Age appropriate behaviors
Stages of play
Prompting
Chaining and assent
100

True or false:

2-3 year old typically developing children easily share their toys?

What is false?

100

Often at this stage of play development children engage in imaginative or pretend play where they take on different roles. They will often create imaginative worlds and recreate scenes or scenarios that they are familiar with.


What is cooperative play?

100

The prompt to mark for data collection when more than one prompt is used

What is the most intrusive prompt?

100

The affirmative agreement or cooperation provided by an individual who may not have the legal capacity to provide informed consent, but who can express their willingness or preference to participate in an activity or intervention to the best of their understanding

What is assent?

200

Which of the following is NOT age appropriate for a two year old? 

No understanding of intentionality – they see, they do without thinking about why or what it means

Will follow their curiosity and will pull things down or apart to see what happens. Ditto with throwing anything onto the floor.

Increased attention span

Two of their favourite words to say, ‘Mine!’ and ‘No!’, and Two of their least favourite words to hear, ‘Mine!’ and ‘No!’

What is Attention span will start to increase which will impact on the type of discussions you are able to have with them

200

children are playing side-by-side but not interacting with each other. They’ll be playing with similar toys, but not playing together.

What is parallel play? 

200

This order of prompting:

Full physical

Partial physical

Model

Gesture

Positional

Independent

What is most to least?

200

Breaking down complex, multi step behaviors into smaller more manageable steps and teaching them systematically

What is chaining?

300

Which of the following is NOT age appropriate for 3 year olds?

Will flip between wanting to be independent (‘I do it!’, or ‘by myself’) and wanting to be treated like a little person (‘carry me’ or ‘you do it’).

Will start to assert control over their environment by wanting to plan activities, do things by themselves, try challenging things.

Needs one word commands (which probably won’t be followed)

What is needs one word commands (which probably won’t be followed)

300

At this stage, children will tend to watch other children playing, but won’t engage with them. They’ll simply observe

What is onlooker play?

300

This order of prompting:

Independent

Positional

Gesture

Model

Partial physical

Full physical

What is least to most?

300

 teaching a behavioral chain beginning with the first step: have the child complete the first step independently and then prompt all remaining steps

What is forward chaining?

400

Which of the following is NOT developmentally appropriate for 4 year olds?

Seldom obeys any verbal command

Will become competitive.

Will still blur reality and fantasy sometimes. Might tell lies, extravagant stories, or have imaginary friend/s.

What is seldom obeys any verbal command

400

During this stage, children play alone and do not interact with other children. They engage in activities that are self-directed, such as playing with toys or exploring their environment.

What is solitary play?

400

This order of verbal prompting:

Full Verbal

Partial Verbal

Phonemic Cue

Independent

What is most to least verbal prompting?

400

teaching a behavioral chain beginning with the last step: you would completely prompt the entire chain of behaviors except the last step

What is backward chaining?

500

Which of the following is NOT appropriate for 5 year olds?

Attention span will start to increase which will impact on the type of discussions you are able to have with them.

Has no concept of sharing

Might come across as being an ‘expert’ on everything.

What is has no concept of sharing?

500

This is the stage in child development where they begin directly engaging in activities with other children.

Although they will be engaging with peers, the play won’t be organized, and the children won’t be focused on a common goal. Each child will still be very focused on their own play and their own goals.

What is associative play?

500

This order of verbal prompting

Independent

Phonemic Cue

Partial Verbal

Full Verbal

What is least to most verbal prompting?

500

When you teach the complete behavior chain one step after another. The adult walks the child through each step, prompting as necessary.

What is total task chaining?