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DCF BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATION AND SCREENING (BOSR) NEWEST EXAM 2026 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 2026 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
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