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Slater & Lewis: Introduction to Infant Development

Chapter 14

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Question 1

Broadly speaking, in infancy play develops:

a) From oral to manual manipulation

b) From exploration to pretense

c) From social to individual

d) From individual to social

Question 2

As infants progress from the first to second year of life their play shifts from being:

a) Symbolic to increasingly concrete

b) Peer-focused to increasingly adult focused

c) Concrete to increasingly symbolic

d) Manipulative to exploratory

Question 3

In terms of the emotional functions of play, research suggests that:

a) Play helps children learn to regulate emotion

b) Play is a context for practicing the full range of emotions

c) Play enables children to act out fearful or threatening situations

d) All of the above

Question 4

At 20 months how much of infants' total play on average is symbolic?

a) 11%

b) 30%

c) 44%

d) 60%

Question 5

Which of the following is not true about parents' role in children's play?

a) Parents in all cultures frequently play with their children

b) Parents are better able to promote play in the first year than are peers

c) Parents often use play as a context for teaching their children

d) Social play with parents fosters joy and excitement in young infants

Question 6

Which of the following is true about siblings as play partners?

a) Sibling play does not have benefits

b) Siblings are more effective in teaching 1-2 year olds during play than are parents

c) Play between siblings appears to be more pleasurable and affectively charged than infant-mother play

d) Siblings fight more than they do play

Question 7

Which of the following is considered to be a more sophisticated form of play?

a) Touching and manipulating a toy

b) Pretending to feed a doll with a stick and then putting the doll to sleep

c) Pretending to drink out of a cup

d) Placing a block on top of another block

Question 8

What do studies of play in different societies tell us?

a) Adults view their roles as play partners quite differently in different societies

b) Play does not differ at all across societies

c) In some societies, infants already engage in pretense in their first few months of life

d) In some societies, infants never engage in pretense play

Question 9

Play with _________ is more likely to incorporate exciting and frightening themes than play with _________

a) Siblings; fathers

b) Fathers; mothers

c) Siblings; mothers

d) Fathers; siblings

Question 10

Which of the following is not true about the functions of play?

a) Play has emotional functions, but serves no purpose in learning

b) Play serves a number of important psychological functions

c) Play is a context for learning language

d) Different play partners can serve different functions at different developmental periods

Question 11

Studies have shown that when play in Japanese mothers and toddlers is compared to play in middle-income, US mothers:

a) There is more exploration

b) There is more labeling

c) There is more self-directed pretense

d) There is more other-directed pretense

Question 12

In the first few months of life:

a) There is no such thing as play as infants are too immature

b) Only siblings play with infants

c) Face-to-face, playful exchanges are common

d) Infants don't enjoy playing

Question 13

By 2-3 years, sibling and peer play becomes increasingly important as:

a) A way to act out aggression

b) A source of information about social roles and conventions, including gender-roles

c) A setting that fosters children's growing interest in reading and literacy

d) A way to take a break from the pushiness of parent play

Question 14

Peers are less likely than parents and siblings:

a) To take a teaching stance in play with age-mates

b) To engage in push-and-pull play

c) To engage in face-to-face play

d) To encourage exploration in play

Question 15

Who emphasized the importance of play in the development of representational thinking?

a) Bandura and Bruner

b) Bornstein and Tamis-LeMonda

c) Freud and Bruner

d) Piaget and Vygotsky

Question 16

Which type of play facilitates the use of more complex language?

a) Play with peers

b) Play with siblings

c) Play with mother

d) Play with grandparents

Question 17

Low income fathers who are more responsive during play with their 2-year-olds were how many times more likely to have children who performed within the normal range in the Bayley Mental Development Index (MDI)?

a) Two times

b) Three times

c) Four times

d) Five times

Question 18

Intersubjectivity refers to:

a) Awareness of the self as an individual

b) Social understanding and shared meaning

c) Conversational turn-taking

d) Emotional attachments to significant others (e.g., the mother)

Question 19

In which cultures do mothers believe it is not important to play with their children?

a) France and Argentina

b) Japan and China

c) Portugal and Ecuador

d) Mexico and Guatemala

Question 20

In hunter-gathering and agricultural societies the primary playmates for toddlers and children are:

a) Children rather than adults

b) Adults rather than children

c) Peers rather than siblings

d) Parents rather than siblings

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