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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Overextension
B Overregularization
C Underextension
D Underregularization
Question #2
A Guided participation
B Parent involvement
C Child- chosen activity
D Decentration
Question #3
A Child- chosen activities
B Formal training in reading and writing
C Teacher- planned
D Repetition and drill
Question #4
A Demonstrate better social skills
B Are often delayed in social skills
C Participate in more teacher-structured activities
D Have difficulty adjusting to academic tasks once they enter kindergarten
Question #5
A Phonological awareness
B Cardinality
C Ordinality
D Private speech
Question #6
A More; engages in social referencing
B Less; uses words to echo what others say
C Less; establishes joint attention
D More; imitates an adults novel behaviors
Question #7
A Thinking about thought
B Using scripts to tell stories
C Using deliberate mental activités that improve recall
D Using a repetitive communication style
Question #8
A Elaborative
B Repetitive
C Metacognitive
D Episodic
Question #9
A Use of scaffolding
B Gross motor development
C Language development
D Use of scripts
Question #10
A Recognition
B Episodic
C Recall
D Planning
Question #11
A Recognition memory
B Episodic memory
C Recall memory
D Sustained attention
Question #12
A Recall
B Centration
C Planning
D Reversibility
Question #13
A Ignacio’s young children spend most of their time playing with and talking to age mates
B Ignacio instead focuses on preparing his children for academic success and civic Engagement
C Ignacio’s children spend their day in contact with adult work and start to assume mature responsibilities in early childhood
D Ignacio is too busy working and maintaining his household to interact with his children
Question #14
A Outdoor
B Cooperative
C Make-believe
D Parallel
Question #15
A Proximal teaching
B Transitive inference
C Dual representation
D Scaffolding
Question #16
A Realistic props
B Realistic props
C Step-by-step instructions from an adult or older child
D To have a firm understanding of conservation
Question #17
A Telegraphic
B Private
C egocentric
D Inner
Question #18
A Because they are lonely
B Because they are egocentric
C For the pleasure of hearing language
D For self-guidance
Question #19
A Language
B Sensorimotor activity
C Egocentrism
D Self-reflection
Question #20
A Preschoolers rely on faulty logic to solve problems even when given simplified tasks based on familiar experiences
B Piaget was partly right and partly wrong about young children’s cognitive
C When given simplified tasks based on familiar experiences, preschoolers rely on trial and error to solve problems
D When given simplified tasks based on familiar experiences, preschoolers rely on trial and error to solve problems
Question #21
A Adjust the complexity of their answers to fit their children’s maturity
B Should respond with “mechanism” explanations
C Should respond with “prior cause” explanations
D Rarely respond informatively, unless the children are extremely persistent
Question #22
A Rare
B Exaggerated by their love of storytelling
C Almost nonexistent by age 4
D Flexible and appropriate
Question #23
A Centration
B Irreversibility
C Magical thinking
D Dynamic transformation
Question #24
A Inability to mentally go through a series of steps and then reverse direction, returning to the starting point
B Idea that certain physical characteristics of objects remain the same, even when their outward appearance changes
C Believe that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities, such as thoughts, wishes, feelings, and intentions
D Failure to distinguish others symbolic viewpoints from one’s own
Question #25
A Egocentrism
B Dual representation
C Conservation
D Animistic thinking
Question #26
A Irreversibility
B Dual Representation
C Animistic thinking
D Egocentrism
Question #27
A Sasha, who spends more of her time in the reading corner
B Rajesh, who spends more of his time with building blocks
C Tim, who spends more of his time in the art corner
D Kendra, who spends more of her time with sociodramatic play
Question #28
A Use the cup as a chair for her doll
B Use the cup as a hat
C Pretend to drink from the cup
D Pretend that the cup is a rocket
Question #29
A Role playing
B Sensorimotor activity
C Intentional behavior
D Imagination
Question #30
A Sex difference in motor skills are largely due to genetically based differences
B Preschoolers exposed to formal lessons tend to be advanced in gross-motor development
C Parents tend to foster gender stereotyped physical activities in their children
D In early childhood, girls have a slight edge over boy in skills that emphasize force and power
Question #31
A Shy children, outgoing children
B Girls, boys
C Underactive children, overactive children
D Boys, girls
Question #32
A Mentally retarded
B Extremely tall for her age
C Inattentive and unruly
D Strong in spatial relationship skills
Question #33
A Thyroxine
B Growth hormone (GH)
C Thyroid-stimulating hormone
D Estrogen
Question #34
A Aids in balance and control of body movement
B Supports smooth coordination in movements on both sides of the body
C Contributes to dramatic gains in motor coordination
D Plays a vital role in memory and in image of space that helps us find our way
Question #35
A Aids in balance and control of body movement
B Plays a vital role in memory and in image of space that helps us find our way
C Is a large bundle of fibers connecting the two cerebral hemisphere
D Maintains alertness and consciousness
Question #36
A Contribute to artistic ability
B Support social and emotional development
C Support motor coordination and thinking
D Contribute to spatial skills
Question #37
A Left handed people have a strong tendency to have left handed children
B The brains of right-handers then to be less strongly lateralized than those of right-handers
C For right-handed people language is housed in the left hemisphere
D Prenatal events have little to no effect on handedness
Question #38
A Drawing
B Language
C Map reading
D Shape recognition
Question #39
A Pets
B Lead Paint
C Multiple caregivers
D Regular smokers
Question #40
A Thinking
B Difficult
C Growth
D Play