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EC-K1: Awareness of the basic developmental stages within domains of motor, cognitive, communication, and social-emotional development for infants and young children ages birth to 5.
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Lesson 3 Reinforcement

Activity: QuickQuiz

1. In the text fields below (with the question marks), type the letter that matches each of the following definitions with the process that it defines: Then, choose CheckAnswers to see how you did; the letter for the correct answer will appear in the text field.

  1. Enables children to link past and present experiences in order to understand their environment.
  2. Refers to a child’s ability to look at and play or work with an object for an extended period of time.
  3. Any process in which children become aware of what is happening around them.




2. During the first two years of life, children use physical senses and motor capacities to interact with and learn about the environment. What stage of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development does this represent?




3. Between ages 3 and 7, children’s thinking is dominated by what is seen. They are only able to attend to one element – space, time, volume, shape, or weight – at a time. What stage of Piaget’s theory does this represent?




4. True or False: In Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, abstract reasoning develops during the concrete-operational stage (between ages 7 and 11).


 

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