Deck 14: The Creative Arts

Question 1

Reggio Emilia approach to early learning considers art serious work and includes which of these principles?

A)understanding the mass production of replicated art
B)motivating children to produce art
C)allowing for dittos and patterns in the classroom
D)refusing to display art due to privacy

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Novelty refers to

A)an idea or product being new or novel.
B)an idea or product being familiar and well known.
C)not new to humankind.
D)not new to the individual.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Ernest Boyer (1987)stated that three main reasons for including the creative arts as significant parts of the curriculum include all of the following except

A)the arts help children express feelings and ideas that are difficult to share using words.
B)caregivers and teachers can integrate the generally splintered academic world of students through the arts.
C)early learning professionals can separate content area studies through the arts.
D)the arts provide the child with a universal language that is useful in communicating with others.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Art activities for infants and toddlers

A)are inappropriate because of safety issues.
B)might include paper,glue,scissors,crayons,and paint.
C)might include pudding and play dough.
D)Might include straw painting and crayon shavings.

Question 5

According to Fox and Schirrmacher (2012),strong art programs include

A)children using their senses.
B)children making art with diverse media.
C)learning about art,artists,and their styles.
D)the study of aesthetics.
E)all of the above

Question 6

Which of the following is the best example of how an early care and education professional supports those ingredients needed for children to be creative individuals?

A)Janice,an assistant in the 3-year-old class,places bottle caps,empty egg cartons,and scraps of material and yarn in the art area for exploration and use.
B)Matt displays coloring sheets in an after-school program of those children who colored within the lines and used the expected colors for the items in the scene.
C)At art time,Ms.Anna takes out the art material,individual crayon boxes,and one sheet of 8 ½" by 11" construction paper for children in her preschool class to draw pictures of teacher-suggested topics.
D)Franklin,a kindergarten teacher,allows his students an open space,floor,and table in the art center,to use shaving cream and paint to discover color blending.

Question 7

Adults can facilitate creative art experiences by

A)limiting art materials.
B)valuing creativity.
C)making examples to use as models.
D)emphasizing the product rather than the process.

Question 8

All of the following are examples of appropriate musical development except

A)infants repeating repetitive phrases.
B)toddlers enthusiastically responding to certain songs.
C)3-year-olds mastering simple songs.
D)5-year-olds have a maturing sense of pitch,rhythm,and melody.

Question 9

Singing songs with young children

A)should be done only for the fun of the activity.
B)should be avoided during classroom routines.
C)can be used to strengthen conceptual understandings.
D)require strong musical skills of the teacher.

Question 10

In order to emphasize the process of art rather than the product,teachers should:

A)put away all patterns and coloring books
B)avoid art projects that are massively produced
C)allow children the freedom to explore basic materials
D)all of the above

Question 11

Which of the following people wrote about the connection between play and creativity?

A)Bowlby,Vygotsky,and Piaget.
B)Freud and Bruner.
C)Einstein,Elkind,and Feynman.
D)Dewey and Erikson.

Question 12

Which of the following is a common misconception about art?

A)adults should consider art a nonessential element of the curriculum.
B)adults should emphasize the process,not the product of art.
C)adults don't need strong art skills to teach it to young children.
D)adults should ask appropriate questions and guide the art experience.

Question 13

Which of the following is not a stage of children's art?

A)Scribbling and mark-making stage
B)Personal symbol and design stage
C)Attempts at public representation
D)Concrete operational stage

Question 14

All of the following are characteristics of idea or product appropriateness except

A)creative activities when they are acceptable and useful by some set of criteria.
B)when experiences and ideas are not meaningful to the individual or group.
C)when they vary from one culture to the next and between groups of adults.
D)when children's efforts are meaningful to them,they are appropriate.

Question 15

For an idea to be creative it must be

A)easy and known.
B)difficult to understand and artistic.
C)unfamiliar and well known.
D)novel and appropriate.

Question 16

Which of the following is not a characteristic of creative individuals,according to Torrance (1962)?

A)Curiosity,constantly ask meaningful questions and manipulate materials in the environment
B)Flexibility,when one approach to a problem doesn't work,they simply try something else
C)Sensitivity to problems,can sense missing elements and quickly identify problem situations
D)Dependence,comfortable only when working in a group they play with

Question 17

Which of the following is not an element in the early childhood music curriculum?

A)Listening to music
B)Writing sheet music
C)Responding to music through movement
D)Children making music

Question 18

Affective development refers to

A)social skills.
B)emotional development.
C)cognitive growth.
D)cultural understandings.

Question 19

The Task Force on Children's Learning and the Arts (Bruce,1998)suggests creative experiences do all of the following except

A)motivate and engage children in passive learning.
B)stimulate memory.
C)facilitate understanding.
D)enhance symbolic communication.

Question 20

Which of the following is a benefit of music for child development?

A)Children can be distracted by the background music during a language arts block.
B)Children can learn to draw cartoon characters while listening to music.
C)Children increase their perceptual skills when exposed to various types of music.
D)Children attend more music sessions than language arts sessions each week.

Question 21

What four central elements should be included in the early childhood art curriculum?

Question 22

By age 3,most children produce recognizable figures in their artwork.

Question 23

Creative art experiences are usually adult-centered.

Question 24

Coloring books are considered developmentally inappropriate as an example of a creative art activity for young children.What is the problem with this common "art material"?

Question 25

A toddler's scribbling is the foundation for future art activities.

Question 26

Define and describe two of the identified seven key skills associated with creativity as provided by the Center for childhood Creativity.

Question 27

The list of characteristics associated with creative people is short and does not vary from one researcher to the next.

Question 28

Although we can't teach creativity,what can adults do or say to help children be more creative?

Question 29

How can music be used to teach cognitive concepts in an early childhood program?

Question 30

Four-year-olds often show an interest in learning to play a musical instrument.

Question 31

Describe one way in which non-musicians can be successful with musical experiences in the early childhood classroom.

Question 32

Briefly describe Rhoda Kellogg's contribution to children's development in their progress of art.

Question 33

How do you define creativity?

Question 34

Open-ended materials in the early learning classroom is not essential to adding creativity to the environment.

Question 35

One way primary classrooms are attempting to keep art curriculum alive is through art docents.

Question 36

Early care and education professionals need not have performance skills in art to teach it.

Question 37

The concept of creativity is not easily defined.

Question 38

Give one example of a valuable musical activity for infants/toddlers.

Question 39

Children can benefit when adults describe and/or demonstrate appropriate uses for art tools and materials.

Question 40

Your text talks about avoiding models in art projects for young children.What are the problems with doing so? Without using models,what can adults do to help children who are struggling in their use of art materials?

Question 41

What can early childhood professionals do to encourage dramatic play,dance,and theatre art activities?

Question 42

Identify three ways in which music can be introduced to young children.