Chapter 1 Learning Outcome Quizzes Learning Outcome 1.1: Define early childhood development and explain how qualitative development is different from quantitative development. [Q1] According to the textbook, which of the following statements best defines early childhood development? 1. The increase in knowledge and number of skills of young children over the first 5 years of life 2. The process of qualitative and quantitative changes in children from birth to age 8 [correct] 3. The increase in sensorimotor intelligence between ages 3 and 9 4. The fixed order of acquiring skills and knowledge at each age from birth to age 7 [Feedback for Answer Choice 1] This statement suggests that children simply acquire greater knowledge and abilities as they age—a purely quantitative view—and does not address qualitative changes. Also, early childhood is defined as birth to age 8 in the book. [Feedback for Correct Answer 2] Children do not simply become larger or obtain more knowledge as they develop. As they develop, they become qualitatively different people, thinking and behaving in uniquely different ways. [Feedback for Answer Choice 3] This statement addresses only one kind of intelligence that occurs in infancy. It does not include other domains, such as physical or social development, or types of thinking that appear after infancy