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1. What is the developmental stage and age range defined as experiencing the
world through senses and actions? - Correct Answer: Piaget's
Sensorimotor, Birth to 2 years
2. What is the developmental stage and age range defined as representing
things with words and images? - Correct Answer: Piaget's
Preoperational, 2 to 6 years old
3. What is the developmental stage and age range defined as thinking logically
about concrete events and grasping concrete analogies? - Correct
Answer: Piaget's Concrete Operational, 7 to 11 years old
4. What is the developmental stage and age range defined as thinking about
hypothetical scenarios and processing abstract thoughts? - Correct
Answer: Piaget's Formal Operational, 12 to adulthood
5. What age range is Piaget's Formal Operational? - Correct Answer: 12 to
adulthood
,6. What age range is Piaget's Concrete Operational? - Correct Answer: 7 to
11 years old
7. What age range is Piaget's Preoperational? - Correct Answer: 2 to 6
years old
8. What age range is Piaget's Sensorimotor? - Correct Answer: Birth to 2
years old
9. Describe independent play - Correct Answer: Common in ages 2-3
They are uninterested in or is unaware of what others are doing.
They are playing alone and maintains focus on its activity.
10.What stage of play is defined by playing alone and uninterested in or
unaware of what others are doing? - Correct Answer: Independent play
11.Describe Parallel Play - Correct Answer: Children play adjacent to each
other, but don't influence each other's play.
They are interested in what other children are playing, but plays alone.
Ages 2-3, but can start after 1st birthday
12.What stage of play is defined as interested in another's activity but playing
along side them without influencing or interacting with them? - Correct
Answer: Parallel play
,13.What differentiates Parallel play vs Associative play? - Correct Answer:
Interaction. There is interaction with associative play, not with Parallel play.
In Associative, there is interest but no coordinated activity.
14.What type of head trauma is typically associated with vacuum deliveries? -
Correct Answer: Subgaleal hemorrhage - ruptured emissary vein caused
by fragmentation of the parietal bone associated with skull fracture. Can
extend to the neck and orbits. May have crepitus, fluid waves and ill-
defined borders
15.A quad screen expected result for a child with down syndrome would read?
- Correct Answer: Low levels of AFP
16.What AFP level would you expect in a child with esophageal atresia? -
Correct Answer: High
17.An 8 month old infant presents with significant head lag, what are you
suspicious of? - Correct Answer: Cerebral Palsy
18.When is an infant expected to double it's birth weight by? - Correct
Answer: 5 months?
19.When is an infant expected to triple it's birth weight by? - Correct
Answer: 1 year
, 20.Pregnant Greeks and pregnant woman living in higher elevations should
have their newborns followed for? - Correct Answer: higher risk of
hyperbilirubinemia
21.An indirect bili measures conjugated or unconjugated bili? - Correct
Answer: unconjugated
22.An infant presents with elevated total bili, what should you suspect? -
Correct Answer: biliary atresia
23.An infant assessment finds a cephalohematoma on exam, what should you
monitor the child for? - Correct Answer: hyperbilirubinemia
24.Which patient population has highest risk for hyperbilirubinemia? Asians,
African Americans, Greeks? - Correct Answer: Asians and American
indians have highest risk. African americans with G6PD deficiency are at
greater risk, as is Greeks and people who live in higher elevations.
25.A pregnant mother positive HIV presents to the hospital in labor, intact
membranes at 38 weeks with an unknown viral load. She has had 3 ARV.
What is the treatment plan? - Correct Answer: Patient with a viral load
or unknown viral load, despite receiving 3 ARV, should have a c-section.
26.What recurrent infection is commonly associated with HIV? - Correct
Answer: oral thrush
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1. What is the developmental stage and age range defined as experiencing the
world through senses and actions? - Correct Answer: Piaget's
Sensorimotor, Birth to 2 years
2. What is the developmental stage and age range defined as representing
things with words and images? - Correct Answer: Piaget's
Preoperational, 2 to 6 years old
3. What is the developmental stage and age range defined as thinking logically
about concrete events and grasping concrete analogies? - Correct
Answer: Piaget's Concrete Operational, 7 to 11 years old
4. What is the developmental stage and age range defined as thinking about
hypothetical scenarios and processing abstract thoughts? - Correct
Answer: Piaget's Formal Operational, 12 to adulthood
5. What age range is Piaget's Formal Operational? - Correct Answer: 12 to
adulthood
,6. What age range is Piaget's Concrete Operational? - Correct Answer: 7 to
11 years old
7. What age range is Piaget's Preoperational? - Correct Answer: 2 to 6
years old
8. What age range is Piaget's Sensorimotor? - Correct Answer: Birth to 2
years old
9. Describe independent play - Correct Answer: Common in ages 2-3
They are uninterested in or is unaware of what others are doing.
They are playing alone and maintains focus on its activity.
10.What stage of play is defined by playing alone and uninterested in or
unaware of what others are doing? - Correct Answer: Independent play
11.Describe Parallel Play - Correct Answer: Children play adjacent to each
other, but don't influence each other's play.
They are interested in what other children are playing, but plays alone.
Ages 2-3, but can start after 1st birthday
12.What stage of play is defined as interested in another's activity but playing
along side them without influencing or interacting with them? - Correct
Answer: Parallel play
,13.What differentiates Parallel play vs Associative play? - Correct Answer:
Interaction. There is interaction with associative play, not with Parallel play.
In Associative, there is interest but no coordinated activity.
14.What type of head trauma is typically associated with vacuum deliveries? -
Correct Answer: Subgaleal hemorrhage - ruptured emissary vein caused
by fragmentation of the parietal bone associated with skull fracture. Can
extend to the neck and orbits. May have crepitus, fluid waves and ill-
defined borders
15.A quad screen expected result for a child with down syndrome would read?
- Correct Answer: Low levels of AFP
16.What AFP level would you expect in a child with esophageal atresia? -
Correct Answer: High
17.An 8 month old infant presents with significant head lag, what are you
suspicious of? - Correct Answer: Cerebral Palsy
18.When is an infant expected to double it's birth weight by? - Correct
Answer: 5 months?
19.When is an infant expected to triple it's birth weight by? - Correct
Answer: 1 year
, 20.Pregnant Greeks and pregnant woman living in higher elevations should
have their newborns followed for? - Correct Answer: higher risk of
hyperbilirubinemia
21.An indirect bili measures conjugated or unconjugated bili? - Correct
Answer: unconjugated
22.An infant presents with elevated total bili, what should you suspect? -
Correct Answer: biliary atresia
23.An infant assessment finds a cephalohematoma on exam, what should you
monitor the child for? - Correct Answer: hyperbilirubinemia
24.Which patient population has highest risk for hyperbilirubinemia? Asians,
African Americans, Greeks? - Correct Answer: Asians and American
indians have highest risk. African americans with G6PD deficiency are at
greater risk, as is Greeks and people who live in higher elevations.
25.A pregnant mother positive HIV presents to the hospital in labor, intact
membranes at 38 weeks with an unknown viral load. She has had 3 ARV.
What is the treatment plan? - Correct Answer: Patient with a viral load
or unknown viral load, despite receiving 3 ARV, should have a c-section.
26.What recurrent infection is commonly associated with HIV? - Correct
Answer: oral thrush
