Exam 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

Questions about moral reasoning, such as "Is it OK to lie?" are often the focus of which approach?

By age 3, children understand that a child who wants a treat will be happy upon receiving one and sad upon not.

Your best friend is the father of a 4-year-old. Your friend believes that early childhood education programs should stick to academic instruction. He is opposed to child-directed programs, believing that children have time to play at home, and school should be devoted to learning academic skills. What advice would you give your friend, and why?

Which type of skills most directly allows young children to take greater responsibility for their own care?

Which term refers to knowledge of how the mind works and the ability to control the mind?

Follow-up research on Piaget's preoperational stage indicates that most 4-year-olds understand ______.

Danica is capable of preoperational reasoning. According to Piaget's cognitive developmental perspective, Danica is between the which ages?

The definition of a preschool that provides children with a structured learning environment through which they learn letters, numbers, shapes, and academic skills via drills and formal lessons is ______.

While vacuuming the playroom, Jackson's mother set his train track on a table. Seeing that the track had been moved, Jackson became upset and complained that his track was ruined. After Jackson's mother returned the track to the floor, Jackson continued to fuss, arguing that his trains would no longer work on the track. Jackson's inability to understand that moving the track from the table to the floor restored it to the original state is an example of ______.

Which term refers to children's awareness of their own and other people's mental processes?

A statement that describes the brain is that ______.

In Western cultures, mothers rarely engage in scaffolding behaviors.

Young children require diets that resemble those of adults.

Pierce tends to assume that new words are labels for unfamiliar objects. This strategy is referred to as ______.

Between the ages of 4 and 5, children's drawings reflect the convergence of ______.

Research has discovered that Piaget's tests of preoperational thinking showed young children's cognitive abilities to be ______.

Explain why research on Samoan and Vanuatu children of the South Pacific showed delayed development in theory of mind.

Research indicates a finding associated with picky eating is ______.

Characteristics of high-quality, effective early childhood education is similar across all cultures studied.

Preschoolers who are aware of their own private speech tend to ______.