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Course Introduction
Educational Psychology explores the scientific study of how people learn and develop in educational settings. The course examines key theories of cognitive, behavioral, and social development, motivation, individual differences, and classroom management. Students will analyze how psychological concepts influence teaching strategies, curriculum design, assessment methods, and student outcomes. Emphasis is placed on applying research-based principles to foster effective learning environments, address diverse learner needs, and promote academic and personal growth.
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Children Play and Development 4th Edition by Fergus
P. Hughes
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Chapter 1: Historical and Theoretical Viewpoints
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Q1) For a thousand years before the birth of Christ, children in the Mediterranean world were thought of as incapable of directing their own affairs, but they were never ____________, as they often are today.
A) expected to work
B) romanticized
C) allowed to play
D) given toys
E) supervised by adults
Answer: B
Q2) According to _____________theory, each person's development reflects the evolutionary pro?gression of the entire human species.
Answer: recapitulation
Q3) Erik Erikson believed that the major value of play was to build children's self-esteem rather than to reduce children's anxiety.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Ethological and Cultural Perspectives
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Q1) One of the intriguing features of animal play, particularly that of mammals, is the frequency with which it contains elements of ________.
Answer: aggression
Q2) Which is true of the relationship between animal play and skill in "real world" situations?
A) Animals who play the most when young have better motor skills as adults.
B) The amount of juvenile play is in no way related to adult skills.
C) Juvenile play causes an improvement in later "real world" skills.
D) Animals who play a lot when young fail to develop necessary "real world" skills.
Answer: A
Q3) ____________ involves a stress on the importance of group goals, group loyalty, and group identification.
Answer: Collectivism
Q4) Children in poorer underdeveloped countries are more likely to emphasize cooperation than competition when they play.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: The First 2 Years of Life
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Q1) In the second year of life, there is a decline in
A) object play.
B) symbolic play.
C) play with only one object at a time.
D) decontextualization.
E) mental representation.
Answer: C
Q2) The main value of toys for infants up to the age of three months is to _______________.
Answer: stimulate the senses.
Q3) Approximately___ percent of mothers of preschool children in the United States hold jobs outside the home.
Answer: 67
Q4) Compared to Americans, Mexican children
A) show no interest in playing with their younger siblings.
B) resemble American mothers in their degree of involvement in play with younger siblings.
C) are too involved in the actual raising of younger siblings to play with them.
D) are usually cruel, or at best indifferent, toward younger siblings.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: The Preschool Years: From 2 to 5
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Q1) Taking on imaginary roles helps children to control their own impulsive behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Children appear to be the most closely attached to parents who tend to be secure, and who are confident in their _______ skills.
Q3) Dramatic play has been found to have benefits for the preschool child in the areas of affective, intellectual, and social development. Describe the benefits of dramatic play in each of the three areas.
Q4) The type of play that is most significantly influenced by nutritional deficiencies is __________ play.
Q5) Most of five-year-old Paul's pretend play is solitary, and he rarely engages in group pretend activities even though he has many children available to play with. What can be said of Paul's play patterns?
A) They are perfectly normal for a child his age.
B) They suggest the possibility that Paul is socially immature.
C) They are normal for a boy, but would suggest immaturity in a girl.
D) They are indicative of emotional disturbance.
E) They indicate that Paul is more socially mature than his age-mates.
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Chapter 5: Play in Later Childhood and Adolescence
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Q1) There is a decrease in make-believe play during the elementary school years.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In cultures that do not have formal schooling, four of the following events occur at about the same age as formal schooling begins in American society. Which does not belong with the other four?
A) Children began to engage in formal reasoning.
B) Children leave the protection of the family.
C) Children stop playing childhood games.
D) Children become more productive members of the community
E) Children become increasingly peer oriented.
Q3) A _______ orientation emphasizes internal standards of mastery and self-improvement.
Q4) List and describe the various functions of the peer group during the elementary school years. What can the peer group teach that adults cannot, or will not, teach children?
Q5) Unlike the grade school child, the adolescent sees a relationship as an opportunity to satisfy a need to ___________.
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Chapter 6: Gender Differences in Play
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Q1) In one study it was found that one in every four young children was unable to tell the difference between television cartoons and ____________.
Q2) Describe the subtle, and not-so-subtle, ways in which toy manufacturers suggest in their advertising that a particular toy is intended for children of one sex rather than the other.
Q3) Rough-and-tumble play is always _______, and always contains components of __________.
Q4) After extensive analysis of the marble games of elementary school children, Piaget observed that games played by girls had fewer _______ than games played by boys.
Q5) Girls tend to play in large groups, while boys are more likely to play with just one or two friends.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Commercials designed to appeal to boys are louder than those that target girls, and more likely to depict scenes of _________.
Q7) Gender _________ is the recognition that males and females are different on the basis of their physical characteristics.
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Chapter 7: Play in Special Populations
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Q1) The specific emotional disorder that has received the most attention from researchers in terms of its impact on play is _______.
Q2) When they are included in groups with typically developing children, the play of special children is more sophisticated than when they are placed in separate settings.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Preschool children who have difficulty understanding language or using it expressively have four of the following characteristics. Which statement is not correct in describing such children?
A) They are usually well liked and accepted by their peers.
B) They often behave aggressively with peers.
C) They are less capable of handling peer conflict.
D) They are easily frustrated when interacting with peers.
E) They are more dependent on adults for assistance than are other children.
Q4) Hospitalization is often so stressful an experience for young children that it can actually delay recovery.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Play and Intellectual Development
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Q1) Play materials such as paint and clay fit into the category of _______ toys.
A) fluid construction
B) structured construction
C) microsymbolic
D) macrosymbolic
Q2) Single-solution problems require the ability to engage in what is known as __________ problem solving.
Q3) __________ is the recognition that space can be divided into different-size units and that a certain number of units of one size correspond to a different number of units of another.
Q4) Define and give examples of convergent and divergent thinking, making certain to discuss the differences between them. Which do you think is most often required of children in educational settings? Explain your answer.
Q5) Creative children are more likely to have a well-developed sense of humor. A)True B)False
Q6) Preschool children often fail to use logic when they classify and instead rely only on
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Chapter 9: The Social Benefits of Play
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Q1) When asked about specific types of musical experience they prefer, children express the least amount of interest in
A) dancing and moving freely to music.
B) singing songs.
C) playing musical instruments.
D) listening to music.
E) being an active participant in the experience.
Q2) Coaching children in a variety of social skills has been found to lead to advances in peer acceptance.
A)True
B)False
Q3) If children are closely attached to their parents the effects are obvious in early childhood but they disappear by the time the child is in elementary school.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Modeling is the most effective type of intervention program for helping children develop social skills.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: The Uses of Play in Therapy
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Q1) Which therapist is most likely to argue that therapy should never be hurried, and should proceed at the child's own pace?
A) Klein
B) Freud
C) Gardner
D) Hug-Hellmuth
E) Axline
Q2) The first person to use play in psychoanalytic therapy with children was
A) Melanie Klein.
B) Anna Freud.
C) Virginia Axline.
D) Sigmund Freud.
E) Hermine Hug-Hellmuth.
Q3) Anna Freud and Melanie Klein shared similar views about the meaning of play, but they also disagreed on how play should be incorporated into therapy with children. What points did they agree on? What was their major disagreement about the uses of play?
Q4) Bibiliotherapy and mutual storytelling are identical to one another.
A)True
B)False
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