Chapter 1 & 3
The field of early childhood education serves children:
birth through age 8
What is an "age-related change that results from an interaction between biological maturation and physical and/or social experience"?
development
The process where children learn expected rules of behavior:
acculturation
Theory views family members as interconnected parts with each member influencing the others in predictable and recurring ways:
Family Systems Theory
A classroom in which children and adults have warm positive, respectful relationships is known as:
a caring community of learners
This area of development according to current research affects all other areas of children’s development and strongly predicts their success in school and later life:
executive function
What is Maslow's theory useful for understanding?
motivation
Shared characteristic of a group people and is connected to the geographic origin of a group:
ethnicity
This factor is considered the greatest challenge for families:
poverty
Typically, the first people that a child attaches to are:
parents
The growing trend to include children with special needs or challenging behaviors in typical early childhood programs is called:
Inclusion
The term for a way of increasing a behavior by having an unpleasant consequence be avoided if the task is performed:
negative reinforcement
The term that defines children who are learning two languages at once:
dual language learner
What is a family said to have if there is closeness, concern, caring, and interaction in the family?
protective factors
The term for when children change from cleaning up the classroom to getting ready for lunch:
transition
The term Widening the Lens refers to thinking that is:
both/and
Creating multiple paths so that children of different abilities, interests, or learning needs experience equally appropriate ways to achieve important learning goals is known as:
differentiated instruction
Type of early childhood curriculum includes learning experiences and strategies that are specifically designed to counter the stereotyping of diverse groups and to guard against expressions of bias:
anti-bias curriculum
The experiences, traditions, and cultural knowledge families bring:
"funds of knowledge"
If Darren hits Zaya because she took his truck away and the teacher recognizes that the hitting was because Darren has limited language, then that teacher would probably use what term to describe his hitting behavior?
mistaken behavior
A two-way relationship in which information and power is shared evenly is called:
Reciprocal relationship
This theory of development explains that development is influenced by both biology and experience, and how they interact with each other:
If a teacher were to plan his curriculum in which the class sometimes discusses the dress, food, and holidays of another culture, what type of approach to curriculum would he be said to be using?
tourist curriculum
Joe is a father of a kindergartener. He gets frustrated when school conferences and other events are scheduled during school hours because he can't take the time off work. This is a case where the school is showing:
lack of flexibility
Dani is a new child at her child care center. She is 18 months old and has been in 3 different foster care homes thus far. She is irritable most of the time and does not play well with other children. She often seeks comfort from caregivers and teachers, but then screams when she receives it. What type of attachment is Danielle most likely exhibiting?
insecure-resistant attachment