Name this stage of play: children often strive to play in solitude, and do not communicate with other children. Any communication between children in this stage and others is almost nonexistent.
Solitary Independent Play
100
True/False: Make-believe play can afford to be removed/reduced in favor of academic instruction.
FALSE (Make-believe play is crucial to children, it provides them with a unique setting and allows them to work within contexts that they otherwise would not experience.)
100
What skills do children start to learn when they begin to utilize smaller loose parts? More specifically, what are they learning when they sort, group, collect, separate, and combine smaller loose parts?
Mathematical/Numerical skills
100
True/False: Lev Vygotsky's "scaffolding" will help children become more self-controlled and independent.
TRUE
200
The stage sometimes referred to as “adjacent play” or “social coaction.”
Parallel Play
200
True/False: "Most Kindergarteners get 30 minutes of play; many have no playtime at all."
TRUE (Academic-heavy instruction in public schools has left little to no time for play in Kindergarten.)
True/False: The absolute lowest level in Maslow's hierarchy contains needs of basic survival including food and water.
TRUE
300
The absolute highest level of play children can achieve. Children work in synchronization to take turns, work together, and share for the benefit of the group.
Cooperative Play
300
Fill in the blank: The ________ provide children with opportunities for physical development, exploration, emotional development, as well as providing more loose parts than anyone would ever need.
Outdoors
300
TRUE/FALSE: Loose Parts are only found indoors, and are prearranged and obtained by a teacher.
FALSE (Loose parts are found indoors and out, and are not always bought or arranged by a teacher.)
300
Which theorist believed in stages of development in which a child adapts to their surroundings over the course of many years?
Jean Piaget
400
The “behavior” in Parten’s classifications that describes a child that simply watches others.
Onlooker Behavior
400
True/False: Daniel Elkonin identified four different ways that play impacts a child's development. One way included a belief that play begins to chip away at a child's egocentricism.
TRUE (Play begins to provide a child with a sense of the perspectives of others, something that is vital to reaching the higher levels of play.)
400
True/False: Loose Parts encourage and develop several skills and abilities that will help children as they prepare for Kindergarten.
TRUE (Loose parts develop math skills, art skills, language, science skills, etc.)
400
Which theorist developed stages of "psychosocial development" in which the lowest stage is "trust vs. mistrust"?
Erik Erikson
500
The stage of play where a child simply watches and observes others, or anything else that may interest the child.
Unoccupied Play
500
Fill in the blank: ______ are some of the most important toys for children to utilize. Their use spurs learning in the areas of mathematics, art, and even science.
Blocks!
500
True/False: Children prefer Loose Parts to objects that have a single job or purpose.
TRUE (Children quickly tire of objects that only do one thing - there is no adventure or challenge left once they have solved it.)
500
Which theorist found "artistic expression" as a main interest in children? (Hint: There are three others.)