NVCC PSY 230 EXAM 1 ACTUAL TEST
PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
GRADED A+
⩥ Gross motor skills. Answer: refer to large muscles movements, such
as running, climbing, hopping.
⩥ Fine motor skills. Answer: involve small, coordinated movements,
such as drawing faces, and writing one's name.
⩥ What is the progression of motor skills?-. Answer: play does more
than exercise our bodies. It can help prime neural development and is
crucial in promoting social cognition, helping children learn how to get
along w/their peers.
⩥ How do we define and address childhood obesity?-. Answer: we use
BMI- body mass index- the ratio of a person's weight to height. If the
BMI is at or over 85% for the norms in the first poll, a child is
overweight, if at 95% or above the child is obese.
⩥ Preoperational thinking-. Answer: is defined by what children are
missing- the ability to step back from their immediate perceptions.
,⩥ Concrete operational thinking- defined by what children posses:.
Answer: the ability to reason about the world in a more logical, adult-
like way.
⩥ Egocentrism-. Answer: the inability to understand that other people
have different point of view
⩥ Conservation-. Answer: refers to knowing that the amount of a given
substance remains identical despite changes in its shape or form.
⩥ Conservation tasks-. Answer: involve changing the shape of a
substance to see whether children can go beyond the way that substance
visually appears to understand that the amount is still the same.
⩥ Reversibility-. Answer: idea that an operation (procedure) can be
repeated in the opposite direction. The concrete operational child's
knowledge that a specific change in the way a given substance looks can
be reversed.
⩥ Animism-. Answer: the preoperational child's belief that inanimate
objects are alive, especially preschoolers think that dolls have
consciousness too.
⩥ Vygotsky: Social Learning-. Answer: believed that what we do helps
children mentally advance
,⩥ Zone of proximal development-. Answer: is the difference between
what the child can do by himself and his level of potential development
as determined through problem solving under adult guidance/ in
collaboration w/ more capable peers.
⩥ Scaffolding - what is this and what are some ways to do it
effectively?-. Answer: teachers must tailor their instruction to child's
proximal zone. then , as that child becomes more competent, they should
slowly back off and allow the student moe responsibility for directing
that learning activity on his own.
⩥ Inner speech-. Answer: A form of internalized, self-directed dialogue:
talking to oneself in silence. The phrase inner speech was used by
Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky to describe a stage in language
acquisition and the process of thought
⩥ Information-processing theory-. Answer: break cognitive process into
components and divide thinking into steps.
⩥ Working memory-. Answer: the limited- capacity gateway system,
containing all the material that we can keep in awareness at a single
time. The material in this system is either processed for more permanent
storage or lost.
, ⩥ Executive functions-. Answer: any frontal lobe ability that allows us
to inhibit our responses and to plan and direct our thinking.
⩥ Rehearsal-. Answer: learning strategy in which people repeat
information to embed it in memory.
⩥ Selective attention-. Answer: learning strategy in which people
manage their awareness so as to attend only to what is relevant and to
filter out unneeded information.
⩥ What is ADHD and how do we work with children with this
diagnosis?-. Answer: disproportionately affecting boys, characterized by
inattention and hyperactivity at home and at school. The well known
treatment for ADHD is psycho-stimulant medications. Important not to
pressure kids to finish their tasks. Help kids to enhance their working
memory, attention and inhibition. Also, diet enhancement, avoid too
much sugary foods. Children with ADHD learn better in noisy
environment, and it's better to give small reinforcements rather than big
ones. Schools should build more physical activities. Presenting learning
tasks in a gaming format.
⩥ Morphemes-. Answer: the word sounds of language. Forex, the
infant's call the bottle ba. They repeat the sounds that's similar such as
calling their bottle baba.
PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
GRADED A+
⩥ Gross motor skills. Answer: refer to large muscles movements, such
as running, climbing, hopping.
⩥ Fine motor skills. Answer: involve small, coordinated movements,
such as drawing faces, and writing one's name.
⩥ What is the progression of motor skills?-. Answer: play does more
than exercise our bodies. It can help prime neural development and is
crucial in promoting social cognition, helping children learn how to get
along w/their peers.
⩥ How do we define and address childhood obesity?-. Answer: we use
BMI- body mass index- the ratio of a person's weight to height. If the
BMI is at or over 85% for the norms in the first poll, a child is
overweight, if at 95% or above the child is obese.
⩥ Preoperational thinking-. Answer: is defined by what children are
missing- the ability to step back from their immediate perceptions.
,⩥ Concrete operational thinking- defined by what children posses:.
Answer: the ability to reason about the world in a more logical, adult-
like way.
⩥ Egocentrism-. Answer: the inability to understand that other people
have different point of view
⩥ Conservation-. Answer: refers to knowing that the amount of a given
substance remains identical despite changes in its shape or form.
⩥ Conservation tasks-. Answer: involve changing the shape of a
substance to see whether children can go beyond the way that substance
visually appears to understand that the amount is still the same.
⩥ Reversibility-. Answer: idea that an operation (procedure) can be
repeated in the opposite direction. The concrete operational child's
knowledge that a specific change in the way a given substance looks can
be reversed.
⩥ Animism-. Answer: the preoperational child's belief that inanimate
objects are alive, especially preschoolers think that dolls have
consciousness too.
⩥ Vygotsky: Social Learning-. Answer: believed that what we do helps
children mentally advance
,⩥ Zone of proximal development-. Answer: is the difference between
what the child can do by himself and his level of potential development
as determined through problem solving under adult guidance/ in
collaboration w/ more capable peers.
⩥ Scaffolding - what is this and what are some ways to do it
effectively?-. Answer: teachers must tailor their instruction to child's
proximal zone. then , as that child becomes more competent, they should
slowly back off and allow the student moe responsibility for directing
that learning activity on his own.
⩥ Inner speech-. Answer: A form of internalized, self-directed dialogue:
talking to oneself in silence. The phrase inner speech was used by
Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky to describe a stage in language
acquisition and the process of thought
⩥ Information-processing theory-. Answer: break cognitive process into
components and divide thinking into steps.
⩥ Working memory-. Answer: the limited- capacity gateway system,
containing all the material that we can keep in awareness at a single
time. The material in this system is either processed for more permanent
storage or lost.
, ⩥ Executive functions-. Answer: any frontal lobe ability that allows us
to inhibit our responses and to plan and direct our thinking.
⩥ Rehearsal-. Answer: learning strategy in which people repeat
information to embed it in memory.
⩥ Selective attention-. Answer: learning strategy in which people
manage their awareness so as to attend only to what is relevant and to
filter out unneeded information.
⩥ What is ADHD and how do we work with children with this
diagnosis?-. Answer: disproportionately affecting boys, characterized by
inattention and hyperactivity at home and at school. The well known
treatment for ADHD is psycho-stimulant medications. Important not to
pressure kids to finish their tasks. Help kids to enhance their working
memory, attention and inhibition. Also, diet enhancement, avoid too
much sugary foods. Children with ADHD learn better in noisy
environment, and it's better to give small reinforcements rather than big
ones. Schools should build more physical activities. Presenting learning
tasks in a gaming format.
⩥ Morphemes-. Answer: the word sounds of language. Forex, the
infant's call the bottle ba. They repeat the sounds that's similar such as
calling their bottle baba.
