Why is there a tendency for parents to treat full-term infants better than preterm infants?
a. Full-term infants cry more than preterm infants.
b. The behavior of preterm infants is more irritable.
c. Preterm infants demand more interaction time than full-term infants.
d. They do not treat full-term infants better; that is a myth.
Question 2Both Piaget and Kohlberg believed that children's moral reasoning undergoes the same cognitive developmental pattern around that world and:
a. is complete by age 12.
b. develops in a continuous, rather than a stage-like, manner.
c. is unrelated to their ability to take the perspective of another.
d. reflects the values of the social and cultural setting in which the child is reared.
Question 3How should preterm babies be handled?
a. Current thinking is to handle them as little as possible.
b. not for the first two weeks of life
c. Research now shows that preterm infants benefit from stimulation such as cuddling and rocking.
d. Research shows that how you handle them does not matter.
Question 4Which teaching technique would Piaget be most likely to endorse?
a. lecturing
b. one-on-one instruction
c. group discussions and interactions among students
d. none of these
Question 5What does the research say regarding parental behavior towards preterm infants?
a. Parents tend to interact with preterm infants less and respond with less sensitivity.
b. Parents tend to respond to them in a highly sensitive way and interact with them frequently.
c. Parental behavior depends upon the sex of the child.
d. There is no consistency in the research on this issue.
Question 6How can Piaget's ideas on concrete operations be used in classrooms?
a. by helping teachers understand that cognitive development coincides with age
b. by providing ideas on how teachers can stimulate cognitive development
c. by showing teachers that time is all that is needed for children to develop cognitive skills
d. by demonstrating that group discussions are not a useful teaching strategy in the classroom
Question 7Which of the following children is most likely to show the greatest cognitive deficits and developmental delays?
a. a baby born at or before 37 weeks of gestation
b. It depends on maternal nutrition.
c. a child weighing less than 3.3 pounds
d. It depends on ethnicity.
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