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DCF: Child Growth and Development
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When does the window of oppurtunity for learning language skills begin to close? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Around 5 Years old and greatly deminishes around puberty.
How is growth influenced? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ By the baby's environment and experiences.
A child's heredity are genes that are passed along from the parents. What do they determine? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ The child's brain development
What affect's brain structure? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Early experiences in the environment
What determines how children develop? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Their environment and experiences
What things have an affect on the development of a child's brain and their ability to socialize and grow? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ *How you diaper,feed,and put to sleep.
*The way you great,and the way comfort.
*The amount of space the child had to play in,and the ambient lighting
*The songs you sing
*The toys you provide
*The meals you serve
What are some examples of how these things affect development? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ If your not feeding them properly they wont grow. Greeting allows them to feel like they belong. If they dont have a lot space they won't develop gross motor skills.
Knowledgeable caregivers can do what? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Detect indicators of possible delays,and can help get the child the assistance he needs.
It is important to remember what? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ To NOT diagnose children.
Passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 sent what message? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ That children and adults with disabilities are entitles to the same rights.
What does it mean when the Americans With Disabilities Act states that people with disabilities are entitles to equal rights? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ It means that children with disabilities are legally entitled to equal access to community-based child care settigs.
Is a legal mandate by itself sufficent enough to make realistic and responsive child care options available to children with disabilities? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ No
How would you address a child who is physically challenged? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Leveled surface area and enough space to manuvre.
How would you address a child who is socially challenged(a child who had autism) - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Follow certain schedules,give them heads up on next transition.
How do you address a child who is shy or emotionally challenged? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Set them up with a buddy.
How do you address a who is gifted? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ More challenging activities but dont make them mini teacher.
How do you address a child who is mentally challenged? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Don't hinder them,don't make things to difficult.
What factors have a great influence on the development of children and the decisions child care proffesionals take in planning their learning and care? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Internal and external
Why is nutirition important? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Food gives energy to get through the day and learn and grow.
What are two primary instructional techniques that are based on Piaget's theory? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Discovery learning and supporting the developing interests of children.
Children should be exposed to a wide variety of concrete experiences such as? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ *Use of manipulative field trips and working in groups to help them learn
What did Lev Vygotsky develop? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ He developed the social development theory of learning
What did Lev Vygotsky theorize? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ That social and cultural interaction are the primary sources of learning and behavior.
What were some of Vygotsky's major theory ideas? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ *Children acquire knowledge through culture.
*Children learn through problem solving experiences shared with a knowledgeable abult or peer.
*A child can perform a task under adult guidance or with peer collaboartion that could not be achieved alone. Vygotsky called this the zone of proximal and claimed that learning occured in this zone.
What is scaffolding? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ An instrumental technique where a person interacting with the child assumes more responsibility for guiding the learning. As the child learns,the responsibility is gradually transferred to him.
How can child care professionals use the information from vygotsky's theory? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ *Give them things within in their range of ability
*Pair children up
Where must Learning environments be developed? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Where children play an active role in their own education as well as the educatiom of their peers. The adult collaborates with children in order to create meaing in ways that childrencan make their
complicated.Usually involves a progression along a continous pathway on which the child acquires more refined knowledge,behaviors, and skills.
body - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ We define growth as specific ____ changes and increases in the child's size.
During the first year of an infants life,babies grow how much in length and weight? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ They can grow_10__inches in length and triple their birth weight.
After the first year a baby's growth slows down to how many inches a year? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ They grow 5 inches a year for the next 2 years and continues from age 2 or 3 to puberty at a rate of two to three inches each year.
When do girls enter puberty? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Between 8 to 13 years of age
When do boys usually enter puberty? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ 10 to 15 years of age
How does growth proceed? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ From the head downward and from the center of the body outward.
Children gain control of what first followed by their arms and legs - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Head and neck
At birth what three part's of the body are fully functioning inorder to support the infant? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ The brain,heart,and spinal cord
As children grow which two muscles must develop first before the finger and toe muscles do? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ The arm and leg muscles
Do children differ in growth? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Yes, some children are taller,some shorter. Some children are smaller,while others are larger.
Answer ✔️ ✔️ First build relationship with parent,then share typical growth information with them.
Is the developmental sequence the same for all children? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Yes,but the rate varies
What are some examples of Principle 1-Developmental sequence is similiar for all? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ *Children develop in relatively the same ways.
*They can move forward,regressfor a short time,then move forward again.
*Some children may skip a behavior or skill as they move forward.
*While the sequence is similar and the behaviors or skills emerge in the same order children can take more or less time each behavior or skill.
What are examples of Principle 2-Developmental proceeds from General to Specific. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ *Development progresses from a beginning point moving in a forward direction.
*Development of behaviors and skills moves from general to specific.
*As children mature their bodily changes occur in a sequential order and give children new abilities.
*As the brain and nervous system develops,a child's thinking cognitive skills and motor physical skills improve.
*In motor development,an infant's large muscles develop first and result in the ability to wave the arms and kick the legs.
*Development continues in the smaller muscles in the fingers and toes and results in the abilityof the fingers to grasp objects and the toes to help with balance when standing and walking.
What are examples of Principle 3-Development is continous - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ *In children who develop normally,behaviors and skills they have already acquired become the basis for new behaviors and skills.
*There is continuity from one phase of development to the next.
*Development is never uniform,but it is constant.
What are examples of Principle 5- All areas of development are interrelated - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ *Development in children is interrelated
*Principles 1 through 4 show how the body has to grow and develop before new behaviors and skills can occur.They also demonstrate the first 2 of 6 areas od development,called domains.
What are the 6 Domains of Development - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ *Physical Health
*Motor Development
*Cognitive Development and General Knowledge
*Language and Communication
*Social and Emotional
*Approaches to Learning
What are the characteristics of Physical health and Motor Development Domains? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Involves increased physical growth and abilities.
What are characteristics of Cognitive Development and General Knowledge and Approaches to Learning Domain? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Thinking,planning,creating,exploring,and questioning.
What are the characteristics of Langueage and Communication Domain of Development? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ A child's ability to see,hear,speak,read,and write.
How is Social and Emotional Domain of Development defined? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ By forming relationships and attachments.
How many brain cells do we get at birth and how much wiring is between them? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ 100 billion but their is minimial wiring between them.
What determines which connections are initially formed? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Stimulation and experience
What gets "wired" into the brain? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Stimuli that are encountered early and often,as well as the child's successful responses.
What helps determine the strength and durability of a connection? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Practice and Repitition
What does the saying "use it or lose it" apply to? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Brain development
How are a baby's early repertoire of responses exercised? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ At random
Developmental Windows - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Certain periods of time when children are especially receptive to their surroundings and interactions with other people.These periods of time are tied to
brain developmental milestones. For example,language skills depend on hearing other people speak.
If there is not adequate verbal stimulation in the first years of life what is negatively affected? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Language skills,especially grammar and pronunciation.
Why is promoting social interaction important? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ So they can interact with others
Why are social interaction and the children with disabilities important?
- Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Helps children with and without special needs interact in positive way.
What environmental influences are important for children's growth and development? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Nutrition,exercise levels, daily routines in physical activities and learning and relationships with adults and other children.
