Early Learning Fall Final Exam Review

____ have become the most popular type of care and education.

• Head Start programs

• Kindergarten

• Child care centers

• Parent cooperatives

The first kindergarten focused on ____.

• cognitive development

• social-emotional development

• social development

• play

A sign of a quality early childhood program is ____.

• staff concern for the feelings and rights of others

• high staff turnover

• undertrained staff

• a loose, unplanned schedule

For young children, stressors related to child care include ____.

• starting in a new early childhood program

• having inattentive teachers because of insufficient adult-child ratios

• having inadequate materials or space

• All the above.

Young children in early childhood settings commonly express fear of ____.

• the toys and equipment

• the dark

• the teachers

• the teachers

Which is not a sign of stress in young children?

• Accident-proneness

• Smiling

• Teeth grinding

• Thumbsucking

Teachers should provide art activities because ____.

• parents demand them

• parents demand them

• they allow children to express their feelings and ideas

• they are inexpensive

Which of the following is an example of a fine motor skill activity?

• 
  Running

• Cutting with scissors

• Jumping

• Dancing

Which painting activity stimulates the sense of smell?

• Easel painting

• Car painting

• String painting

• Spice painting

Presenting a child with circle, triangle, diamond, square, and rectangle shapes and having the child point to the square is an example of ____.

• conducting a color activity

• assessment by observation

• teaching rote counting

• specific task assessment