Question 1

Discuss health and nutrition in early childhood.What are the nutritional needs and patterns of children in early childhood? Explain the role of obesogenic environments in the health of children in this age group.

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Question 2

Using language as a guide to problem solving is called metacognition.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

The article "Unintentional Injuries in Canadian Preschoolers" in the text stated that

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A)   knowledge of home safety rules was directly linked to the incidence of injury.
B)   maintaining close proximity to the child has no effect on the incidence of injury.
C)   even though parents are more likely to expect that boys will be injured, they are less likely to intervene in boys' activities.
D)   girls received more encouragement and direct instructions.

Question 4

The children on Green Street have spent the morning building a tree house from scraps of wood and other building materials acquired from a nearby construction site.This is an example of

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A)   constructive play.
B)   sensorimotor play.
C)   sociodramatic play.
D)   substitute pretend play.

Question 5

What characteristics are associated with children who are more likely to be abused? What characteristics are associated with parents who are more likely to be abusive?

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Question 6

Families that ask questions,rather than give commands,foster higher IQ scores in their children.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Which of the following statements about the stability of children's IQ scores is NOT correct?

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A)   Younger children often seem more intelligent than they are, and IQ scores on later tests typically move down to a more accurate stable level.
B)   Many children show quite wide fluctuations in their IQ scores.
C)   IQ scores can fluctuate as a result of stresses, such as parental divorce, change in schools, or birth of a sibling.
D)   The older the child, the more stable the IQ score.

Question 8

Handedness appears to have a genetic source.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

A child's ability to think about or evaluate the quality of her thinking is

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A)   critical thinking.
B)   conservation.
C)   metacognition.
D)   intelligence.

Question 10

According to Piaget,accomplishment of conservation

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A)   requires the ability to mentally manipulate symbolic external characteristics.
B)   means that a child will not be fooled by an apparent change in volume when water is poured from a short, wide glass into a tall, thin glass.
C)   rarely occurs before age 9.
D)   requires the ability to see the perspective of others.

Question 11

A child's development of a theory of mind may be influenced by all of the following EXCEPT

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A)   sensorimotor play.
B)   language skills.
C)   pretend play that is shared with other children.
D)   discussion of emotion-provoking past events with parents.

Question 12

Developmentalists refer to our inability to remember much about the first three years of life as "dissociative fugue."

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

A child's rate of growth in height and weight is faster during the toddler and preschool years than in infancy.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

What is the grammar explosion? Highlight what happens during this period and discuss what factors might impede a child's language development in early childhood.

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The grammar explosion refers to the peri...

Question 15

Which of the following is accurate information regarding nutrition during the early childhood years?

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A)   Young children eat two thirds as much as adults.
B)   The eating habits of early childhood are linked with weight problems later in life as metabolic rates can vary.
C)   If a child seems to have no appetite, it is important to tempt the child to eat by providing sweets or other preferred food.
D)   Many children don't consume the majority of their daily calories by eating regular meals.

Question 16

Concerning milestones of physical development,a 2-year-old is NOT able to

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A)   run easily.
B)   climb.
C)   pick up small objects.
D)   walk on tiptoe.

Question 17

Researchers who have analyzed IQ scores of adopted twins have found that identical twins are more like one another in IQ than fraternal twins are.They also have found that IQs of adopted children are more strongly correlated with the IQs of their biological parents than with the IQs of their adoptive parents.These research results suggest

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A)   that intelligence has a strong genetic component.
B)   that a child's biological heritage predicts her lifetime patterns of achievement and accomplishment.
C)   that a child's intellectual capacity is fixed at birth.
D)   that environment has no impact upon IQ.

Question 18

Our inability to recall much about the first three years of life is called

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A)   immature hippocampus syndrome.
B)   infantile amnesia.
C)   preverbal amnesia.
D)   unconscious memory formation.

Question 19

Tovah loves playing in the rain.She loves catching raindrops on her tongue,splashing puddles as hard as she can,and stirring mud with a stick.Tovah is engaging in ________ play.

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A)   sensorimotor
B)   gender-role
C)   sociodramatic
D)   constructive

Question 20

Which of the following is a developmental outcome caused by Canada's obesogenic environment?

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A)   Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia are on the rise among children under 10.
B)   Children under 10 are becoming more health conscious and choosing healthy food over fast foods.
C)   Obesity rates have significantly increased among children under 5.
D)   Breast-fed children do not develop obesity.

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