At what age does Piaget's preoperational stage start and end?
2-7 years
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At what age do infants begin showing displeasure?
5-6 months
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What is the purpose of a transitional object?
It is a comfort object that children use to help them cope with separation from the parents and other stressful situations.
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Are the tax and social welfare policies of the United States doing a better or worse job than other economically advanced countries of alleviating childhood poverty?
Worse
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True or False: Swimming, blinking, gag, yawn, sneeze, and rooting are lifetime reflexes
False
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How do infants in the sensorimotor stage gain knowledge of the world?
From the physical actions they perform within it, such as grasping or sucking, and through their senses (vision, hearing, touch).
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When do infants start babbling?
6-8 months
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Ainsworth's Theory of Attachment: Explain what avoidant attachment looks like
The infant is indifferent to the presence of the mother. Whether she is present or not the infant reacts the same to various situations presented.
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True or False: Implications for social work practice does not include helping parents learn associations between childhood development and adulthood
False
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What are the two critical reflexes for newborns?
1. Rooting reflex
2. Sucking reflex
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What happens in Piaget's third stage of development?
Children are able to solve problems using logical problem-solving strategies. Their way of thinking becomes more "adult-like".
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At what age does a child begin to exhibit pleasure and delight?
3 months
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Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development: Explain the industry v. inferiority stage
School age children must develop a sense of competence to master and complete tasks or they will learn to feel inferior or incompetent.
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True or False: When assessing infants, culture is included in the context of their environment?
True
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The arms thrust outward when an infant is released in midair, as if attempting to regain support. This is an example of what reflex?
Moro/startle reflex
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Define object permanence
A child's understanding that objects continue to exist even though they cannot see or hear them.
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At what age does a child begin to become sensitive to others emotional cues?
End of the first year
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According to Bowlby, when does the process of attachment begin?
In the first month of life when the newborn develops the ability to discriminate the mother's voice.
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True or False: Implications for social work practice includes advocating for more affordable childcare
True
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What are the six motor milestones?
1. sitting without support
2. standing with assistance
3. hands and knees crawling
4. walking with assistance
5. standing alone
6. walking alone
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What skills do children gain in the formal operational stage?
Children gain the capacity to apply logic to various situations and use symbols to represent abstract concepts.
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At what age do infants exhibit distress, fear, and anger?
Newborn
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Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Developement: What happens if the "task facilitating factors" for a stage are absent?
The individual will become "stuck" in that stage of development until or unless they are mastered
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What is one issue concerning national and state policy that advocates are likely to address?
Possible Answers:
- Improved policies and programs that prevent child abuse
-Continued support of national programs like WIC
-Adequate health coverage for infants and toddlers