PSYC 140 DEVELOPMENTAL (Lifespan) PSYCHOLOGY
Module 4 Exam - PORTAGE
gross motor skills in early childhood - Answer ✔✔ - throwing a ball, hopping, catching a
ball, running, and kicking a ball
fine motor skills in early childhood - Answer ✔✔ - cutting paper, pasting, pouring,
building blocks, lacing, cutting along a line, writing a name, tracing, coloring
2-3 years gross & fine motor skills - Answer ✔✔ - gross: jump, throw/catch ball
fine: zip/unzip, use a spoon
3-4 years gross & fine motor skills - Answer ✔✔ - gross: walk upstairs alternating both
feet, walk downstairs one foot leading, throw/catch ball
fine: scissors, button
4-5 years gross & fine motor skills - Answer ✔✔ - gross: walk upstairs and downstairs
alternating feet, catch ball with hands
fine: use a fork, cut on a line with scissors
5-6 years gross & fine motor skills - Answer ✔✔ - gross: skip, ride a bike
fine: tie shoes, write numbers & basic words
, brain development in early childhood - Answer ✔✔ - further development of neurons at
synapses, myelination, synaptic pruning
preoperational stage - Answer ✔✔ - in Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 6 or 7
years of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the
mental operations of concrete logic
substages of preoperational stage - Answer ✔✔ - symbolic function and intuitive thought
symbolic function substage - Answer ✔✔ - (ages 2-4( Child continues to develop the
ability to mentally represent an object that is not present, working towards abstract
thought but not there yet
At the beginning of the preoperational stage, how do children often play? - Answer ✔✔ -
parallel play (in same room as other children but play next to them rather than with them)
What is the main function of a child's speech during the preoperational stage? - Answer
✔✔ - to externalize the child's thinking rather than to communicate with others.
egocentrism - Answer ✔✔ - the preoperational child's difficulty of taking another's point
of view
animism - Answer ✔✔ - a child's belief that inanimate objects can have human-like
qualities such as feelings
intuitive thought - Answer ✔✔ - (ages 4-7) children start to develop reasoning ability to
help fulfill the desire to answer questions
Module 4 Exam - PORTAGE
gross motor skills in early childhood - Answer ✔✔ - throwing a ball, hopping, catching a
ball, running, and kicking a ball
fine motor skills in early childhood - Answer ✔✔ - cutting paper, pasting, pouring,
building blocks, lacing, cutting along a line, writing a name, tracing, coloring
2-3 years gross & fine motor skills - Answer ✔✔ - gross: jump, throw/catch ball
fine: zip/unzip, use a spoon
3-4 years gross & fine motor skills - Answer ✔✔ - gross: walk upstairs alternating both
feet, walk downstairs one foot leading, throw/catch ball
fine: scissors, button
4-5 years gross & fine motor skills - Answer ✔✔ - gross: walk upstairs and downstairs
alternating feet, catch ball with hands
fine: use a fork, cut on a line with scissors
5-6 years gross & fine motor skills - Answer ✔✔ - gross: skip, ride a bike
fine: tie shoes, write numbers & basic words
, brain development in early childhood - Answer ✔✔ - further development of neurons at
synapses, myelination, synaptic pruning
preoperational stage - Answer ✔✔ - in Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 6 or 7
years of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the
mental operations of concrete logic
substages of preoperational stage - Answer ✔✔ - symbolic function and intuitive thought
symbolic function substage - Answer ✔✔ - (ages 2-4( Child continues to develop the
ability to mentally represent an object that is not present, working towards abstract
thought but not there yet
At the beginning of the preoperational stage, how do children often play? - Answer ✔✔ -
parallel play (in same room as other children but play next to them rather than with them)
What is the main function of a child's speech during the preoperational stage? - Answer
✔✔ - to externalize the child's thinking rather than to communicate with others.
egocentrism - Answer ✔✔ - the preoperational child's difficulty of taking another's point
of view
animism - Answer ✔✔ - a child's belief that inanimate objects can have human-like
qualities such as feelings
intuitive thought - Answer ✔✔ - (ages 4-7) children start to develop reasoning ability to
help fulfill the desire to answer questions
