ECD 105 Chapter 2 Practice Quiz

Which statement best describes John Dewey's approach to education?

• Education requires rigid, lecture-based lessons and recitation of memorized material

• Education provides children with the skills needed to be a source of free labor

• Education must engage with and expand experiences to be meaningful

• Education helps children learn to respect authority and to be compliant

Which theorist transformed early childhood education by creating learning materials or "gifts" that served as the engine to naturally drive learning in young children?

• Jean Piaget

• Urie Bronfenbrenner

• Lev Vygotsky

• Friedrick Frobel

What would adults and children living in an autocracy need to learn to fit into that society?

• blind obedience to a single person

• their place within society

• ways to function as part of a group

• how to critique prominent beliefs

Which of the following is an example of a guidance strategy?

• punishment

• extrinsic rewards

• logical consequences

• corporal punishment

How can early influences positively affect children's development of appropriate behavior?

• by making children be quiet in a classroom

• by fostering personal development and citizenship

• by encouraging submission to prevailing ideas

• by promoting adherence to social guidelines

How do maturationists view behavior and learning?

• Personality and intelligence come from both inborn cognitive structures and external experiences

• Environment is the primary determinant of human behavior

• Interactions with individuals and the materials within the environment influence how children learn

• Internal predisposition, physiological characteristics, or inherited traits account for the essential psychological makeup of a human being

Which of the following best describes developmentally appropriate practices?

• influenced by parents and grandparents

• influenced by teachers and administrators

• influenced by nature and nurture

• influenced by age and culture

According to the behaviorist approach, how is the infant's mind viewed?

• predisposition to achieve a specific level of cognitive development

• tabula rasa or empty slate ready to be taught

• programmed to grow into a preordained state of maturity

• unlimited potential without guarantees

Jevon and Maria provide an object to their students for performing specified behaviors. What are they using?

• intrinsic rewards

• creativity

• tokens

• goals

How do children learn according to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of development?

• through social interactions in their culture

• by acting on their environment

• emerges from within

• by environmental experiences