DCF BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATION AND SCREENING (BOSR) NEWEST EXAM 2024 ACTUAL EXAM 200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+

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DCF BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATION AND SCREENING

(BOSR) NEWEST EXAM 2024 ACTUAL EXAM 200

QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS

(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+

1-2% of infants have no discernible disabling conditions at the

time of birth, but by school age, 10% of all children are found to

have some degree of developmental disability - ANSWER- True

True or False: Parents could be unaware of the signs of

developmental delay. It is the child care provider who can draw

attention to a child who might benefit from professional

intervention - ANSWER- True

True or False: Proper screening leads to sound assessment so

that early detection of potential developmental problems will

determine the correct referral an intervention - ANSWER- True

Screening provides a common reference point and basis for

interaction for: - ANSWER- parents, child care workers, child

development specialists

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The key benefits of developmental screenings are: - ANSWEREarly detection, activities that strengthen the child's skills,

quality information is available to parents regarding in-the-home

activities that support normal development, common reference

points and basis for interaction for all stakeholders

True or False: If a child misses an early window of opportunity,

some later development is more difficult or even sometimes

permanently compromised - ANSWER- True

Who is in the best position to detect early problems and provide

accurate, timely information about the child's development? -

ANSWER- Child care workers

True or False: Development occurs rapidly and typically

progresses in spurts - ANSWER- True

True or False: There are general stages and sequences of

development, but there is also an enormous variation between

children - ANSWER- True

Changes in body shape and proportion, includes changes in

weight, height, visual perception, hearing, etc. - ANSWERPhysical health

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Refers to the child's intellectual or mental abilities. Involves

finding, processing and organizing information, and using it

appropriately - ANSWER- Cognitive development and general

knowledge

True or False: Developmental skills are acquired in a logical

sequence - ANSWER- True

Culture influences are important, it is made up of all the factors

in an environment that are accepted by the group as the norm.

Culture includes: - ANSWER- Attitudes, values and beliefs,

laws, ways of doing things

Culture includes ideas about: - ANSWER- ways to relate to

one's elders, behavior between boys and girls, roles of men and

women, child rearing practices such as discipline, toilet training,

feeding, and bathing

Refers to a child's abilities to express himself verbally and

receive and understand the verbal communication of others. It

involves a child's ability to learn vocabulary and grammar, and

includes reading and writing: - ANSWER- Language and

communication

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A broad area that focuses on how children feel about themselves

and their relationships with others. It refers to children's

individual behaviors and responses to play and work activites,

attachments to parents and caregivers, and relationships with

siblings and friends: - ANSWER- Social and emotional

development

Refers to how skills and knowledge are acquired through three

qualities of eagerness and curiosity; persistence; creativity and

problem solving: - ANSWER- Approaches to learning

True or False: subjective information on an observation is open

to interpretation and is not useful for describing behavior -

ANSWER- True

When observing, the caregiver should know what to expect and

observe the child over a short OR long period of time? -

ANSWER- Long

Short, factual narrative descriptions of a child's behavior. These

records should be factual and should not include judgments: -

ANSWER- Anecdotal records

Records that during a specfiied period of time, the person who is

observing the child writes everything the child does and