Unit 13 School, Work, Interventions-Human Growth Devel-PC-H

Which is not a trait of a "high quality" day care?

• good ratio of children to supervising adults

• plenty of adult-child interaction time

• age-appropriate activities

• Plenty of peanut butter sandwiches

Children who do not attend day-care will not catch up on social and vocab skills once they attend kindergarten and elementary school.

• true

• false

Which requires children to be toilet trained and is expected to have a learning curriculum?

• day care

• preschool

Which is not a skill a preschool curriculum should offer?

• social & emotional skills

• language and pre-literacy skills

• motor skills (building muscles with skills)

• self-help skills

• sport skills

Preschools that overemphasize academics can actually lower a child's achievement motivation (create negative feelings about school).

• true

• false

Piaget believed that is stages of learning are discrete and predictable

• true

• false

Piaget believed that cognitive development could be speeded up.

• true

• false

Piaget believes that children are in constant process of creating and refining schemata (mental outline) to better understand how the world works.

• true

• false

Vygotskia believes that conversational interactions with adults is a key component to cognitive development.

• true

• false

Vygotsky believes that learning is more effective when tasks are presented in a natural context.

• true

• false