For a teacher in a developmentally appropriate classroom, only one of the following four statements is acceptable:
a. Demonstrate to a child how to act out being an elephant, then encourage her to copy what you did
b. Serve as a facilitator so that dramatic play remains a child-initiated activity
c. It is best to prohibit children from discussing or acting out what their favorite superhero has done recently on television
d. If a boy in your class insists on playing the mommy in dramatic play, you should gently encourage him to be the daddy instead
Question 2According to Smilansky, the type of learning important for the preparation of real-life situations is:
a. engaging in functional play
b. following the social rules of pretend play
c. planning the manipulation of objects or people
d. answers b and c
Question 3Practice play, according to Piaget, occurs during age:
a. zero to two years
b. two to four years
c. four to seven years
d. seven years and older
Question 4If a toddler has a favorite bath towel that she uses as a doll blanket, a skirt, or a cape, she is exhibiting:
a. one-to-one correspondence
b. object hunger
c. a game with rules
d. spatial relationship
Question 5The stages of social play, such as solitary play, parallel play, associative play, and cooperative play, were researched and introduced to us by:
a. Jean Piaget
b. Mildred Parten
c. Sara Smilansky
d. Erik Erikson
Question 6Researchers find this effect of dramatic play quite useful:
a. cooperation
b. creative thinking
c. imagination
d. fantasy
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