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Understanding Developmentally Appropriate Practices Quiz

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 26mins

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Class
Date
1.

What are the three principle components associated with Developmentally Appropriate Practice?

a)

Age appropriateness, individual appropriateness, and social/cultural appropriateness

b)

Physical development, social and emotional development, and language and literacy

c)

Safety, health, and nutrition

d)

Curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking

2.

What is the key point about quality child care?

a)

Quality child care lays the foundation for a lifetime of success

b)

High-quality care means children are getting the solid foundation they need to be healthy, happy, and successful throughout life

c)

Quality child care focuses on children birth through eight years old and is made up of three principle components: age appropriateness, individual appropriateness, and social/cultural appropriateness

d)

A lack of quality care has negative effects on children’s school readiness and development

3.

What is the role of a caregiver in planning learning experiences for children?

a)

Caregivers should be passive in planning learning experiences for children

b)

Caregivers should be intentional about planning learning experiences that are purposeful, challenging, and achievable

c)

Caregivers should leave the planning of learning experiences to the children

d)

Caregivers should only plan learning experiences that are easy and not challenging

4.

What factors affect a child's development?

a)

A child's age, temperament, personality, and family history are all factors that affect their development

b)

Only a child's age and temperament affect their development

c)

Only a child's personality and family history affect their development

d)

None of the above factors affect a child's development

5.

When a child simply watches others play and just looks around and does not want to get involved, this is called

a)

Solitary Play

b)

Onlooker Play

c)

Dramatic Play

d)

Unoccupied Play

6.

Preschoolers need friendships which can help to develop their social/emotional cognitive, language, creative and physical developments.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

When children share materials or play with each other and they have a goal and/or purpose. this type of play is

a)

Solitary Play

b)

Associative Group Play

c)

Parallel Play

d)

Cooperative Play

8.

Play develops

a)

teacher student relations

b)

social, emotional, physical, cognitive development

c)

Piaget's theories

9.

Toddlers struggle to "Do it by themselves", even if it is hard to accomplish. This is an example of

a)

Separateness

b)

Guidance

c)

Autonomy

10.

What are typical behaviors from toddlers?

a)

speaking, taste, holding, seeing

b)

crawling, tasting, emotions, feeling

c)

climbing, eating, communication, banging

11.

What is an example of complex play?

a)

A student on a swing and teacher pushing them

b)

A student riding a tricycle alone

c)

A student who has a shopping list and a shopping cart

12.

What is an example of High Mobility?

a)

Running, Sitting, Walking

b)

Running, Climbing, Tricycle Riding

c)

Book Reading, Group Activities, Climbing

13.

Teachers should ask good challenging questions to have children think more deeply?

a)

Appropriate

b)

Inappropriate

14.

Teachers should ask good challenging questions to have children think more deeply?

a)

Appropriate

b)

Inappropriate

15.

What is an example of using fine motor skills?

a)

A student writing with a crayon

b)

A student riding a tricycle alone

c)

A student with shopping list and working with a shopping cart

16.

What is an example of using fine motor skills?

a)

A student writing with a crayon

b)

A student riding a tricycle alone

c)

A student with shopping list and working with a shopping cart

17.

What is an example of gross motor skills?

a)

Singing, Writing, Sitting

b)

Running,Climbing, Tricycle Riding

c)

Book Reading, Group Activities, Climbing

18.

Separation anxiety is .........

a)

when an ECE child shows distress

b)

A classroom that treats children in a separate manner then adults

c)

Associative Group Play

d)

Parallel Play

19.

According to NAYEC Developmentally Appropriate Practice means........

a)

Good work ethics, revised planning, observation and thoughtful decisions

b)

A framework, an approach, a philosophy, age appropriate decisions

c)

Both answers

d)

Neither answer

20.

Empathy is ...........

a)

Being able to understand someone else's feelings and perspective

b)

Being able to sympathize

c)

Being able to read a student's thoughts

21.

When a child plays alone without others this is........

a)

Onlooker play

b)

Parallel play

c)

Solitary play

22.

What are the four types of development?

a)

Social, development, emotional, physical

b)

Emotional, cognitive, spiritual, rational

c)

cognitive, social, physical, emotional

23.

When a child has the inability to consider another person's point of view. This is called .....

a)

Facilitator

b)

Egocentric

c)

Didactic

24.

What are characteristics of a quality preschool?

a)

Developmentally appropriate assessment procedures

b)

Staff training and administrative support

c)

Developmentally appropriate curriculum and low ratios

d)

All of the above

25.

Which of the following is an example of accommodations for children with special needs?

a)

Having a written schedule of the day's activities

b)

Lowering or raising the legs on a sensory table

c)

A separate place for the child to eat away from the group

d)

Keep child inside when the class goes to the playground

26.

Which of the following milestones from the physical domain apply to young children, ages 3-5?

a)

Rolling over back to front

b)

Jumping, hopping, running

c)

Bike riding, leaping, balancing with efficiency

d)

Exploring, sorting, and classifying

27.

Which of the following describes Abraham Maslow's theory?

a)

8 conflicts of emotional development

b)

4 stages of cognitive development

c)

Scaffolding

d)

Hierarchy of needs

28.

Which theorist focused on a child's connections between people and culture?

a)

Piaget

b)

Maslow

c)

Erikson

d)

Vygotsky

29.

Erikson's stage is successful when caregiver is supportive and nurturing to infant's needs?

a)

Trust vs. mistrust

b)

Initiative vs. guilt

c)

Autonomy vs. doubt/shame

d)

Industry vs. inferiority

30.

Which of Erikson's stages occurs during a child's VPK year?

a)

Trust vs. mistrust

b)

Initiative vs. guilt

c)

Autonomy vs doubt/shame

d)

Industry vs. inferiority