Test 2

Question 1

True or False:

In Early Childhood, changes in height and weight occur more slowly than in infancy

Answer 1

True

Question 2

In Early childhood, each year children gain about _______ in height and about _______ in weight

Answer 2

5-8 cm in height
2.7 kg in weight

Question 3

True or False:

Children who exhibit less motor activity levels demonstrate a significantly better ability to control or inhibit their behaviour allowing for successful task achievement.

Answer 3

False

Children who exhibit HIGHER motor activity levels demonstrate a significantly better ability to control or inhibit their behaviour allowing for successful task achievement

Question 4

How old are children when their motor activity levels tend to peak?

Answer 4

Between age 7 and 9, which is later than previously thought.

Question 5

The ______________ makes steady progress in motor development

Answer 5

Preschool child

Question 6

The most impressive gains children in early childhood make in their growth and motor skills are in ____________________

Answer 6

Large muscle skills

Question 7

Although early training (beginning at about age 2 ½) can accelerate the development of fine motor skills, which skills still follow the developmental sequence?

Answer 7

Drawing skills

Question 8

List the gross motor skills between 18-24 months

Answer 8

*Runs (20 months)
*Walks well (24 months)
*Climbs stairs with both feet on each step
*Pushes and pulls boxes or wheeled toys
*Unscrews lid on a jar

Question 9

List the gross motor skills between 2-3 years

Answer 9

*Runs easily
*Climbs on furniture unaided
*Hauls and shoves big toys around obstacles

Question 10

List the gross motor skills between 3-4 years

Answer 10

*Walks upstairs one foot per step
*Skips on two feet
*Walks on tiptoe
*Pedals and steers tricycle
*Walks in any direction pulling large toys

Question 11

List the gross motor skills between 4-5 years

Answer 11

*Walks up and down stairs one foot per step
*Stands, runs, and walks on tiptoe

Question 12

List the gross motor skills between 5-6 years

Answer 12

*Skips on alternate feet
*Walks on a line
*Slides, swings

Question 13

List the fine motor skills between 18-24 months

Answer 13

*Shows clear hand preference
*Stacks 4-6 blocks
*Turns pages one at a time
*Picks up things without overbalancing

Question 14

List the fine motor skills between 2-3 years

Answer 14

*Picks up small objects
*Throws small ball while standing

Question 15

List the fine motor skills between 3-4 years

Answer 15

*Catches large ball between outstretched arms
*Cuts paper with scissors
*Holds pencil between thumb and fingers

Question 16

List the fine motor skills between 4-5 years

Answer 16

*Strikes ball with bat
*Kicks and catches ball
*Threads beads on a string
*Grasps pencils properly

Question 17

List the fine motor skills between 5-6 years

Answer 17

*Plays ball games well
*Threads needle and sews large stitches

Question 18

The functional specialization of the left and right hemispheres
of the brain

Answer 18

Lateralization

Question 19

Language is primarily centered in which part of the brain?

Answer 19

Centered in the Left brain

Question 20

What is the cut-off age for our earliest memories?

Answer 20

2 and a half years

Question 21

Most 3-5 year olds need how much sleep?

Answer 21

10-13 hours

Question 22

Environments in which social influences and context contribute to obesity in individuals or populations

Answer 22

Obesogenic environments

Question 23

____________accounted for the largest portion of alleged maltreatment among victims
aged 5 years and younger

Answer 23

Parents

Question 24

_________ have immediate and long-term effects that cross all domains of development

Answer 24

ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences)

Question 25

What are the four risk factors of ACEs?

Answer 25

* Sociocultural factors * Characteristics of the child * Characteristics of the abuser * Household stresses

Question 26

The degree of intensity and duration of a stressor is related to the intensity of the response

Answer 26

Exposure effect

Question 27

persistently elevated physiological arousal caused by strong, recurring, and/or unabated adversity Can lead to lifelong impairments in intellect and learning, as well as emotional, behavioural, physical, and social problems

Answer 27

Toxic stress response

Question 28

The young child’s belief that everyone sees and experiences the world the way he/she does (I hate spaghetti so everyone else also must hate spaghetti)

Answer 28

Egocentrism

Question 29

Children become proficient in the use of symbols in thinking and communicating but still have difficulty thinking logically

Answer 29

Piaget's Preoperational stage

Question 30

Boys enter school with better

Answer 30

Curiosity

Question 31

True or False: Heredity is a highly important influence on IQ

Answer 31

True While initial intelligence is highly heritable, I Q is clearly due to environment or family influences, or interactions between environment and heredity

Question 32

a style of parenting that is low in nurturance and communication, but high in control and maturity demands

Answer 32

Authoritarian parenting style

Question 33

a style of parenting that is high in nurturance and low in maturity demands, control, and communication

Answer 33

Permissive parenting style

Question 34

a style of parenting that is high in nurturance, maturity demands, control, and communication

Answer 34

Authoritative parenting

Question 35

a style of parenting that is low in nurturance, maturity demands, control, and communication; produces the most consistently negative outcomes

Answer 35

Uninvolved parenting style

Question 36

Canadian studies have shown that ______________ is a better predictor of poor outcomes in a child than is a parent’s socio-economic status

Answer 36

parenting style