Deck 3: Preschool Years

Question 1

A good number of four-year-olds can distinguish rhyming words.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Self-commentary is seen more in older rather than younger preschoolers.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Preschoolers tend to focus on the superficial properties of new objects they encounter.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Consonants are formed by fully opening the vocal tract.

Question 5

It is not professional to point out to children different features of their environment;it is more memorable if they discover it for themselves.

Question 6

Metalinguistic awareness is displayed in the following child statement: "The table has four legs and iron sides."

Question 7

The difference between receptive and productive vocabulary is displayed when the young child upon request successfully retrieves slippers from an upstairs closet but has a speaking vocabulary of only 10 to 20 words.

Question 8

Words or phrases that are fun to say appeal to preschoolers,especially clever words in stories,books,children's TV programs,and movies.

Question 9

The child's saying "Moo" when he sees a horse is an example of his use of pragmatic vocabulary.

Question 10

The usual rate of learning words during the preschool years is 25 to 35 per day.

Question 11

Many adults as well as preschoolers talk to themselves out loud.

Question 12

Besides learning new words during the preschool years,the child establishes links between words and concepts.

Question 13

Naming an object for a child may promote the child's observation of its distinct features.

Question 14

Most toddlers reveal their thinking in their speech rather than in the actions they are performing.

Question 15

Regularization and overextended speech describe a mature phenomenon that occurs in most preschoolers' speech.

Question 16

It is common for the speech of two-year-olds to include many omissions and distortions.

Question 17

In our culture it is not unusual for sexually related words to be spoken by preschoolers.

Question 18

A teacher can expect to have one or more hesitant-to-speak preschoolers who actually have well-developed speech abilities in most preschool classrooms.

Question 19

Preschool children group objects and form categories using the same criteria or distinguishing features as older children.

Question 20

The use of pragmatic speech is typical in very young two-year-olds.

Question 21

The quality of preschooler's forming mental categories depends on the quality and quantity of his experiences and human interactions.

Question 22

A child who pronounces words correctly 95 percent of the time is probably

A)​an articulate two-year-old.
B)​a slow-developing three-year-old.
C)​a typical four-year-old.
D)​a grammar school child.

Question 23

Use of the word aminal displays

A)​faulty hearing.
B)​poor enunciation.
C)​omitting sounds.
D)​substituting sounds.

Question 24

It is professional for a teacher to tell a child,"That kind of talk is unacceptable," if the child's words are socially questionable.

Question 25

Children use make-believe,fantasy,and role-playing in group play.

Question 26

At group times,to promote turn taking teachers sometimes use a "your turn to listen,and my turn to talk" prop.

Question 27

Verbs have regular and irregular forms,and 'drank' is a regular past tense form.

Question 28

At about age 4 preschoolers add tag endings to their questions such as "right?"

Question 29

The best response to a preschooler who stammers or stutters when speaking is to ask him or her to repeat the speech until it is error-free.

Question 30

An early pruning of unused or rarely experienced mental data is believed to take place as early as age four.

Question 31

At three years of age,most children can

A)​monologue and dialogue.
B)​display an advanced,productive vocabulary of 2,400 words.
C)​repeat a sentence of six words or more
D)​none of these answers

Question 32

A preschooler who acts terrified when seeing a large life-like bee replica is exhibiting overextension.

Question 33

Hearing other playmates speech has the greatest influence on whether a child self-corrects his/her speech errors.

Question 34

If a child uses four or less than four word sentences,you'd suspect he is about 4 years old.

Question 35

At one or two years of age if a toddler has an average vocabulary size of 200 words,you would estimate that at five years of age he'd have 10 times that amount or more words in his vocabulary.

Question 36

A preschooler who does not use self-talk frequently needs close observation to determine if there is a problem.

Question 37

The subdued or shy preschooler may not be able to form an answer if anxious.

Question 38

An illogical preschooler's statement needs to be ignored.

Question 39

A child just beginning to use forms of the verb to be is probably a

A)​two-year-old.
B)​three-year-old.
C)​four-year-old.
D)​none of these answers

Question 40

Self-talk may help children

A)​sequence actions.
B)​control behavior.
C)​be flexible in their thinking.
D)​all of these answers

Question 41

A good way to promote the learning of new skills is to

A)​present many of them at the same time.
B)​have interesting room furnishings and play things.
C)​make sure the child has a degree of success.
D)​praise him lavishly.

Question 42

A lot of young preschoolers' comments describe

A)​sophisticated features of objects.
B)​details and cause-and-effect environmental relationships.
C)​what they have done and what they are doing.
D)​what others are doing wrong.

Question 43

Preschoolers use self talk to

A)​influence others
B)​keep some of their ideas a secret
C)​direct their actions.
D)​communicate new ideas to others.

Question 44

Creative speech for preschoolers evident in group play may include

A)​role-playing.
B)​imitating a cartoon character.
C)​making up a silly saying and repeating it.
D)​all of the above

Question 45

Most preschoolers can produce

A)​all the vowel sounds.
B)​all the sounds in their native language.
C)​all consonants.
D)​none of these answers

Question 46

Preschool playmate friendships become

A)​more volatile with age.
B)​more fixed and stable with age.
C)​more important with age.
D)​less important with age.

Question 47

Most preschoolers' logic as expressed in their verbal statements is

A)​immature but develops in kindergarten.
B)​faulty.
C)​logical considering their past experience.
D)​all of the above.

Question 48

When preschoolers first begin to imitate the actions of others,their play will probably involve

A)​the behavior of cartoon characters
B)​their peer's actions
C)​things seen at home
D)​things seen at their play center

Question 49

Asked to put a wide range of objects in categories,a child puts those of the same color together.He is sorting

A)​by function.
B)​by a visual attribute.
C)​in an intellectually immature manner.
D)​none of the above.

Question 50

A consonant can be described as

A)​both a speech sound and a characteristic of some alphabet letters.
B)​the alphabet letter U.
C)​something that happens frequently.
D)​none of the above.

Question 51

While watching a clown fall down,which statement by a young preschooler would be most typical?

A)​"Did he hurt himself?"
B)​"He dead?"
C)​"He fell down."
D)​"What a joke."

Question 52

If all of a sudden a child who hears well doesn't anymore,suspect

A)​earwigs.
B)​a cold or infection.
C)​he is choosing to fool you.
D)​boredom.

Question 53

The wind blows the door shut,and the children insist another teacher or a mother closed the door.This is an example of children

A)​making an inference.
B)​being humorous.
C)​being creative.
D)​who have a tendency to guess when they do not know.

Question 54

Pair together the most similar words in the A and B columns.

Question 55

Being presented with an unknown kiwi fruit and told to eat it,a preschooler refuses saying,"No,it's ugly" because he is probably

A)​making a judgment based upon superficial properties.
B)​testing if he has to eat it.
C)​being negative and contrary.
D)​an adventurous child.

Question 56

The best thing about using impact words a preschooler may find is

A)​you can insult others.
B)​it can cause an uproar or gain attention.
C)​it makes a child feel like a mom or dad.
D)​it always gets laughs.

Question 57

A preschooler with a vocabulary of about 4,000 words would be considered

A)​a slow developer.
B)​advanced.
C)​very advanced.
D)​moderately delayed.

Question 58

A child using the word pee pee

A)​is bound to get into trouble.
B)​is teasing.
C)​may be using the only word he knows for the function.
D)​is using a forbidden word.

Question 59

Arrange the following statements in the sequence they most often appear in preschoolers' past-tense speech development.
1.Over-regularities.Example adds '-ed'.
2.Learns both regular and irregular forms.
3.Uses irregular tense endings correctly.
4.Forms an internal rule.

Question 60

One thing to expect in the make-believe play of older preschoolers is

A)​it causes hurt feelings.
B)​no one wants to be the dog.
C)​it displays more speech complexity and depth.
D)​they will want the teacher to join in.

Question 61

Write a paragraph that discusses teacher strategies to promote a child's joy in a new learning.

Question 62

What is meant by the statement,"Preschoolers are beginning to understand words are arbitrary symbols"?

Question 63

Discuss in a few sentences why so much of preschoolers' speech lacks clarity.

Question 64

How does a teacher know when a word is part of a young child's receptive vocabulary?

Question 65

Write two examples of telegraphic speech and discuss why staff members may not understand the child's intent.

Question 66

When brain synapses are "pruned," they

Question 67

Discuss preschoolers' increasing maturity in the questions he asks others using examples when necessary.

Question 68

What erroneous conclusion might an inexperienced teacher make about a child with an extensive vocabulary and clear pronunciation of words his peers have not mastered?