Child Life Exam Child Life Child Development Theories 3

Question 1

According to Kohlberg's theory of moral development, a child who follows hospital rules to avoid punishment is functioning at which level?

Accepted Answer

Preconventional level

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Conventional level

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Post-conventional level

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Formal operational level

Question 2

In Ainsworth's Strange Situation experiment, a child who shows little distress at the caregiver's departure and actively avoids them upon return demonstrates which attachment style?

Accepted Answer

Avoidant attachment

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Secure attachment

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Anxious-ambivalent attachment

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Disorganized attachment

Question 3

Which theorist's work on the concept of 'scaffolding' is most directly applied when a child life specialist gradually reduces support as a child demonstrates increasing ability to cope independently?

Accepted Answer

Lev Vygotsky

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B.F. Skinner

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Anna Freud

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Howard Gardner

Question 4

A toddler who cries inconsolably during hospitalization and then becomes withdrawn and detached is demonstrating which phase of Robertson's separation response?

Accepted Answer

Detachment phase

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Protest phase only

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Despair phase

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Denial phase

Question 5

According to Piaget's theory, which cognitive milestone allows a school-age child to understand that spreading out pills does not change the total number they must take?

Accepted Answer

Conservation

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Object permanence

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Symbolic function

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Abstract reasoning

Question 6

Which developmental theorist's concept of 'industry versus inferiority' directly supports a child life specialist providing opportunities for mastery experiences during hospitalization?

Accepted Answer

Erik Erikson

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Sigmund Freud

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Jean Piaget

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Lawrence Kohlberg