Question: This theorist constructed his theory of evolution after joining an expedition to distant parts of the world, where he observed infinite variation among plant and animal species. What he theorized interfered with the religious belief of the time, so he waited 17 years to publish his findings.
Answer Options:
Charles Darwin
Benjamin Spock
Arnold Gesell
Erik Erikson
Answer: Charles Darwin
Question: ____ is generally regarded as the founder of the child study movement.
Answer Options:
Charles Darwin
John Locke
G. Stanley Hall
Sigmund Freud
Answer: G. Stanley Hall
Question: If one individual has influenced the contemporary field of child development more than any other, it is ______.
Answer Options:
Sigmund Freud
Erik Erikson
B. F. Skinner
Jean Piaget
Answer: Jean Piaget
Question: This theorist was a student of Freud’s, but he differed with Freud in that he recognized the lifespan nature of development. He was born to an unmarried mother, scandalous at the time, and looked different from his peers. He was nicknamed the “goy” (non-Jew) by his Jewish peers. He proposed a theory fraught with crises.
Answer Options:
Erik Erikson
Sigmund Freud
B. F. Skinner
Benjamin Spock
Answer: Erik Erikson
Question: At each stage of Erikson’s proposed theory, individuals are faced with a social-emotional crisis they must resolve.
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True
False
Answer: True
Question: Vygotsky proposed that cognitive development should be viewed within the context of only the physical world.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: The cognitive awareness that objects and people continue to exist even when they are no longer seen or heard is called object permanence.
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True
False
Answer: True
Question: Scaffolding is the process of providing assistance to learners within their ZPD (Zone of Proximal Development).
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: According to this theorist, the child is a noble savage. He had five children, whom he placed in an orphanage because he could not afford to feed them.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Bowlby
Arnold Gesell
B. F. Skinner
Answer: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Question: According to this theorist, social interaction is necessary for children to acquire the ways of thinking and behaving that make up a community’s culture. He died at the young age of 38.
Answer Options:
John Bowlby
Erik Erikson
G. Stanley Hall
Lev Vygotsky
Answer: Lev Vygotsky
Question: In a very fancy smancy restaurant, there is a lounge where diners waiting for a table sit. The restaurant, in order to accommodate their waiting customers comfortably and make the wait pleasant, must comply with which of the following?
State and federal civil rights laws regarding discrimination in public accommodations.
Local entertainment laws because music is played.
Health and safety codes because food is served.
All of the above.
Answer: All of the above.
Question: Parasympathetic functions include ______.
Answer Options:
A stimulation of heart rate and force of contraction
Mobilizing storage energy reserves
Lens accommodation for close vision
Allowing the body to cope with an external threat
Answer: Lens accommodation for close vision
Question: When exposed to new information, individuals attempt to place the incoming information into existing schemas by adapting or reconstructing them, which is called accommodation.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: This theorist’s bioecological theory views the child as developing within a complex system of relationships affected by multiple levels of the surrounding environment. He was the co-founder of Head Start.
Answer Options:
Benjamin Spock
Jean Piaget
Urie Bronfenbrenner
Lev Vygotsky
Answer: Urie Bronfenbrenner
Question: Piaget’s theory of cognitive development is considered constructivist because learners are active participants in the construction of their own knowledge.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: This theorist applied ethological theory to understanding the human caregiver-infant relationship. He fought for mothers and children to remain together when the child was hospitalized.
Answer Options:
Jean Piaget
John Bowlby
G. Stanley Hall
Urie Bronfenbrenner
Answer: John Bowlby
Question: Skinner felt that the environment is the primary factor that contributes to learning.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True