Child Learner Chapter 5 Test Questions & Answers

Chapter 05 The Child Learner: Test Bank

Client Education: Theory and Practice, 3^rd edition

Mary A. Miller and Pamella Rae Stoeckel

Directions: Circle the letter corresponding to the one best answer.

1. A developmental task is defined as:

a. children are influenced by genetics

b. an approach to working with families and communities to help children

c. a skill that educators learn to be effective in teaching children

d. set of skills and competencies that are peculiar to each developmental stage

2. Psychosocial development stages refer to:

a. stages that describe how children learn

b. stages that focus on how children socialize

c. stages of the family when a child is ill

d. stages that end once an illness has ended

3. The presence of reflexes in a child indicates:

1. A delay in brain development
2. The need for physical therapy and motor assistance
3. Normal brain and nerve development
4. The need for special education training

4. Erickson’s Stage of Trust versus involves:

a. the child gaining confidence and feeling secure

b. the need for more attention by the mother

c. providing more stimulation to build a better relationship

d. the mother’s need to feel trust from the child

5. Separation anxiety in the child is:

1. A rare and problematic behavior by children in foster care
2. Lack of response by a child when they are angry
3. Seen only when children are separated from their parent for a least a week
4. An attachment behavior characterized by crying when the caregiver leaves

6. Piaget’s preoperational stage of cognitive development is characterized by:

1. Egocentrism
2. Autonomy versus shame and doubt
3. Transductive reasoning
4. Ireversibility

7. School age children gain the ability to accommodate which means:

1. They become easier to manage
2. They use magical thinking
3. They are able to begin to think abstractly and modify schema
4. They are able to be flexible and quickly perform a task they have not done before

8. The purpose of medical play is:

1. To train children to appreciate health care providers
2. To let children pretend they are nurses and doctors
3. To provide the opportunity for children to get used to procedures they will experience
4. To allow opportunities to deal with the physical and emotional stressors of health care

9. Pedagogy is the defined as:

1. A group of children in a classroom
2. The art and science of teaching children
3. The act of helping children learn about podiatry
4. Helping children to learn independently

10. The term developmental disabilities refer to:

a. Children who have experienced sports injuries

b. Children who are unable to learn

c. Children who are developmentally delayed, medically fragile, intellectually challenged or learning disabled

d.. Children who have been through the medical system and have been labeled as medically indigent.