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Single groups should not have many more than 14 to 20 children, and there should be nor more than 5 yo 10 three year olds per caregiver, or seven to ten four- or five year olds per caregiver
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True of high quality child care
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Parents in the US see preschool primarily as a way of giving children a good start academically and as a wa of giving the children the opportunity to be part of a group. True or False?
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False
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Fast mapping
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allows children to acquire vocabulary at a rate of nearly one new word every 2 hours, 24 hours a day
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syntax
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by the time a preschooler is 3, the various combinations reach into the thousands
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Between the late twos and mid threes, the way children combine words and phrases to form sentences---known as __________.
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syntax
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Symbolic thought is at the heart of the increasingly sophisticated use of language, according to piaget, true or false?
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true, piaget suggests that language and thinking are inextricable intertwined, and
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__________ refers to preschoolers use of primitive reasoning and their avid acquisition of knowledge about the world.
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Intuitive thought
-bc intuitive thinking prepares them for more sophisticated thinking, by the end of the preoperational period, preschoolers begin to understand the notions of functionality and identity. |
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When recalling going to her favorite fast food restaurant last week, a child who normally eats at the restaurant, recalls eating at the restaurant even though on this occasion they took the food home. This is because of the child's _________.
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script
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Poverty is linked to the type of language to which children are exposed, which is associated with thier performance on tests of intelligence.
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True
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Typically provide care for children all day and tend to focus on social and emotional aspects
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Child Care Centers
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Explicitly designed for intellectual and social experiences and tend to be more limited in their schedules
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Preschools or nursery schools
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Often targetec at disadvantaged children
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School Child Care
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Among the most controversial findings relating to the specialization of the hemispheres of the brain involves evidence that lateralization is related to economic factors and culture only. True of False>
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False
**This is actually related to gender and culture |
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The average child in the US weighs about _____ after his or her second birthday.
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25-30
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By the time children enter first grade, they know about 10,000 words. True of False?
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True
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Family factors such as hostility and anxious parenting, play an important role in children with ADHD. True of False?
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True
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Low self esteem reflects a combination of ______ and ________.
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low worthiness and low competence
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Most 3 year olds do have the ability to understand that someone can feel happy and sad at the same time. True or False?
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true
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observable differences in behaviors of boys and girls generally have not been found before age 2. True or false?
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True
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What best characterizes the concrete operational period?
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using logiv and problem solving strategies
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The transition from _________ thought to _________ thought occurs between the ages of 5 and 7.
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preoperational thought to concrete operational thought
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During which period do children begin to read affluently?
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Concrete operational
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the tendency to attend more to outcomes rather than the process that produced the outcomes is referred to as__________________.
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static thinking
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According to Piaget, which of the following does NOT reflect preoperational thought>
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logical thought
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Metacognition refers to_______.
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the awareness of memory and the monitoring of memory performance.
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____________ reflects to tendency to infer that if two events that occur together must be casually related illustrates: _________.
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Transductive reasoning
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Follow up research indicates that shcool age childrens capactiy for proopositional thought is limited because the fail to grasp the concept of _________.
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logical necessity
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horizontal decalage
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is the gradual mastery of logical concepts (example given transitive inference) during a Piagetian Stage
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The ability to pass conservation tasks provides evidence of _________.
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decentration
an example is by recognizing that a change in one aspect of the water (its height) is compensated for by a change in another aspect (its wideth) |
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formal operation thinking differs from concrete operational thinking in that concrete operational thinking is NOT
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ABSTRACT
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__________ permits cognition to be far more efficient during the preoperational stage compared to the sensorimotor stage.
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Detaching thought from action
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Preoperational reasoning often seems distorted and incorrect because cthinking during this stage is___________.
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strongly influenced by the way things apear
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turn taking, game pllaying, and devising contests are all examples of _________.
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cooperative play
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In __________, two or more children interact with one another by sharing or borrowing toys.
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Associative play
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Piaget suggested that moral development proceeds in stages beginning with ________.
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heteronomous morality
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Beginning at age 10, children become fully aware that formal game rules can be modified if the people who play them agree. This is known as __________ and transitions into more sophisticated forms of moral development.
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autonomous cooperation stage
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The observation of non aggressive models of aggression, can reduce aggression. _______ to aggression are useful in pointing out a means to reduce aggression
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Cognitive approaches
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by the time children are 4, they are engaging in __________ play.
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constructive
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Passive forms of play>
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Parallel and onlooker wherein children are not interacting with one another
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initial versus guilt stage
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lasts from age 3 until 6
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Freud argued through his psychoanalytic perspective that ________ exists because boys and girls identify with their same sex parent and subsequently adopt their parents attitudes and values.
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gender identity
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