TEST BANK FOR EARLY
CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES IN
LANGUAGE ARTS EARLY
LITERACY, 11TH EDITION,
JEANNE M. MACHADO
,True / False
1. Many mothers notice a definite fetal response to environmental sounds during the third trimester of pregnancy.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
2. It is believed that babies are able to hear maternal speech sounds before birth.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
3. It is important that parents believe their babies may try to imitate parent actions or sounds as early as the second or third
month of age.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
4. By age seven to twelve months, infants usually respond to their own name.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
5. By the age of six months, infants react to changes in their adult caregivers’ tone of voice.
a. True
b. False
, ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
6. Mothers who know more about what abilities their infants possess at any given age are usually more skilled at
providing interactions and activities that might promote growth.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
7. Allowing babies to explore their environment safely is a necessary condition of good care.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
8. An infant’s emotional well being is usually not observable before its first birthday.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
9. At birth, each infant’s brain has an equal number of neurons and synapses.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
10. The human brain can be accurately described as a flexible, sensitive, and plastic part of the human central nervous
system.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
11. The text recommends that parents provide special, extraordinary experiences to their infants to promote advanced
skills in very early infancy.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES IN
LANGUAGE ARTS EARLY
LITERACY, 11TH EDITION,
JEANNE M. MACHADO
,True / False
1. Many mothers notice a definite fetal response to environmental sounds during the third trimester of pregnancy.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
2. It is believed that babies are able to hear maternal speech sounds before birth.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
3. It is important that parents believe their babies may try to imitate parent actions or sounds as early as the second or third
month of age.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
4. By age seven to twelve months, infants usually respond to their own name.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
5. By the age of six months, infants react to changes in their adult caregivers’ tone of voice.
a. True
b. False
, ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
6. Mothers who know more about what abilities their infants possess at any given age are usually more skilled at
providing interactions and activities that might promote growth.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
7. Allowing babies to explore their environment safely is a necessary condition of good care.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
8. An infant’s emotional well being is usually not observable before its first birthday.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
9. At birth, each infant’s brain has an equal number of neurons and synapses.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
10. The human brain can be accurately described as a flexible, sensitive, and plastic part of the human central nervous
system.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
11. The text recommends that parents provide special, extraordinary experiences to their infants to promote advanced
skills in very early infancy.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
