Exam 10: Effective Guidance Interventions

Why is it important to treat babies, toddlers, and children with dignity and respect?​

It is often effective to involve a child in a substitute activity that ____________________ the same part of the body as the mildly annoying behavior.

In behavior modification, the adult determines the desired behavior and punishes undesirable behavior to extinguish it.

Rules have a great deal more meaning for preschoolers and school-agers if they fully understand the ____________________ for the rules.

It is often helpful to ____________________ the child from a problem situation.

Because ____________________ can cause toddlers to behave inappropriately, adults should provide a safe environment with interesting things to explore that challenge budding motor skills.

____________________ is the process of "acting out" or practicing a behavioral interaction.

How can adults determine the appropriate level of firmness for responding to a specific misbehavior?​

Children's negative feelings should

How does adult optimism impact children's behavior?​

Children need many opportunities to hear a rule ____________________ before they can be trusted to remember it.

Give two of your own examples of appropriate and clear expressions of feelings that give children information without attacking them.

A toddler who gets bitten will not be likely to bite anyone else because he or she knows how much it hurts.

Identify strategies for adults to maintain their dignity and authority while being honest and straightforward with children.

Children should be given freedom of choice in their actions because even the most general limits will restrict their development.

If a child's inappropriate sexual behavior seems persistent and oddly unchild-like, adults should seek the advice of a(n) ____________________.

Adults should let children know that they are optimistic that the child will achieve appropriate behavior.

How should you respond to biting? ​

Children are not helped by intrusive and overwhelming attempts to change too much of their behavior at once.

y allowing children to experience safe, reasonable consequences of their actions, we help them become____________________.