What is child neglect?
What will be an ideal response?
Child neglect is a type of child maltreatment that is characterized by a failure to provide for the child's basic needs. Neglect can be physical (abandonment, for example), educational (allowing chronic truancy, for example), or emotional (marked inattention to the child's needs, for example). Child neglect is by far the most common form of child maltreatment.
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A. Psychoanalytic theory B. Cognitive value theory C. Activation-synthesis theory D. Behavioral theory
Teachers can greatly affect all of the following EXCEPT the student's
a. interest and motivation. b. academics. c. proxemics. d. creativity.
Which would a 3-year-old think is the worst moral violation?
A. stealing a cookie from a friend's lunch B. chewing with the mouth open C. running into the street when told not to D. getting out of bed and playing with toys after bedtime
Monica's son, Joseph, hit another child at his school. When Monica was summoned by the principal, her defence was that Joseph had merely engaged in some instrumental aggression, which is normal at this stage of childhood. Which of the following factors, if true, would strengthen her argument?
A. Joseph is 2-1/2 years old. B. Joseph is in middle childhood. C. Joseph did not hit the boy during social play. D. Joseph hit the boy because the boy had teased him.