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1
Infants and toddlers at play
A)develop skills and learn concepts, including those related to early literacy.
B)can integrate, practice and test new understandings.
C)benefit from open-ended exploration without being confined by a number of rules, procedures or outcomes.
D)All of the above
2
For infants and toddlers, play is so important that adults should
A)organize it into learning activities.
B)set goals and objectives, and be sure the children reach them through play.
C)seek to understand and appreciate what infants and toddlers actually do when they are playing.
D)All of the above
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An important approach adults take to insure that free-play remains both free and beneficial is
A)to always keep hands off.
B)to set up a rich, safe, interesting, developmentally appropriate environment that encourages exploration.
C)to allow only one child to play at a time.
D)None of the above
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Which of the following is not one of the recommended adult roles for facilitating the play of infants and toddlers?
A)encouraging interactions and then stepping back
B)observing as a way of understanding each child
C)solving all of infant's problems
D)setting up safe environments for play
5
Setting up the environment to support the full range of infant-toddler play includes
A)making sure everything in the environment is touchable.
B)providing for both fine- and gross-motor activity.
C)putting out the right amount of toys and creating the right number of choices.
D)All of the above
6
A 'happening'
A)is just another name for activity and looks exactly the same.
B)broadens the idea of what infants and toddlers engage in and learn from.
C)is more appropriate for preschool-age children than infants and toddlers.
D)is always more complicated than an activity.
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The problem of the match
A)is conducted by the fire marshal to teach children fire safety.
B)is related to the color scheme of the environment and its effect on children.
C)is related to the fact that learning occurs when the environment provides familiar experiences that are also novel.
D)is different from optimum incongruity
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Which of the following is not a way to solve the problem of the match?
A)Understanding developmental stages
B)Observing to see what is a match for each individual child
C)Providing a number of choices
D)Teaching the group of children the concepts you want them to learn
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Through observation a caregiver can
A)gain an idea about what kinds of things to put into the environment.
B)determine what each child's interests are.
C)see the matches that each child makes by what he or she chooses to engage with.
D)All of the above
10
When children "get stuck" it's important for the adult to
A)figure out the next move for them and get them "unstuck."
B)constantly push them.
C)allow them to get bored sometimes.
D)None of the above
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Exploration is:
A)perception.
B)an act of discovering and examining one's surroundings.
C)always safe if it's indoors.
D)always dangerous if it's outdoors.
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Infant and toddler play:
A)is similar to the way older children play.
B)is different from the way older children play.
C)is not involved with the surrounding environment.
D)should be limited to a 1-hour period before lunch.







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