FCS 324 Ch 8 Practice Test PDF

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Chapter 8: Play and Intellectual Development

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According to Vygotsky (1978), the value of play materials is that they d. help children to separate themselves from concrete reality.

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Miniature life toys, such as cars and trucks, dolls, and toy buildings fit into the category of _________ toys. c. microsymbolic

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Play materials such as paint and clay fit into the category of _______ toys. a. fluid construction

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The realization that many individual parts can be put together to make a whole is referred to as e. unit iteration.

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In order to understand how many blocks arranged in a lengthwise fashion will correspond to another group of blocks laid widthwise, a child needs an understanding of a. equivalency.

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Spatial visualization is the ability to b. imagine how a two- or three-dimensional shape would look if rotated in space.

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It is not until the age of ______________ that a mature understanding of spatial concepts is acquired. c. seven or eight

8.

Graphic collections refer to the b.

sorting strategies of preschool children.

9.

Four-year-old Brian is asked to sort blocks of different shapes, and so he arranges them in a circle and says "I made a necklace", illustrating b. a graphic collection.

10.

When a preschooler believes that the amount of liquid in a tall thin glass actually changes when the liquid is poured into a short wide bowl, we conclude that the child cannot d. conserve.

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Which of the following types of knowledge was probably encoded by enactive representation? a. riding a bicycle or tying a knot in a necktie

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One of the major intellectual contributions of water play is that children can enhance their ability to use principles of . d. measurement. Children are more likely to consider dance to be play and to enjoy the experience if d.

the teacher uses an open-ended approach.

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The concept of emergent literacy means that a. children start to become literate long before they are actually able to read and write.

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Children seem to derive more meaning from stories that are read to them if e. they are given the opportunity to act out scenes from the stories.

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Convergent thinking d. can be improved by play during the preschool years.

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The ability to branch out from a starting point and consider a variety of possible solutions to a problem is known as e. divergent thinking.

18.

Creative children display a number of characteristics. Which of the following is not one of those characteristics? e. A high level of intelligence.

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Divergent problem-solving is a key element in successful performance on . c. tests of creativity.

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Which of the following play materials would be most likely to require a child to engage in convergent thing? b. picture puzzles

True or False 1.

True. Subdivision is the ability to separate distances mentally into smaller segments.

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False. The experience of putting one’s blocks away after playing with them can offer opportunities to develop conservation ability.

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True. Enactive representation occurs when a person encodes information about the world in physical movement instead of or as well as mentally. False. Children taught to dance with an imitative approach seem to enjoy dancing more than children taught with an open-ended approach.

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True. It is no longer widely accepted that the acquisition of reading and writing are specific events that occur when a child had reached an appropriate level of readiness.

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True. Babbling can be thought of as a form of infant play.

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True. Creative children are more likely to have a well-developed sense of humor.

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False. Divergent problem solving has been related to performance on conventional intelligence and classroom tests.

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True The link between fantasy play and divergent thinking can be found in the concept of decentration.

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False. Divergent thinking is involved in creativity but convergent thinking is not.

Short Answer 1.

Preschool children often fail to use logic when they classify and instead rely only on _________.

2.

Playing with blocks has been found to develop the spatial skills of spatial visualization and _______ _______, both of which are necessary for understanding mathematical concepts.

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__________ is the recognition that space can be divided into different-size units and that a certain number of units of one size correspond to a different number of units of another.

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A _________ spatial concept allows a child to think of space as an overall network, independent of the number or the arrangement of elements within it.

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According to Piaget, the child’s earliest concepts are consistent action patterns, which he referred to as __________.

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Both literacy and make-believe play involve __________ language, meaning that the words used often refer to objects not immediately present.

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The most widely held view today of the development of reading and writing is known as the concept of ________ _________.

8.

Creativity is a personality characteristic, an ____________ process, and it results in a creative product.

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Single-solution problems require the ability to engage in what is known as __________ problem solving.

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The relationship between play and divergent thinking is both complex and ____________. 3

Short Answer 1.

perception

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mental rotation

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Equivalency

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Euclidean

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schemes

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decontextualized

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emergent literacy

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intellectual

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convergent

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reciprocal

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