Understanding Developmentally Appropriate Practices Flashcard

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What are the three principle components associated with Developmentally Appropriate Practice?

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Age appropriateness, individual appropriateness, and social/cultural appropriateness

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What is the key point about quality child care?

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Quality child care lays the foundation for a lifetime of success

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What is the role of a caregiver in planning learning experiences for children?

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Caregivers should be intentional about planning learning experiences that are purposeful, challenging, and achievable.

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What factors affect a child's development?

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A child's age, temperament, personality, and family history are all factors that affect their development.

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When a child simply watches others play and just looks around and does not want to get involved, this is called

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Onlooker Play

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Do preschoolers need friendships to help develop their social/emotional cognitive, language, creative, and physical developments?

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True

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When children share materials or play with each other and they have a goal and/or purpose, this type of play is

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Cooperative Play

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Play develops

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social, emotional, physical, cognitive development

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Toddlers struggle to "Do it by themselves", even if it is hard to accomplish. This is an example of

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Autonomy

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What are typical behaviors from toddlers? Options: speaking, taste, holding, seeing; crawling, tasting, emotions, feeling; climbing, eating, communication, banging

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climbing, eating, communication, banging