Early Childhood Test Review

Match the following

• guidance

• Age-appropriate activities and teaching methods that consider each child’s strengths, interests, and culture.

• discipline

• Help, assistance, leadership, and regulation for children learning to behave acceptably.

• developmentally appropriate practices

• Techniques and methods caregivers use to teach children to behave acceptably.

• permissive style

• Parenting style that tends to let children control situations, making the decisions with few limits or controls

• authoritative style

• Parenting style that tends to offer support while setting clear limits.

Match the following

• fine-motor skills

• People who must legally report suspected instances of child neglect and abuse.

• authoritarian style

• Parenting style that tends to be controlling and corrective.

• center-based child care programs

• Physical tasks involving small muscle movements.

• mandated reporters

• Activities that utilize only one type of teaching or caregiving strategy without variation or adjustment for a child’s individual needs.

• developmentally inappropriate practices

• Programs provided in a center and not in a home, and may serve a few or many children.

Match the following

• work-related child care programs

• Threatening to or inflicting harm on a child.

• family child care centers

• Programs operated in the child care worker’s private home for a small number of children.

• childproofing

• Physical tasks involving large muscle movements.

• gross-motor skills

• Not-for-profit programs businesses may run for their employees’ children.

• child abuse

• Process of ensuring an environment is safe for children.

Match the following

• child neglect

• Endangerment of or harm to a child caused by an adult’s failure to provide for the child’s basic needs.

• prekindergarten programs

• Programs for children who will be in kindergarten the following year.

• preschool programs

• Programs for children two through four years of age.

Nannies and au pairs are child care workers who provide care in their own homes.

• True

• False

Licensing requires in-home centers to meet certain standards set forth by the state.

• True

• False

Places of worship and other community centers are examples of work-related child care programs.

• True

• False

Organizing playgroups that focus on good parenting skills is one way parent educators teach parents the necessary skills to meet their children’s needs.

• True

• False

Licensing requirements for preschool teachers are consistent from state to state.

• True

• False

Infancy refers to the time period from birth to one month of age.

• True

• False