Ch 3 Flashcards
(39 cards)
Asking one child to compare her ideas with another child’s idea is not recommended
False
Teachers and conversations encourage preschoolers to step outside their own perceptions
True
Older preschoolers may judge other preschoolers on the correctness of their utterance
True
Physical exercise offers children discovery opportunities that may affect Cognitive reasoning
True
A rapid learning curve is typical for most preschoolers
True
Emotions influence cognitive abilities
True
By age 3 the child’s brain is about half as active as an adult brain
False
Having friends during the preschool years has only a small impact on a child’s language growth and development
False
Subtle lessons provided by adults could build language skills
True
Preschoolers brains are thought to be more flexible than adults
True
Most preschool children have 2020 vision
False
Between ages four and five most children have adult like hearing
True
Increasingly subtle details are noticed by preschools
Truth
Development involve changes or shifts in the way a child organizes her experiences and sees her environment and usually moves from the simple understandings two more complex ones
True
Preschooler systematically examine features of their environment
True
As preschoolers age they get better at ignoring the irrelevant features of situation
True
Preschoolers exposed to a Montessori education perform manual tasks and manipulate real objects
True
Theirists agree that intelligence and language abilities grow at the same rate
False
The deaf child brain contains nerve pathways that Are essential for learning language but these fade and visual signals are increasingly processed
Truth
Neural connections are believed to grow at regular rates
False
About 35% of all preschoolers have
Uncorrected eye problems
False
A school staff member performing an Eye screening will usually catch all problems
False
A mental image is a perceptualn representation
True
There is a strong connection between early language development and the act of reading
True