex.
D)overemphasized the interaction of factors.
Answer: A
Q2) Monozygotic twins are the result of
A)two ova, each fertilized by different sperm.
B)the "crossing over" phenomenon.
C)a single fertilized ovum splitting into two zygotes.
D)the process of mitosis.
Answer: C
Q3) The earliest stages of cellular mitosis typically occur
A)in the ovaries.
B)in the fallopian tubes.
C)in the uterus.
D)at the moment of birth.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development and Birth
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Q1) When we recall that prenatal development affects a child's future physical, emotional, and cognitive development, this is an example of
A)the developmental theme of the active child.
B)qualitative stage progression.
C)the holistic nature of child development.
D)biological determinism.
Answer: C
Q2) During embryonic development, ENDODERM is to ECTODERM as ____ is to ____.
A)FAST :: SLOW
B)INNER :: OUTER
C)PASSIVE :: ACTIVE
D)PROGRESSIVE :: RECESSIVE
Answer: B
Q3) Which neonate is relatively SMALLEST in weight for its gestational age since conception?
A)Timely
B)Preterm
C)Small for date
D)Postmature
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Infancy
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Q1) Of the following, the stimulus that would be LEAST likely to attract a neonate's visual attention would be a(n)
A)highly detailed pattern.
B)object that moved slowly across the visual field.
C)stimulus display with sharp contrasts between light and dark areas.
D)human face.
Q2) Which brain area(s) control primitive reflexes?
A)Occipital cerebral cortex, right side
B)Temporal cerebral cortex, left side
C)Frontal cerebral cortex, both sides
D)Subcortical lower regions
Q3) When a young infant is held over the deep side of the visual cliff, its heart pulse rate will
A)slow down.
B)continue unchanged.
C)quicken.
D)change erratically.
Q4) Charlene is worried about her newborn baby and SIDS. What sorts of things can you encourage Charlene to do to reduce the risk of a SIDS episode?
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Chapter 5: Physical Development: the Brain, the Body, Motor Skills,
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Q1) Muscular development occurs
A)primarily during the first few years of life.
B)most rapidly between the ages of six and 12.
C)gradually during childhood and then accelerates during adolescence.
D)most rapidly after the age of 18.
Q2) Suppose that, during feasts in Never-Never Land, it is customary to barbecue the entire animal and then first to eat the head, followed by the body. This sequence resembles the ____ developmental trend.
A)proximodistal
B)"survival TV"
C)failure-to-thrive
D)cephalocaudal
Q3) Compare and contrast typical motor development in three-year-olds, four-year-olds, and five-year-olds.
Q4) ____ results from a malnourished diet lacking both calories and protein.
A)Bulimia
B)Kwashiorkor
C)Marasmus
D)Iron deficiency anemia
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Q5) Explain the role of the hypothalamus in triggering physical growth.
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Chapter 6: Cognitive Development: Piagets Theory and Vygotskys
Sociocultural Viewpoint
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Q1) Beanpole plays basketball. After Beanpole's arm has grown an inch and he overshoots, he shows ____ on later shots by reducing the intensity of the arm movement.
A)neo-nativism
B)assimilation
C)accommodation
D)microgenetic transitivity
Q2) The goal of identity training for preschoolers is to
A)enhance the child's self-esteem.
B)give parents "bragging rights" about the child's early achievements.
C)encourage the child to persist at difficult tasks.
D)help the child master conservation at an early age.
Q3) ____ means that the child understands that an object's basic traits remain the same even when its appearance has changed.
A)Conservation
B)Object constancy
C)Concrete stability
D)Representational insight
Q4) Trace the development of object permanence originally outlined by Piaget.
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Q5) Explain what is meant by theory of mind and when it tends to develop.
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Chapter 7: Cognitive Development: Information-Processing Perspectives
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Q1) A major part of the information-processing perspective is the multistore model, through which information flows. Write explanatory notes about these elements of the multistore model: the sensory store, the short-term store, and the long-term store.
Q2) Deliberate effort to memorize is most likely to be applied during the encoding of A)event memories.
B)strategic memories.
C)foreign memories
D)autobiographical memories.
Q3) Which statement about fuzzy traces is FALSE?
A)They are general global impressions.
B)They require little effort to recall or to use.
C)They are the opposite of precise verbatim memories.
D)They are highly prone to interference and forgetting.
Q4) The discovery, application, and use of memory strategies tend to A)decline with advancing age.
B)remain at a stable level from early childhood through adolescence.
C)increase with advancing age.
D)suppress performance because strategies become confused.
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Chapter 8: Intelligence: Measuring Mental Performance
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Q1) The goal of Alfred Binet's first intelligence test was to identify
A)children who needed remedial instruction.
B)intellectually gifted children who were well adjusted.
C)teachers' innate aptitudes for tutoring slow learners.
D)whether intelligence is a single factor or many factors.
Q2) The dynamic assessment approach answers the question,
A)"How efficiently does the child learn?"
B)"What knowledge does the child presently know?"
C)"To what extent has the child's achievement been inhibited?"
D)"What is the child's genetic potential for achievement?"
Q3) Which of these is NOT among the three parts of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development?
A)Motor scale
B)Circular reaction scale
C)Infant behavioral record
D)Mental scale
Q4) Summarize research and conclusions with regard to how well IQ predicts (a) scholastic achievement, (b) occupational success, and (c) psychological adjustment.
Q5) Discuss research evidence that relates to the "cumulative deficit" hypothesis.
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Chapter 9: Development of Language and Communication Skills
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Q1) Cognitive biases or tendencies that lead infants and toddlers to favor certain interpretations of the meaning of new words over other interpretations are known as A)holophrases.
B)processing constraints.
C)referential styles.
D)pragmatics.
Q2) Which child is especially prone to LEP?
A)A child of an immigrant from a non-English speaking country
B)A child of highly educated professionals
C)A child with eight siblings living in a small house
D)A girl who has sisters but no brothers
Q3) Outline some of the key criticisms that have been raised with respect to the nativist approach to language development.
Q4) Level of ____ is a strong predictor of the child's reading skill in grade school.
A)holophrastic pidginization
B)overextended underextension
C)interest in a well-balanced diet
D)phonological awareness
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Chapter 10: Emotional Development, Temperament, and Attachment
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Q1) Fathers' interactions with their babies are most likely to be
A)playful physical stimulation.
B)protective activities like swatting mosquitoes.
C)routine care such as feeding, bathing, or diapering.
D)related to formal language instruction.
Q2) Which of the following factors is known to promote secure attachment?
A)Interactional synchrony
B)Gender
C)Ethnicity
D)Motivation to please
Q3) Provide an example that illustrates a good fit between a child's temperament and the pattern of child-rearing used by his or her parents, and contrast this with a poor fit.
Q4) Social referencing is like
A)attending a funeral for someone who isn't yet dead.
B)judging a movie by what critics say about it.
C)counting your change at the checkout stand.
D)hating to have to get up in the morning.
Q5) Identify six aspects of caregiving that promote secure attachment relationships between an infant and his or her caregivers.
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Chapter 11: Development of the Self-Concept
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Q1) Preschoolers tend to characterize other people in terms of their
A)unseen but likely genotypes.
B)concrete observable traits.
C)inner feelings that are held back from others.
D)match or mismatch to TV cartoon characters.
Q2) The ethnic stereotypes of five-year-olds are related more to their level of cognitive development than to the ethnic attitudes of their parents. The ethnic attitudes of young children seem to reflect
A)ethnic attitudes seen on television.
B)witnessing a racist act conducted by a parent.
C)a tendency to categorize the stimuli they experience.
D)an innate need to be hostile to those who are different from ourselves.
Q3) The developmental progression in the child's role-taking is from A)collectivism to individualism.
B)an extended self to a present self.
C)learning goals to performance goals.
D)egocentrism to keeping multiple perspectives in mind.
Q4) Define "relational self-worth," and describe how it affects the adolescent's perceptions of his or her own self-worth.
Q5) Explain what is meant by achievement motivation.
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Chapter 12: Sex Differences and Gender-Role Development
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Q1) Discuss Martin and Halverson's gender-schema theory.
Q2) Generally, with respect to various traits, gender differences between boys and girls are
A)large and becoming stronger each year.
B)small and unlikely to characterize the behavior of any particular individual.
C)small and seen mostly at the distributions' middles.
D)small because of society's androgynous push.
Q3) The "timing of puberty" effect on visual/spatial cognitive skills affects A)neither girls nor boys.
B)girls but not boys.
C)boys but not girls.
D)boys and also girls.
Q4) Outline Kohlberg's cognitive-developmental view of sex-role development, with a brief discussion of (a) basic gender identity, (b) gender stability, and (c) gender consistency. Also outline Martin and Halverson's gender-schema theory and its notions of (d) in-group/out-group schema and (e) own-sex schema. Discuss evidence consistent with and/or inconsistent with each of the two theories.
Q5) Describe gender differences in the display of gender-typed behavior during the preschool and grade-school years, and present reasons for those differences.
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Chapter 13: Aggression, Altruism, and Moral Development
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Q1) In various countries, a strong positive correlation of age with moral reasoning maturity has been reported. This outcome ____ Kohlberg's moral reasoning theory.
A)supports
B)is theoretically neutral toward
C)partly supports and also partly disconfirms
D)disconfirms
Q2) List and describe three ways in which parents and teachers might reduce aggressive behaviors in children.
Q3) Colby's 20-year longitudinal study of moral reasoning showed that
A)nearly half of adults had no moral progression at all.
B)many individuals skip stages in Kohlberg's sequence.
C)pet ownership relates to higher moral reasoning.
D)for most adults, their highest reasoning is at the conventional level (level four).
Q4) Children are especially likely to be affected by marital conflict when
A)parents show a pattern of attacking and then withdrawing from one another.
B)they have no siblings.
C)it happens behind closed doors.
D)parents resolve their conflicts.
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Chapter 14: The Context of Development I: the Family
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Q1) The conventional wisdom today is that
A)divorce that results in reduced stress and conflict for the children may be better than an intact marriage that is conflictual.
B)divorce always results in higher levels of stress for the children involved.
C)divorce always results in lower levels of stress for the children involved.
D)marriage is not longer necessary.
Q2) Describe the long-term reactions to divorce and the conventional wisdom on its effects.
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a reason that children with an older sibling benefit more from sibling instruction than an equally competent, older peer?
A)Older siblings feel a greater responsibility to teach if the pupil is a younger sibling.
B)Older sibings provide more detailed instruction and encouragement than older peers do.
C)Younger children are more inclined to seek an older siblings guidance.
D)Older siblings like to show off more than older peers do.
Q4) Describe the general characteristics (personality and behavioral) that are evident in children who experience each of the four different parenting patterns.
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Chapter 15: The Context of Development
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Q1) Jackson's research with urban, disadvantaged, 13- to 14-year-olds showed that the more often these young teens logged onto the Internet at home,
A)the less focused they were on schoolwork.
B)the more aggressive they became in classroom settings.
C)the better their scores were on standardized reading tests six months later.
D)the less likely they were to drop out of school.
Q2) Which of the following is NOT an impact of viewing porn sites on teen attitudes toward sex?
A)Viewing sex as a purely recreational activity
B)Objectification of women
C)Acceptance of premarital and extramarital sex
D)Increased likelihood of commiting a date rape
Q3) One of the reasons adolescents enjoy online communication with peers over face-to-face in some circumstances is because online settings allow them to A)explore sexual identity in lower-risk ways.
B)experience heightened arousal and risk associated with identity exploration.
C)lie about who they are.
D)meet a greater number of people from further away.
Q4) What is meant by the "two worlds of childhood"?
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