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MTEL Early Childhood Test Answer Key
1. D: In early childhood, children widen their social interactions and become more involved with and attuned to the people around them. They explore their environment, take risks, find adventure in the backyard, and discover how things work. They are very creative and expressive.
2. B: Cognitive development is the acquisition of and mental processes for knowing, awareness, perception, reasoning and judgment. Early theories believed the individual progresses through various stages from infancy to adulthood and growth stops at a certain point. Later theories suggest acquisition of these complex processes is a lifelong process that starts in infancy and continues until death.
3. C: Studies have shown and casual observation agrees that a child’s temperament has a direct influence on how he behaves in a particular situation or reacts to a particular stimuli. As a child ages, he will exert more control over his environmental choices, which will affect his interactions.
4. A: Learning disabilities may be caused by heredity, teratogenic elements, medical reasons and societal influences. People with learning disabilities are never “cured.” They process information differently and learn ways to cope with and work around whatever challenges they have and many function very well in later life. especially if they receive help in the early years.
5. A: Gifted children utilize their intellectual curiosity in unique ways. However, they share common characteristics: an extreme need for constant, engaging mental stimulation; a need to explore all aspects of a topic; an insatiable curiosity about everything; the ability to shut out distractions; and ability to focus for long periods of time.