WorksheetsCDES 140 F Quiz #3 Ch. 8 & 9
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Core Knowledge suggests that infants learn through:
sucking and banging
home and child care experiences
predisposition to pay attention to aspects of the environment necessary for survival
rich language experiences and good nutrition
The emotional foundations of learning are:
A) emotional expression and attachment
B) identity formation and emotional expression
C) identity formation and regulation
D) regulation and attachment
Mattie (2-years-old) struggled but continued to stack the blocks in a certain way. She is demonstrating:
A) persistence through frustration
B) attention
C) curiosity
D) memory
In regard to sensory experience infants:
A) can not see or hear well until age 2
B) have very few capabilities until age 1
C) do not expect that their senses will provide coherent information
D) expect that their senses will provide coherent information
Infants are calmed through the sense of:
A) taste
B) touch
C) sight
D) hearing
Cognitive development describes the learning a person does to
A) participate in his or her own culture.
B) learn about the objects in the world.
C) learn language.
D) learn about numbers
Marisol picked up one rattle after another and shook them, listening to the noises that they made. However, she didn't pick up the ball and shake it. She is demonstrating her ability to:
A) imitate
B) problem-solve
C) categorize
D) engage in symbolic play
When Marisol picked up one rattle after another and shook them, listening to the noises that they made, but did not pick up the ball and shake it, she was using:
A) visible information
B) invisible information
C) cultural learning
D) decentered symbolic play
Zoe picked up the toy cup and pretended to give her doll a drink. She was engaged in:
A) auto-symbolic play
B) automatic symbolic play
C) repeated symbolic play
D) decentered
symbolic play
Because Hanna (an infant/toddler teacher) understood the concept of habituation she:
A) only introduced new toys every 6 months
B) provided kangaroo care
C) tried to use the same sound (such as "oo") when with a baby for several minutes
D) used different sounds when cooing with a baby
Concepts are:
A) a type of scaffolding
B) a generalized mental representation
C) a group of objects that are organized in a specific way
D) abilities
When an adult adjusts the amount of help given in response to a child's level of performance to support the child to achieve what he could not do alone it is called:
A) attachment
B) attunement
C) scaffolding
D) mirroring
When a child learns about how objects and people continue to exist despite changes in settings or emotional tone he is learning about:
A) object permanence
B) use of tools
C) use of space
D) cause and effect
Executive function involves
A) working memory, self-control, and mental flexibility
B) problem-solving, persistence, and concepts
C) social
D) regulation, memory, and persistence
Amber listens intently when her mother talks to her. Then Amber takes a turn in the conversation. This is an example of:
A) semantics
B) syntax
C) pragmatics
D) prosody
Carmen continued saying "da, da" as she looked at her teacher. Her teacher would look at Carmen, smile, and repeat the sounds each time Carmen said them. Carmen's primary purpose is to:
A) develop a lexicon
B) learn new words
C) establish human connection
D) develop communication skills
Early language experience affects:
A) the character of the child
B) the child's capacity to learn language
C) the temperament of children
D) the child's capacity to learn numbers
Bilingual children:
A) generally have smaller total vocabularies than monolingual children
B) generally reach developmental milestones at the same time in both languages
C) only use one word from one of the languages that they are learning to label an object
D) have great difficulty learning two languages
While all of the following strategies are important, if you were to provide training for an infant/toddler center that wanted to support the language development of young children, which of the following is the most important thing to tell them?
A) Be an empathic language partner
B) Use joint attention strategies.
C) Use the 4 E approach.
D) Use infant directed speech.
10) By what age can children hear the differences in all of the consonants and vowels used in all languages?
A) Birth to 2 months
B) 2 to 4 months
C) 4 to 8 months
D) 8 to 12 months
When Alan talked about the car going by, his teacher said, "Yes, a blue car." She was using:
A) a directive style
B) self-talk
C) semantic elaboration
D) parallel talk
Language explosion or productive naming explosion occurs between:
A) 4-8 months
B) 8-12 months
C) 12-18 months
D) 18-24 months
A parent of a 4-month-old said to the baby, "You are such a sweetie. Here's your blanky." The teacher told the mother that she:
A) should stop speaking baby talk
B) was using infant-directed speech that babies like
C) was using directive speech that babies don't like
D) was using semantically responsive talk
When Mackenzie (11 months-old) pointed to the picture in the book, her teacher said, "That's a cow. That's a brown cow." Mackenzie's teacher knew about the importance of:
A) self-talk
B) joint attention
C) parallel talk
D) "listening with her eyes"
Which of the following is most likely to contribute to children having lower language scores at age 3 than many other children?
A) Living in a high-risk environment
B) A boisterous, active temperament
C) The gender of the child
D) A child learning two languages
