Study Guide Answers

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Chapter 1

• Study Guide Answers

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Question 1

• What three things influence your relationship
  with young children??
• Your interest in children.
• Your knowledge of their changing stages and
  needs.
• Your skill in applying that knowledge

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Question 2

• Why study children?
• Your understanding of children will grow
• You will come to know yourself better
• You will develop skills that will be valuable
  throughout your lifetime.

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Question 3

• How can learning about children help you get
  along with them better?
• You will more fully appreciate all
  characteristics of human development.
• You will begin to see why children act, feel, and
  think as they do.
• You will be able to apply your learning to
  everyday life.
• You will learn practical techniques of caring for
  children.
• You will discover that children are fun.

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Question 4

• What is one of the most important concepts that
  have emerged from the study of children?
• Childhood has been identified as being a distinct
  period of life and many people have made a
  special study of this period.
• To explain further, We are learning about how
  children develop, what their special needs are
  and how these needs can best be met. Many
  important concepts have emerged from this kind of
  study perhaps the most important concept is that
  childhood has a significant influence on later
  life.

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Question 5

• How did people in Colonial Days think children
  differed from adults?
• During the colonial period in America, people
  still believed that children differed from adults
  only in size, experience, and abilities.
  Children were dressed, fed, and doctored just as
  adults were.

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Question 6

• Give three examples of the differences between
  childhood in the past and childhood today.
• EXAMPLE ONE (Work)
• In the past, children were expected to work hard
  at an early age.
• Today, most children in our society are not
  thrown into the world of adult work. The job
  of young children is simply to grown, learn, and
  play.

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Question 6

• Give three examples of the differences between
  childhood in the past and childhood today.
• EXAMPLE TWO (Nutrition)
• Health Nutrition In the past, parents could
  not expect to raise every child to adulthood due
  to various diseases. Today because of medical
  care and vaccinations most all children live to
  adulthood.
• In the past, babies either thrived on breast milk
  or didnt. Today, we have many types of formulas
  that help babies grown and develop. Special
  formulas are available for infants with special
  dietary needs.

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Question 6

• Give three examples of the differences between
  childhood in the past and childhood today.
• EXAMPLE THREE (Dress)
• Until the seventeenth century, children were
  dressed as small adults. Preschool boys and
  girls were dressed alike until the early part of
  the twentieth century.
• Today, young children now usually wear clothing
  that is suitable in both style and color for
  either boys or girls. Modern children wear
  practical, washable, lightweight garments
  designed to provide freedom of movement and
  maximum confort.

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Question 7

• Why can childhood be called a recent discovery,
  even through there have always been children?
• Because attitudes toward children have changed.
  Our society attached great importance to
  understanding and guiding children.
• Over the past several generations, interest in
  studying children and their behavior has grown
  remarkable. For the first time, researchers and
  scholars have been able to study child growth and
  development scientifically.

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Question 8

• Where can you find information about growth and
  development of children?
• Books, articles, radio, television programs,
  internet, classes.

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Question 9

• Explain in your own words what the following
  characteristics of development mean
• Development is similar for everyone
• Regardless of the country where a child is born,
  that baby will grown and develop physically just
  like any other baby in any other country.

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Question 9

• Explain in your own words what the following
  characteristics of development mean
• Development builds on early learning
• A child learn basic skills or simple tasks before
  progressing to more complex skills or tasks.

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Question 9

• Explain in your own words what the following
  characteristics of development mean
• Development proceeds at an individual rate
• Babies grown and development is similar however,
  each individual baby will grown and develop and
  learn at their own individual pace or rate.

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Question 9

• Explain in your own words what the following
  characteristics of development mean
• The different areas of development are
  interrelated
• Babies dont just grow physically one week and
  the socially the next week. All the areas of
  development (physical, mental, social, and
  emotional) are connected and impact each other.

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Question 9

• Explain in your own words what the following
  characteristics of development mean
• Development is continuous throughout life
• Development does not stop at a certain age. We
  all continue to grown and develop well into
  adulthood.

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Question 10

• Identify four ways that play benefits the
  development of children.
• Physically.
• Intellectually.
• Emotionally.
• Socially.

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Question 11

• Name two major influences on development and give
  an example of each.
• Heredity. What a person looks like, their
  intellectual capability is determined by their
  heredity or genetic makeup.
• Environment. All the people, places, and things
  that surround an individual have an impact on the
  growth and development of that individual.

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