Deck 1: A Childs World How Young Children Learn

Question 1

One-to-one correspondence is a concept best describes by which statement?

A)It is essential for rational counting.
B)It refers only to rote counting.
C)It is mastered by most children before they turn three.
D)It is not an essential part of a child's early experiences with rational counting.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Cause and effect is part of a child's early experiences.Which statement best represents its meaning?

A)It refers to relationships between actions and outcomes.
B)It only refers to concrete,physical reactions of objects.
C)It refers to relationships that only children above the age of three can understand.
D)It is only used in contests for scientific experimentation.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Infants cannot turn their heads in the direction of a sound.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The combinatorial property of language has been defined.Which is the correct definition of this property?

A)It refers to how compound words are formed.
B)It means how things or words combine to produce new meaning.
C)It explains how vowels are combined with consonants to produce words.
D)It defines how sentences are constructed with verbs and nouns.

Question 5

Which statement captures best the developmental view of infants?

A)They are blank slates when they are born.
B)They begin their lives with the ability to take in and process perceptual information.
C)They respond only to loud sounds in their environment.
D)They need to be physically active to acquire new information.

Question 6

When a toddler is asked to give everyone at his table exactly one cookie each and he can correctly give one cookie to each child at the table,he is exhibiting the mathematics concept of ___________________________________________.

Question 7

Object permanence is not usually understood until a child is three.
Fill in the Blank
Fill in the most appropriate word or phrase for each of the following sentences.

Question 8

One-to-one correspondence is not necessary for rational counting.

Question 9

The productive property of language has also been defined.Which is the correct definition of this property?

A)It explains how combinations of letters group together to form sounds.
B)It defines how root words can be changed to produce different forms of the word.
C)It explains how language can cause or bring about action.
D)It explains how words can produce feelings and emotions.

Question 10

Children learn to talk in their early years.Which statement best captures this accomplishment?

A)Learning to talk only occurs with formal instruction.
B)Learning to talk occurs without formal instruction.
C)Learning to talk occurs only after they learn the alphabet.
D)Learning to talk usually happens after the age of three.

Question 11

The mathematical concept that involves organizing and ordering things according to an attribute is called____________________.

Question 12

When things with like similar)attributes are grouped together,the process of this action is called ____________________.

Question 13

When a child can put 'like similar)things' together and names the group,she is engaging in __________________________________.

Question 14

Children cannot learn to talk without formal instruction.

Question 15

Seriation is an important concept acquired by young children.Which statement best defines seriation?

A)Seriation is ordering that is only numeric.
B)Seriation refers to grouping or sorting items according to one attribute.
C)Seriation means ordering things along a continuum,according to an attribute.
D)Seriation is simply putting things in categories or groups based only upon measurable attributes such as time,weight,length and number.

Question 16

What is true about the development of speech and language in young children?

A)Speech occurs only with formal instruction.
B)Speech becomes most evident between the ages of two and six years of age.
C)Speech develops simultaneously with learning to read.
D)Speech is the most important evidence of a child's intellectual development.

Question 17

The perception of sound is an important part of early learning.Which is a true statement about the perception of sound?

A)It begins at about the age of six months.
B)It begins before birth.
C)It is not able to be assessed in infants.
D)It develops more quickly in male infants than in female infants.

Question 18

Babies cannot learn to walk and talk at the same time.

Question 19

Patterns are an essential part of logical development in the young child.Which statement best captures this concept?

A)Patterns cannot be understood by children before age three.
B)Patterns refer only to numerical information such as the multiplication tables.
C)Patterns are logical foundations of mathematics and science.
D)Patterns are understood after the acquisition of language.

Question 20

The concept and process of sorting is evident before a child is five.