Deck 9: Art and Physical Mental Growth

Question 1

Small muscles in fingers, hands, and wrists are used in art activities such as painting, cutting, pasting, and clay modeling.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

In the preoperational stage, the child begins to carry out mental actions that require forming and using images and symbols.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Motor control plays an important role in lesson planning in the early childhood program.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Visual acuity has a direct effect on a child's learning ability.

Question 5

Visual acuity refers to 20/20 vision.

Question 6

Rapid language growth is characteristic of the preoperational stage.

Question 7

The ability to think flexibly applies mostly to art activities.

Question 8

The third pattern of development is cephalocaudal development.

Question 9

The word "sensorimotor" refers to the use of the senses in art activities.

Question 10

Large to small muscle development is also called gross to fine motor development.

Question 11

A good early childhood program should have a mixture of both small and large motor tools and activities.

Question 12

Infants are born with perfect proportions in their physical body.

Question 13

Growth from head to toe is called cephalocaudal development.

Question 14

Young children learn physically as they do things mentally.

Question 15

Understanding the concept of change is a mental skill developed slowly over time.

Question 16

A child achieves object permanence in the preoperational stage.

Question 17

The child who has trouble reversing actions is in the preoperational stage.

Question 18

The child who moves from reflex action to directed actions toward a goal is in the sensorimotor stage.

Question 19

Hand-eye coordination is directly related to large and small motor development.

Question 20

In the sensorimotor stage according to Piaget, the child can carry out mental actions.

Question 21

Using basic logic that is tied to physical reality is characteristic of the:

A) preoperational stage.
B) sensorimotor stage.
C) concrete operations stage.
D) formal operations stage.

Question 22

In the concrete operations stage, the child develops reversibility.

Question 23

A child in the concrete operations stage:

A) can classify by different categories.
B) begins to carry out mental operations.
C) gains object permanence.
D) moves from reflex action to directed actions.

Question 24

Hand-eye coordination:

A) develops at the same time as proximodental development.
B) is directly related to reading ability.
C) develops at a slower pace than gross to fine motor development.
D) none of the above.

Question 25

Inflexible thinking is characteristic of a child in the sensorimotor stage.

Question 26

Activities involving the sense of touch can:

A) teach reading skills.
B) enhance gross to fine muscle development.
C) teach children many important concepts.
D) none of the above.

Question 27

In the preoperational stage, the child:

A) moves from reflex action to directed actions.
B) has rapid language growth.
C) makes transformations.
D) moves from reflex action to directed actions and has rapid language growth

Question 28

A child that learns object permanence is in the:

A) preoperational stage.
B) sensorimotor stage.
C) formal operations stage.
D) concrete operations stage.

Question 29

According to Piaget, children:

A) learn flexible thinking in guided practice.
B) gradually come to understand about how things can change.
C) gradually develop flexible thinking as visual acuity grows.
D) learn flexible thinking by modeling other children.

Question 30

At birth, the brain has billions of nerve cells called:

A) neurons.
B) brain cells.
C) protons.
D) synapses.

Question 31

In the sensorimotor stage of Piaget's theory, the child:

A) gains object permanence.
B) has rapid language growth.
C) uses symbols for objects.
D) gains object permanence and has rapid language growth.

Question 32

The wiring of the brain:

A) occurs over one's lifetime.
B) takes place very slowly.
C) takes place very quickly.
D) occurs the same in every individual.

Question 33

An example of sensorimotor learning is:

A) modeling with clay.
B) building with blocks.
C) reading a picture book.
D) using the computer.

Question 34

Motor control includes:

A) fine to gross development and proximodistal development.
B) fine to gross development and proximodental development.
C) muscle growth and hand-eye coordination.
D) visual acuity and hand-eye coordination.

Question 35

The ability to reverse actions (make transformations) generally occurs in the:

A) sensorimotor stage.
B) formal operations stage.
C) preoperational stage.
D) concrete operations stage.

Question 36

The three basic directions of growth are

A) fine to gross, cephalocaudal, and proximodental.
B) fine to gross, cephalodental, and promidextal.
C) gross to fine, cephalocaudal, and proximofinial.
D) gross to fine, cephalocaudal, and proximodistal.

Question 37

Characteristics of the formal operations stage are:

A) basic logic and reversible thinking.
B) abstract thinking and hypothesizing.
C) classification and reversibility.
D) all of the above.

Question 38

The ability to classify by different categories is characteristic of the concrete operations stage.

Question 39

The ability to think abstractly and hypothetically is characteristic of the concrete operations stage.

Question 40

The child who is able to use objects to learn and draw conclusions is in the:

A) preoperational stage.
B) concrete operations stage.
C) sensorimotor stage.
D) formal operations stage.

Question 41

What is visual acuity?

Question 42

At what age can you expect children to carry a tune and express rhythm?

Question 43

Why do 3-year-olds generally have trouble using scissors?

Question 44

is the ability to think in the context of change.

Question 45

Give at least three examples of small muscles.

Question 46

Muscle growth and hand-eye coordination fall under the general category of .

Question 47

Why is disproportion in body shape common in the early years of life?

Question 48

Why can you plan obstacle courses and relay runs for children ages 6-10?

Question 49

What is hand-eye coordination?

Question 50

Why is visual acuity important in later school success?

Question 51

The billions of nerve cells in our brain at birth are called .

Question 52

The growth pattern that explains why a child can tumble before doing push-ups is .

Question 53

Match each skill with the age of child most likely able to perform it.
a. Fills and empties containers
b. Runs obstacle courses
c. Begins to be able to carry a tune and express rhythm
d. Has a tremendous drive for physical activity
e. Is able to group items according to similar characteristics
2-year-old

Question 54

is the ability to see and recognize shape and form.

Question 55

What does the term "sensorimotor" refer to?

Question 56

What are the three basic directions of human growth and development?

Question 57

Match each skill with the age of child most likely able to perform it.
a. Fills and empties containers
b. Runs obstacle courses
c. Begins to be able to carry a tune and express rhythm
d. Has a tremendous drive for physical activity
e. Is able to group items according to similar characteristics
3-year-old

Question 58

is the ability to use the hands and eyes at the same time.

Question 59

According to Piaget, the foundation of all mental development takes place in .

Question 60

The number of neurons:

A) is in the billions.
B) changes after birth.
C) is effected by physical development.
D) all of the above.

Question 61

Match each skill with the age of child most likely able to perform it.
a. Fills and empties containers
b. Runs obstacle courses
c. Begins to be able to carry a tune and express rhythm
d. Has a tremendous drive for physical activity
e. Is able to group items according to similar characteristics
6- to 10-year-old

Question 62

Match each skill with the age of child most likely able to perform it.
a. Fills and empties containers
b. Runs obstacle courses
c. Begins to be able to carry a tune and express rhythm
d. Has a tremendous drive for physical activity
e. Is able to group items according to similar characteristics
4-year-old

Question 63

Match each skill with the age of child most likely able to perform it.
a. Fills and empties containers
b. Runs obstacle courses
c. Begins to be able to carry a tune and express rhythm
d. Has a tremendous drive for physical activity
e. Is able to group items according to similar characteristics
5- and 6-year-old