ECA Practice exam Questions 1 – 100
Question and answers already passed
Which of the following is not appropriate way to help a family in crisis?
a. Offering childcare outside work hours at your home
b. Providing contact information for community resources
c. Researching appropriate response to children in similar situations
d. listening to parents views - correct answer ✔a. Offering childcare outside
work hours at your home
To work with different types of families, the early childcare assistant should
maintain a ___________ attitude
a. Diverse
b. Bias
c. Non judgmental
d. Clear - correct answer ✔c. Non judgmental
Which one is the most accurate description of parents of infants with special
needs?
a. They suffer stress and guilt, especially of the causes of the challenging
conditions cannot be clearly identified
b. They suffer stress to blame others for the child's difficulties
c. Their experiences are no different from parents with typically developing
infants, if they have adequate family services - correct answer ✔a. They
,suffer stress and guilt, especially of the causes of the challenging conditions
cannot be clearly identified
When starting your relationship with parents, you should begin by :
a. Reminding them of facility policy and procedures
b. Stating classroom goals
c. Asking them what they want for their child
d. Asking when they will be dropping off and picking up their child - correct
answer ✔c. Asking them what they want for their child
Building trust requires all of the following except :
a. Time
b. Consistency
c. Rules
d. shared understanding - correct answer ✔c. Rules
To assist in conflict resolution, the early childcare professional should
examine his/her own
a. Attitudes
b. Values
c. Beliefs about raising children
d. All of the choices - correct answer ✔d. All of the choices
,Effective communication techniques with parents include all of the following
except
a. Listening attentively
b. Helping parents feel comfortable
c. Acknowledging feeling
d. Asking closed - ended questions - correct answer ✔d. Asking closed -
ended questions
Which parenting style is most likely to help a child make decisions?
a. Authoritarian
b. Authoritative
c. Laissez - faire
d. Demanding - correct answer ✔b. Authoritative
One of the primary roles of families in all culture is :
a. Emphasizing independence
b. Raising children
c. To promote reliance on kinship groups
d. Stressing children's obedience - correct answer ✔b. Raising children
The Term "development" refers to:
a. Stages of physical growth children show as they mature
b. Process of Chemical and neurological changes with aging
, c. Stages through which individuals learn to survive
d. Process by which humans change both qualitatively and quantitatively -
correct answer ✔d. Process by which humans change both qualitatively and
quantitatively
Who introduced the concepts of id, ego, and super ego
a. Sigmund Freud
b. Jean Piaget
c. Urie Bronfenbrenner
d. Eric Erikson - correct answer ✔a. Sigmund Freud
According to Erikson, the stage of emotional development for infants from
birth to 18 months is
a. dependency verses initiative
b. Trust verses mistrust
c. Dependency verses trust
d. initiative verses role confusion - correct answer ✔b. Trust verses mistrust
The best description of attachment is:
a. A process by which parents come to know their infant
b. A tendency to like one adult better than another
c. A process by which babies come to know and form positive relationships
with a small number of significant others
Question and answers already passed
Which of the following is not appropriate way to help a family in crisis?
a. Offering childcare outside work hours at your home
b. Providing contact information for community resources
c. Researching appropriate response to children in similar situations
d. listening to parents views - correct answer ✔a. Offering childcare outside
work hours at your home
To work with different types of families, the early childcare assistant should
maintain a ___________ attitude
a. Diverse
b. Bias
c. Non judgmental
d. Clear - correct answer ✔c. Non judgmental
Which one is the most accurate description of parents of infants with special
needs?
a. They suffer stress and guilt, especially of the causes of the challenging
conditions cannot be clearly identified
b. They suffer stress to blame others for the child's difficulties
c. Their experiences are no different from parents with typically developing
infants, if they have adequate family services - correct answer ✔a. They
,suffer stress and guilt, especially of the causes of the challenging conditions
cannot be clearly identified
When starting your relationship with parents, you should begin by :
a. Reminding them of facility policy and procedures
b. Stating classroom goals
c. Asking them what they want for their child
d. Asking when they will be dropping off and picking up their child - correct
answer ✔c. Asking them what they want for their child
Building trust requires all of the following except :
a. Time
b. Consistency
c. Rules
d. shared understanding - correct answer ✔c. Rules
To assist in conflict resolution, the early childcare professional should
examine his/her own
a. Attitudes
b. Values
c. Beliefs about raising children
d. All of the choices - correct answer ✔d. All of the choices
,Effective communication techniques with parents include all of the following
except
a. Listening attentively
b. Helping parents feel comfortable
c. Acknowledging feeling
d. Asking closed - ended questions - correct answer ✔d. Asking closed -
ended questions
Which parenting style is most likely to help a child make decisions?
a. Authoritarian
b. Authoritative
c. Laissez - faire
d. Demanding - correct answer ✔b. Authoritative
One of the primary roles of families in all culture is :
a. Emphasizing independence
b. Raising children
c. To promote reliance on kinship groups
d. Stressing children's obedience - correct answer ✔b. Raising children
The Term "development" refers to:
a. Stages of physical growth children show as they mature
b. Process of Chemical and neurological changes with aging
, c. Stages through which individuals learn to survive
d. Process by which humans change both qualitatively and quantitatively -
correct answer ✔d. Process by which humans change both qualitatively and
quantitatively
Who introduced the concepts of id, ego, and super ego
a. Sigmund Freud
b. Jean Piaget
c. Urie Bronfenbrenner
d. Eric Erikson - correct answer ✔a. Sigmund Freud
According to Erikson, the stage of emotional development for infants from
birth to 18 months is
a. dependency verses initiative
b. Trust verses mistrust
c. Dependency verses trust
d. initiative verses role confusion - correct answer ✔b. Trust verses mistrust
The best description of attachment is:
a. A process by which parents come to know their infant
b. A tendency to like one adult better than another
c. A process by which babies come to know and form positive relationships
with a small number of significant others
