Deck 8: Affective Social-Emotional Understanding and Aesthetic Development: Art and Creative Dramatics Activities

Question 1

Activities offered to encourage social-emotional understanding can also:

A) build the children's knowledge, concepts, and pride of their own family identity.
B) foster positive views about our multicultural and multilingual society.
C) respond to the diversity of the children's cultures and languages.
D) all of the above

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Terms used in completion questions:
aesthetics
affective development
art
creative dramatics
dramatic play
emotional development
guided drama
possible outcomes
social understanding
sociodramatics
__________ is curriculum area encouraging relaxation, exploration, and aesthetic pleasure with varied experiences ranging from art appreciation to painting and molding.

Answer 2

Art

Question 3

The experiences that strengthen connections and relationships:

A) allow children to appreciate the differences and similarities among other children, adults, and families.
B) focus on movement activities because young children in early care learning programs are not quite ready for discussions about relationships.
C) offer conversations about families but not diversity.
D) require approval of the board of education because of the sensitive topics.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Terms used in completion questions:
aesthetics
affective development
art
creative dramatics
dramatic play
emotional development
guided drama
possible outcomes
social understanding
sociodramatics
Pantomime or acting out of a poem, short story, or rhyme is __________.

Question 5

Terms used in completion questions:
aesthetics
affective development
art
creative dramatics
dramatic play
emotional development
guided drama
possible outcomes
social understanding
sociodramatics
__________ is adapted as a general term to organize four categories of activities that contribute to affective and aesthetic development of young children: dramatic play, guided drama, puppetry, and sociodramatics.

Question 6

Terms used in completion questions:
aesthetics
affective development
art
creative dramatics
dramatic play
emotional development
guided drama
possible outcomes
social understanding
sociodramatics
Appropriately planned activities help children develop self-awareness and skills to react and interact positively with others, which is called __________.

Question 7

Social understanding topics and activities for young children:

A) tend to be so sensitive that teachers rarely include them in the curriculum.
B) avoid discussion about gender roles.
C) might discuss the illness of a family member.
D) none of the above

Question 8

Aesthetic development with art is valuable because:

A) appropriate art activities encourage relaxation, exploration, and pleasure.
B) children benefit when activities are soothing.
C) concepts in other curriculum areas develop while children enjoy aesthetic activities.
D) all of the above

Question 9

Affective development with social understanding may offer children opportunities to:

A) understand themselves, their families, and their communities.
B) acquire prosocial skills.
C) become responsible and caring citizens.
D) all of the above

Question 10

Creative dramatics in early childhood programs:

A) includes two categories, dramatic play and sociodramatics.
B) consistently refers to pretending, imagining, and playing.
C) offers young children experiences only in the area of dramatic play.
D) rarely provides young children with opportunities to develop skills besides play behaviors.

Question 11

Terms used in completion questions:
aesthetics
affective development
art
creative dramatics
dramatic play
emotional development
guided drama
possible outcomes
social understanding
sociodramatics
__________ is the growth and expression of feelings, self-worth, and preferences influenced by heredity, culture, language, region, and era.

Question 12

Early care and learning programs are generally the first group situation outside the family and home and allow children:

A) to function best in large groups.
B) to interact in environments different from their own communities.
C) to gain a sense of community.
D) to develop skills whenever they arrive with abilities to cooperate.

Question 13

Aesthetics:

A) is an essential part of the early childhood curriculum.
B) provide children with chances to discover nature, beauty, and art.
C) is particularly important for young children because it involves their thinking abilities and not their senses.
D) is most valuable during teacher-guided activities because it is the only time children develop a sense of wonder.

Question 14

Appreciation of art:

A) limits experiences to art materials in programs for young children.
B) offers school-age children an understanding of design; a topic that is not appropriate for early childhood curriculum.
C) extends children's experiences to see beauty in nature, their communities, and within their cultures.
D) may not include an activity about ancient art work, a topic beyond preschool's cognitive understanding.

Question 15

Affective (social-emotional understanding) and aesthetic developmental area include the curriculum areas of:

A) art, creative dramatics, and music.
B) art, creative dramatics, and social understanding.
C) art, social understanding, and puppetry.
D) art, creative dramatics, and music and rhythm.

Question 16

Terms used in completion questions:
aesthetics
affective development
art
creative dramatics
dramatic play
emotional development
guided drama
possible outcomes
social understanding
sociodramatics
When children voluntarily engage in activity by pretending to be someone or something, while acquiring negotiation skills during interaction they are engaging in __________.

Question 17

Terms used in completion questions:
aesthetics
affective development
art
creative dramatics
dramatic play
emotional development
guided drama
possible outcomes
social understanding
sociodramatics
Voluntarily observing, participating, and playing in creative activity using imaginary objects and imitating people and surroundings is __________.

Question 18

Terms used in completion questions:
aesthetics
affective development
art
creative dramatics
dramatic play
emotional development
guided drama
possible outcomes
social understanding
sociodramatics
Growth and changes in young children's social and emotional behaviors is referred to as __________.

Question 19

Terms used in completion questions:
aesthetics
affective development
art
creative dramatics
dramatic play
emotional development
guided drama
possible outcomes
social understanding
sociodramatics
__________ is the developing awareness and responsiveness to beauty in nature and surroundings.

Question 20

Terms used in completion questions:
aesthetics
affective development
art
creative dramatics
dramatic play
emotional development
guided drama
possible outcomes
social understanding
sociodramatics
__________ is the description of the behavior that a child may be expected to achieve after participating in the specific activity; includes concepts, skills, and vocabulary as Curriculum Activity Guide elements.

Question 21

Social understanding topics and activities allow children to develop collaborative behaviors. Describe how you will encourage collaborative behaviors.