Exercise #2: Development of Learners

When toddlers are developed too negatively or are ignored, which do they develop?

• Mistrust

• Shame

• Total dependence

• Inferiority

 In which Piagetian stage of development are infants?

• Pre-operational

• Concrete operational

• Sensorimotor

• Formal operational

What is meant by the sensorimotor stage of toddlerhood?

• Children rely on senses and behavioral schemes to acquire knowledge.

• Children imitate an action that was observed in the past.

• Children are able to have one thing represent another.

• Children know that objects that are out of view continue to exist

By the end of the sensorimotor period, the toddler understands object permanence. What does object permanence mean? The understanding that objects:

• continue to exist even when they cannot be seen.

• don’t exist when they are no longer seen.

• never changes.

• change in shape and in color.

A toddler is capable of creative thought. Which proves this? 

I. Can use the same toy in more than one way

II. Pretends empty milk can is a drum

III. Constructs objects out of manipulative toys

•  I and II

• I, II and III

• II and III

• I and II

To test a toddler's logical reasoning, what must you find out? If the child can:

• make new things out of old toys

• pronounce words correctly

•  reason out why something happens

• distinguish between father from other men

Which is the most essential need of adolescents?

I. Firm and caring teachers who empathize with them

II. Teachers who provide the security of clear limits for acceptable behavior

III. Teacher’s sensitivity to reach out to them

• I and II

• I and III

• II and III

• I, II and III

All can be expected to be performed by a three year old, EXCEPT _____.

• pouring from pitcher without spillage

• feeding self using a spoon

•  taking a bath independently

• putting on socks

Having activities that involve balancing is good for ___.

• three-year-olds

• four-year-olds

• five-year-olds

• three to five-year-oldS

The amount of sleep preschoolers get, affects all EXCEPT____.

•  level of brain activity

• obesity

•  level of regained energy

• release of growth hormones