DCF - CHILD GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
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CORRECT ANSWERS
What do these conflicts mean to child care professionals? - --
-Answers---create relationships with children that are built
on trust, allow children to exercise autonomy, promote
creativity
What are Jean Piaget's Four Stages of Cognitive Development?
- ---Answers---1. Sensorimotor 0-2: learning through
sensory perception and motor skills
2. Preoperational 2-7: uses symbols, bound by what they
experience directly and not by what they think
3. Concrete-Operational 7-11: rational thinking
4. Formal Operations 11 +: final stages of cognitive
development, abstract thinking, think beyond present.
What do these stages mean to child care professionals? - ---
Answers---it helps caregivers to understand why children
make thinking mistakes, help in planning developmentally
appropriate practices
Lev Vygotsky's Theory of Cognitive Development - ---
Answers---social and cultural interactions are the primary
sources of learning and behavior, along with problem solving
experiences through scaffolding to perform tasks in the zone
of proximal learning.
, Scaffolding - ---Answers---when the person interacting with
the child assumes more responsibility for guiding learning, as
child learns more responsibility is given to them.
Zone of Proximal Learning - ---Answers---the zone where
learning occurs, when a child is learning material with adult
guidance or with peer collaboration.
What are Vygotsky's 4 strategies for success? - ---Answers--
-1. generating a question for understanding
2. Clarifying what they are reading or understanding
3. stopping to predict clues about what they think might
happen in the learning material
4. summarizing what they have learned.
What does this theory mean to child care professionals? - ---
Answers---we can develop learning environments where
children play an active role in their own education, with peer
and adult collaboration
What did Maria Montessori theorize about child centered
learning environments? - ---Answers---children should learn
in a typical and natural environment. The environment should
be orderly and beautiful, furnishings should be child-sized,
accessible and in good working condition
What is John Bowlby's attachment theory? - ---Answers---in
order to become well-adjusted adults, infants need attentive
(20205/2026)UPDATE QUESTIONS AND 100% VERIFIED
CORRECT ANSWERS
What do these conflicts mean to child care professionals? - --
-Answers---create relationships with children that are built
on trust, allow children to exercise autonomy, promote
creativity
What are Jean Piaget's Four Stages of Cognitive Development?
- ---Answers---1. Sensorimotor 0-2: learning through
sensory perception and motor skills
2. Preoperational 2-7: uses symbols, bound by what they
experience directly and not by what they think
3. Concrete-Operational 7-11: rational thinking
4. Formal Operations 11 +: final stages of cognitive
development, abstract thinking, think beyond present.
What do these stages mean to child care professionals? - ---
Answers---it helps caregivers to understand why children
make thinking mistakes, help in planning developmentally
appropriate practices
Lev Vygotsky's Theory of Cognitive Development - ---
Answers---social and cultural interactions are the primary
sources of learning and behavior, along with problem solving
experiences through scaffolding to perform tasks in the zone
of proximal learning.
, Scaffolding - ---Answers---when the person interacting with
the child assumes more responsibility for guiding learning, as
child learns more responsibility is given to them.
Zone of Proximal Learning - ---Answers---the zone where
learning occurs, when a child is learning material with adult
guidance or with peer collaboration.
What are Vygotsky's 4 strategies for success? - ---Answers--
-1. generating a question for understanding
2. Clarifying what they are reading or understanding
3. stopping to predict clues about what they think might
happen in the learning material
4. summarizing what they have learned.
What does this theory mean to child care professionals? - ---
Answers---we can develop learning environments where
children play an active role in their own education, with peer
and adult collaboration
What did Maria Montessori theorize about child centered
learning environments? - ---Answers---children should learn
in a typical and natural environment. The environment should
be orderly and beautiful, furnishings should be child-sized,
accessible and in good working condition
What is John Bowlby's attachment theory? - ---Answers---in
order to become well-adjusted adults, infants need attentive
