HD FS 340 Fall 2002
Study Guide, Exam 1
Susan Hegland
Learning Outcomes for Exam 1:
1) Describe characteristics of developmentally appropriate and inappropriate practices in the
care of infants and toddlers
2) Describe motor, personal and social, and cognitive skills expected of young, mobile, and
older infants (from the California Desired Results Developmental Profile).
3) Describe activities and materials appropriate to facilitate motor, personal and social, and
cognitive skills in young, mobile, and older infants.
4) Describe the stages of development of Piaget and Erikson, including implications for
appropriate caregiving behaviors.
5) Describe characteristics of children with different temperamental patterns, and appropriate
caregiving responses for each.
6) Describe adaptations in caregiving strategies and activities for children with special needs in
motor, sensory, social, emotional, and cognitive development.
7) Describe caregiving strategies consistent with the principles of Resources for Infant
Educarers (RIE) (Magda Gerber).
8) Describe characteristics, and appropriate materials, for infants working on each of the six
discoveries of infancy (six schemes in Piaget’s sensorimotor stage).
9) Describe strategies appropriate for building a caregiver- family alliance.
10) Describe phases of, and caregiver behaviors consistent with Floor Time (Greenspan).
11) Describe limits of, and appropriate applications of, time-out.
Sample questions:
1) Megan, who is 8 months old, carefully watches you as you clap your hands together, saying
“pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake”. Megan cautiously brings both hands together in a clapping action,
then in a rolling motion, as the rhyme proceeds. The discovery of infancy that Megan is
working on is
a) Understanding space
b) Learning that events are caused
c) Use of tools
d) Imitation
2) Which of the following motor skills would you expect to see in a mobile infant, but not in a
younger infant?
a) Crawls or creeps on hands and knees
b) Stands and walks on tip toes
c) Walks up stairs holding a hand or railing
d) Walks backwards
3) Which of the following caregiver statements is consistent with Lally’s description of “talking
through the child?....
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4) Jamie has …. He is crying. Which of the following behaviors are consistent with the
principles of RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers) (Magda Gerber)?....