Play and Learning Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
This course explores the fundamental role of play in child development and learning, examining how playful experiences support cognitive, social, emotional, and physical growth. Students will investigate various theories of play, its impact on motivation and creativity, and the ways play can be integrated into educational settings to enhance learning outcomes. The course emphasizes practical strategies for incorporating play-based approaches in curricula for diverse age groups and backgrounds, helping future educators understand the value of play in fostering holistic development and lifelong learning skills.
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Children Play and Development 4th Edition by Fergus
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P. Hughes
Chapter 1: Historical and Theoretical Viewpoints
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Q1) Classic theories of play, which appeared during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, emphasized the __________ value of the activity.
A) biological
B) intellectual
C) historical
D) emotional
E) therapeutic
Answer: A
Q2) The Puritans were harsh people who treated their children with sternness and had little use for play of any sort.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) According to the cognitive-developmental theorist_____________, play is the dominance of assimilation over accommodation.
Answer: Jean Piaget
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Chapter 2: Ethological and Cultural Perspectives
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Q1) Cultures whose common characteristic is that their fortunes depend on factors they cannot control are likely to engage in games of ________.
Answer: chance
Q2) Animals who have to assume specific positions within a social order estab?lished by their peers are the most likely to engage in play.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) In cultures in which they are separated from the world of adults, children are more likely to play out the roles of _______ characters.
Answer: fantasy
Q4) When they play with their toddlers, Japanese mothers are more likely than Americans to try to teach about the physical properties of objects. A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q5) A foot race and a weightlifting competition are examples of games of ________.
Answer: physical skill
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Chapter 3: The First 2 Years of Life
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Q1) There is a good deal of variation across cultures in the pace (i.e., changing toys or activities) of parent-infant play.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Mothers in Indonesia seem to be particularly playful when interacting with their young children.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Which is not a demonstrated benefit of mother-infant play?
A) It keeps the infant at an optimal level of arousal.
B) It increases the infant's intelligence.
C) It fosters self-confidence in the infant.
D) It facilitates the process of parent-child attachment.
E) It encourages the infant to explore its surroundings.
Answer: B
Q4) There is a relationship between the development of pretend play and the development of ______________.
Answer: language
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Chapter 4: The Preschool Years: From 2 to 5
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Q1) Most of five-year-old Paul's pretend play is solitary, and he rarely engages in group pretend activities even though he has many children available to play with. What can be said of Paul's play patterns?
A) They are perfectly normal for a child his age.
B) They suggest the possibility that Paul is socially immature.
C) They are normal for a boy, but would suggest immaturity in a girl.
D) They are indicative of emotional disturbance.
E) They indicate that Paul is more socially mature than his age-mates.
Q2) It is not until the age of three that children clearly know the difference between reality and make-believe A)True
B)False
Q3) According to Mildren Parten, the lowest level of play is _______ play.
Q4) When young children play in traditional playgrounds, most of their time is spent in _________ play.
Q5) What is the relationship between play and the security of a child's attachment to its mother? Specifically, in what ways do securely attached children play that is less typical of children who are not as closely attached?
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Chapter 5: Play in Later Childhood and Adolescence
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Q1) Adolescent boys in the United States devote an average of an hour per day to sports participation, and girls devote the same amount of time to sports as boys do.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Your uncle has decided to enroll your six-year-old cousin in a hockey league, because it will benefit the child's health and because "sports build character". Based on the available research on the subject, what would you tell your uncle about the value for children of sports participation?
Q3) Eight-year-old Heather collects fossils every time her family goes to their cottage during summer vacation. What might the benefits of Heather's hobby be in terms of her intellectual, social, and personality development?
Q4) Most people in the United States who play computer games are between the ages of _______ and _______.
Q5) The most frequent players of computer games in the United States today are between the ages of 12 and 17.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Gender Differences in Play
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Q1) The ___________ theory of gender development states that sex hormones affect the sexual differentiation of the brain during critical periods of development.
Q2) Rough-and-tumble play differs from _________ in the degree of seriousness displayed by the participants.
A) fantasy play
B) aggression
C) vigorous activity play
D) sensorimotor play
E) games-with-rules
Q3) Gender _________ is the recognition that males and females are different on the basis of their physical characteristics.
Q4) The recognition that gender will remain the same regardless of surface changes in physical appearance is known as gender
A) stability.
B) consistency.
C) identity.
D) stereotypy.
E) discrimination.
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Chapter 7: Play in Special Populations
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Q1) Asperger's syndrome is characterized by social difficulties, repetitive behaviors, and significant communication problems.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which is not true of the outcome of the inclusion approach of integrating special needs children into classrooms with typically developing children?
A) Children with special needs are usually completely accepted by other children.
B) Young children seem to prefer a playmate whose development is normal to a playmate with a disability.
C) Positive social interaction is more likely among children without disabilities than among children who have them.
D) There is often very little spontaneous interaction between the two groups.
E) Children with special needs develop fewer friendships.
Q3) Describe some of the emotional reactions of hospitalized children that indicate that a hospital stay can be a highly stressful experience. What is there about hospitalization that is so stressful for many children?
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Chapter 8: Play and Intellectual Development
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Q1) Enactive representation occurs when a person encodes information about the world in physical movement instead of or as well as mentally.
A)True
B)False
Q2) You are asked to speak to a parent group about the toys that are most likely to facilitate divergent thinking, as well as those least likely to do so. What kinds of materials would you recommend to the parents, and what would you advise them to stay away from?
Q3) Play materials such as paint and clay fit into the category of _______ toys.
A) fluid construction
B) structured construction
C) microsymbolic
D) macrosymbolic
Q4) A _________ spatial concept allows a child to think of space as an overall network, independent of the number or the arrangement of elements within it.
Q5) Describe and provide examples of the four different types of language play that occur in early childhood.
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Chapter 9: The Social Benefits of Play
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Q1) An instrument known as the ______ __________ _______ is used to study children's behaviors when they are at play and to identify children at risk in terms of their social development.
Q2) One of the essential characteristics of social play is that the players must share their imaginations when developing the themes of a play episode.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The most effective social intervention approach with unpopular children is A) coaching.
B) shaping.
C) modeling.
D) cooperating.
E) conditioning.
Q4) The most typical form of musical experience for preschool children is A) listening to music.
B) group singing.
C) rhythms.
D) playing musical instruments.
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Chapter 10: The Uses of Play in Therapy
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Q1) Therapy with children seems to be most effective if
A) a directive rather than a non-directive approach is used.
B) the child attends for at least 50 sessions.
C) the child can play freely rather than have restrictions placed on the play.
D) a psychodynamic rather than a relationship approach is used.
E) the therapist is acquainted with the child before the therapy begins.
Q2) The child reads a book about a character with problems similar to his or her own, and then discusses the problem with a therapist. This technique is
A) non-directive therapy.
B) bibliotherapy.
C) storytelling.
D) release therapy.
E) psychodrama.
Q3) Reading about the experiences of others often helps people gain insights into their own lives, and this phenomenon forms the rationale for ___________.
Q4) Virginia Axline believed that children have an internal motivation to help themselves in therapy.
A)True
B)False
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