WorksheetsChapter 5: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
Sandra is informed by a pediatrician that her 4-year-old son Manuel has gained 6 pounds over the past year. Sandra should be
alarmed, because Manuel has gained a lot of weight.
concerned, because Manuel has gained less weight than has become common at this age.
positive and make changes to Manuel's diet.
content, because this is normal for Manuel's age.
Identify a characteristic of autobiographical memory.
It involves memory of significant events and experiences in the lives of others.
It allows people to do routine work without requiring conscious thought.
It involves memory of significant events and experiences in one's life.
It is limited to information that is retained for up to 30 seconds if it is not rehearsed.
Which of the following determines the categories for underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese?
weight
average calories consumed daily
waist-to-hip ratio
body mass index
Many young children from low-income families suffer from a lack of all of the following, EXCEPT
iron.
vitamins.
protein.
carbohydrates.
Piaget's preoperational stage is so named because he believed that children in this stage of development
cannot yet perform reversible mental actions.
cannot yet form stable concepts.
are unable to reason.
cannot operate electronic devices like televisions.
Which of the following scenarios best represents Vygotsky's view of mental and behavioral development?
A teacher assigns challenging tasks that students must complete on their own.
An instructor helps students with laboratory work, showing the student show to do things they cannot yet do on their own.
A teacher waits patiently for students to come up with good answers and assesses their learning capabilities.
An instructor systematically offers standardized tests to students to evaluate their mental abilities on varying subjects.
Using rehearsal, we can keep information in short-term memory for a much longer period. In this context, rehearsal means
preparing for a memory-span test.
doing mental exercises daily to keep one's mind sharp.
repeating information after it has been presented.
taking regular memory-span tests.
Three-year-old Zelda always asks questions like "Where Daddy is going?" and "What Mommy is doing?" This indicates that she has yet to learn the auxiliary-inversion rule and to apply the rules of
pragmatics.
morphology.
syntax.
phonology.
In the context of cognitive development in early childhood, which of the following is true of pragmatics?
It refers to relating a word to its referent quickly.
It is the awareness that changing an object's appearance does not change its basic properties.
It refers to focusing one's attention on one characteristic to the exclusion of all others.
It is the appropriate use of language in different contexts.
Dorothy is enrolled in a preschool where she spends much of her time in unstructured activities. She plays with the toys she chooses, and her teacher acts as a facilitator rather than a director. Which of the following approaches is Dorothy's preschool using?
the kindergarten approach
the Rogerian approach
the Montessori approach
the child-oriented approach
