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(True or False)
Physical growth decreases from ages 3 to 6. |
False
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(True or False)
Girls are larger than boys throughout childhood. |
False
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(True or False)
preschool-school children eat less than in infancy and toddler hood for their weight, but the prevalence of obesity has increased. |
True
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(True or False)
Sleep patterns are affected by cultural expectations. |
True
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(True or False)
Sleep terrors tend to occur within an hour after falling asleep. |
True
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(True or False)
Enuresis (Bed wetting) is common and is usually outgrown without special help. |
True
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(True or False)
Handedness reflects dominance by one hemisphere of the brain. |
True
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(True or False)
Stages of art production appear to reflect personality rather than brain development. |
False
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(True or False)
Accidents are the leading cause of death in childhood in the United States. |
True
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(True or False)
Preventable disease is no longer a problem in the developing world. |
False
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(True or False)
most fatal non vehicular accidents occur at home. |
True
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(True or False)
Minor illnesses help build immunity to disease. |
True
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(True or False)
Environmental factors, such as exposure to stress, have no effect on the rash of illness or injury. |
False
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(True or False)
Children in the preoperational stage of cognition development always show maturity of thought. |
False
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(True or False)
The symbolic function enables children to reflect on people, objects, and events only when they are present. |
False
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(True or False)
Preoperational children can understand the concept of identity. |
True
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(True or False)
Concentration, or the inability to decenter, prevents preoperational children from understanding principles of conservation. |
True
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(True or False)
The theory of mind occurs after age 12. |
False
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(True or False)
Preoperational children are capable of empathy. |
True
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(True or False)
Preoperational children often focus on states rather than transformations. |
True
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(True or False)
Children become less competent in pragmatics as they engage in social speech. |
False
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(True or False)
Interaction with adults can promote emergent literacy. |
True
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(True or False)
At all ages, recall is better than recognition. |
False
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(True or False)
Autobiographical memory is linked with the development of language. |
True
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(True or False)
Children are less likely to remember unusual activities that they actually participate in. |
False
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Homeless families are usually headed by whom?
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Single Mothers
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Many poor children do not get the medical care they need because of what reason?
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They are uninsured
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Facts about homeless pre-schoolers.
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3 times greater to not have immunizations, suffer more health problems, and have high rates of tooth decay, diarrhea, or hunger
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Advances in preoperational thought includes what?
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A growing understanding of identities
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Marie is demonstrating what when she lists students who are mean and which are nice.
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Ability to classify
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Jeffrey cries when his father gives him a broken half of a cookie because its less than a whole cookie. He is demonstrating what?
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Centration
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Marie thinks clouds are alive because they move. She is demonstrating what?
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Animism
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The absence of sensory or motor cues, such as Wang Yani's paintings from memory, is know as what?
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The Symbolic Function
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The awareness of having experienced a particular incident that occured at a specific time and place is known as what?
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Episodic Memory
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Autobiographical memory and the decline of childhood amnesia may be linked to what?
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Development of Language
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The development of skills, knowledge, and attitudes that underlie reading and writing is known as what?
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Emergent Literacy
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_____ memory begins at about the age of 2 and produces a script.
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Generic
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Private speech is what?
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Normal and common in childhood
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The process of "fast Mapping" allows children to do what?
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Increase their vocabulary rapidly
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Children use imaginary companions for what?
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Provide support, provide wish fulfillment situations, and to be scapegoats.
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A boy's imaginary companion is most usually a what?
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An Animal
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Who is most likely to have an imaginary companion?
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Girls
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The existence of imaginary companions in children from ages 3 to 10 is what?
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Normal
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This is one thing that preoperational children can NOT do.
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Distinguish between reality and fantasy
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The Symbolic Function is shown in what?
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Pretend play
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The environmental influences that increase a child's risk of illness and injury include what?
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Homelessness, smoking, and poverty
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This remains a major problem in the developing world.
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Preventable Diseases
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Handedness is usually evident by age what?
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3
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What does the fourth edition of the Stanford-Binet IQ test provide?
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Assessment of patterns and levels of cognition development
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