FCS 324 Week 5 Quiz

Module 5 Quiz - Early Childhood

FCS 324 Week 5 Quiz  | Los Rios Community College

Question 1

Sam is 3 years old, and his brother, Dan is 2 years old. What is Sam likely to have that Dan does not?  

·         All of his primary teeth.

·         The physical proportions of an adult.  

·         The physical proportions of a child.  

·         Perfect 20/20 vision

 

 Question 2

Which of the following disorders involves delayed or lacking development of theory of mind?  

·         Bipolar disorder. 

·         Schizophrenia.   

·         Autism.  

·         Depression.

 

Question 3

Mike slapped his brother, so his mother places him in “time out” to reconsider his actions. What operant conditioning principle does this use?  

·         positive reinforcement 

·         negative reinforcement 

·         positive punishment 

·         negative punishment

 

Question 4

Ruben is a middle school teacher. He spend a great deal of energy thinking about how to get his budding scientists to work on challenging tasks that they can’t easily do on their own, but they can do with the help of their peers. Ruben is relying on which psychological concept?  

·         fast-mapping    

·         the zone of proximal development  

·         overregularization  

·         egocentric speech

 

Question 5

Sam is 15 and his cousin, John, is 4. How are John's taste preferences likely to differ from those of his older brother?  

·         Taste preferences have to relevance to age, so this is impossible to predict.    

·         John's taste preferences are likely to be less established.

·         John's taste preferences are likely to be more established.  

·         John's taste preferences are likely to be the same as Sam's.

 

Question 6

Steven’s mom just lost her job and she’s not sure how she’s going to make ends meet. Lately, Steven hasn’t had much reassurance he’ll get enough food to eat on a daily basis. What type of stress is this most likely to be?  

·         sositive stress    

·         toxic stress    

·         tolerable stress  

·         indirect stress

 

 Question 7

Children raised with this parenting style may fail to learn self-discipline and develop uncertainty toward boundaries.  

·         Permissive    

·         Authoritarian  

·         Authoritative  

·         Uninvolved

 

 Question 8

Sam is 4 years old, and she is learning to utilize language effectively and think about the world symbolically. Which of Piaget's developmental stages is sam currently in?  

·         Preoperational.    

·         Concrete operational. 

·         Sensorimotor.  

·         Formal operational.

 

Question 9

Kodi is 4 years old. Throughout potty training his parents have been harsh and ridiculed him often for mistakes. According to Freud's theory, which of the following is Kodi likely to be as an adult?  

·         Sluggish, quiet, and lazy.  

·         Stubborn, neat, and stingy. 

·         Hyper, loud, and goal oriented.  

·         Messy, wasteful, and harsh.

 

 Question 10

Janet is the mother of a 6 year old. She is looking for a way to decrease his risk of obesity. Which of the following is likely to help her do this?  

·         Increase his water consumption.

·         Use food as a behavior bride.  

·         Use food as a reinforcement.  

·         Increase his fruit juice intake.

 

 Question 11

The area of the brain behind the forehead that helps us to think, strategize, and control emotions is the ________.  

·         dendrites 

·         myelination   

·         prefrontal cortex 

·         corpus callosum

 

 Question 12

The processes of myelination and synaptic pruning make neural processing ________ and ________ complex.  

·         slower; more 

·         faster; more  

·         slower; less 

·         slower; more

 

 Question 13

The theory of mind is:  

·         the understanding that cognition changes throughout childhood and subsequent stages of development.  

·         the understanding that the mind creates memories that are almost exact pictures of what happened. 

·         the understanding that the mind is comprised of biological structures and various chemicals.  

·         the understanding that the mind holds people's beliefs, desires, emotions, and intentions.

 

Question 14

A sticker chart designed to reward a child for every ten stickers earned for doing household chores is an example of what?  

·         a token economy    

·         negative reinforcement  

·         positive conditioning  

·         a time out schedule

 

 Question 15

________ is gross motor skill, while ________ is a fine motor skill.  

·         Walking; coloring  

·         writing; coloring  

·         Walking; running  

·         Breathing; blinking

 

 Question 16

Young children tend to lack the awareness that altering a substance's appearance does not change its basic properties. What is this awareness called?  

·         Conservation. 

·         Animism.  

·         Egocentrism.  

·         Centration.

 

 Question 17

Jake is 4 years old, and learning to use language and think about the world symbolically. His older sister Jaimie is 13 years old, and progressing into puberty. Jake's younger sister, Taylor, just turned a year old. Which of these children - Jake, Jaimie, or Taylor - are considered to be in the preoperational stage of development according to Piaget's theory?

·         Taylor 

·         None of them 

·         Jaimie  

·         Jake

 

Question 18

Edgar can sound out most three-letter words, but when he sees a long eight-letter word, he turns to his teacher instead of trying to sound it out. His teacher encourages him to go ahead and try to sound it out by breaking it down into two parts. According to Vygotsky, Edgar  

·         is developing his fast-mapping skills.  

·         needs to practice his language overregularization.  

·         is in the zone of proximal development. 

·         is engaged in egocentric speech.

 

 Question 19

Jenna is 6 years old, and her sister Anna is 3 years old. How are Jenna's physical proportions likely to differ from those of Anna?  

·         Jenna is likely to have a longer torso.  

·         Jenna and Anna's physical proportions are likely to be the same. 

·         Jenna is likely to have more baby fat.  

·         Jenna is likely to have a smaller torso.

 

 Question 20

Sam is 3 years old, and many of the shows she watches provide opportunities for viewers to jump and dance. Which type of motor skill development does this promote?  

·         Sleep.   

·         Gross motor skills.    

·         Fine motor skills. 

·         Respiration.

 

 Question 21

Angela is 7 years old, and her little sister, Maurya is 2 years old. How are Angela's visual pathways likely to differ from those of her sister?

  

·         Angela's visual pathways are not likely to be different from those of her sister.  

·         Angela's visual pathways are likely to be more mature, allowing her illustrations to more clearly reflect what she visualizes  

·         There is no way to predict this, because visual pathway development depends on the individual child and his/her situation.  

·         Angela's visual pathways are likely to be less mature, allowing her illustrations to more clearly reflect what she visualizes.

 

Question 22

In a pre-k classroom, children are allowed time to play with toys throughout the day. The teacher encourages the girls to play with dolls, and the boys to play with toy trucks. Which of the following concepts does this reflect?  

·         Gender identity.  

·         Gender role socialization.    

·         Gender stereotyping.  

·         Gender constancy.

 

 Question 23

Michael is 3 years old, and while playing outside he falls and scrapes his knee. When his grandmother later asks him what happened, he tells her that the driveway was being mean and made him fall. Which limitation of childhood thinking does this belief reflect?  

·         Egocentrism  

·         Centration  

·         Conservation  

·         Animism

 

Question 24

Which of the following situations is most likely to be a positive stressor and learning experience?  

·         parental divorce and custody changes  

·         the death of a grandparent 

·         lack of sufficient nutrition on a daily basis   

·         meeting a new friend and forming a connection

 

Question 25

Deion, who is 4 years old, is very surprised when he meets a woman firefighter who comes to his school. He tells her that he thought only men were firefighters. What does this reflect?

  

·         Gender stereotyping. 

·         Gender roles.  

·         Gender identity.  

·         Gender constancy.