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WorksheetsChild Development Theorists
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which theorist wrote that social contact is essential to intellectual development.
a)
Freud
b)
Piaget
c)
Vygotsky
d)
Bandera
2.
Which theorist believed that personality develops, through a series of stages. Experiences in childhood profoundly affect adult life.
a)
Freud
b)
Piaget
c)
Vygotsky
d)
Bronfenbrenner
3.
Which theorist outlined the layers of development through the Ecological Systems Theory (Microsystem, Mesosystem, Exosystem, Macrosystem)?
a)
Freud
b)
Piaget
c)
Vygotsky
d)
Bronfenbrenner
4.
Which theorist was the first to study children scientifically?
a)
Freud
b)
Piaget
c)
Vygotsky
d)
Bronfenbrenner
5.
Which theorist thought that each stage of development includes a unique psychological crisis. If the crisis is met in a positive way, the individual develops normally?
a)
Vygotsky
b)
Erickson
c)
Bronfenbrenner
d)
Bandura
6.
Which theorist used a rat in a box to study their theory?
a)
Bronfenbrenner
b)
Bandura
c)
Erickson
d)
Skinner
7.
Which theorist argued that when a child’s actions have positive results, they will be repeated. Negative results will make actions stop.
a)
Bronfenbrenner
b)
Bandura
c)
Erickson
d)
Skinner
8.
Which theorist believed that personality develops, through a series of stages. Experiences in childhood profoundly affect adult life.
a)
Freud
b)
Bandura
c)
Vygotsky
d)
Skinner
9.
Blood type, hair color, and skin color are all examples of what type on influence on our development?
a)
Nature
b)
Nurture
10.
Your friends, where you live, and your school are all examples of what type on influence on our development?
a)
Nature
b)
Nurture
11.
Which theorist said that children learn by imitating others.
a)
Bronfenbrenner
b)
Bandura
c)
Erickson
d)
Skinner
12.
Whose theory states:
Playing and hands-on discovery are key to development
a)
Gardner
b)
Erikson
c)
Montessori
d)
Maslow
13.
Whose theory states:
Positive and negative reinforcement are most effective.
a)
Piaget
b)
Gardner
c)
Bandura
d)
Skinner
14.
Whose theory states:
There are 8 areas of intelligence that each person possesses at different levels.
a)
Piaget
b)
Gardner
c)
Bandura
d)
Skinner
15.
Whose theory states:
Children learn through imitation
a)
Bandura
b)
Piaget
c)
Montessori
d)
Bronfenbrenner
16.
Whose theory states:
Personality develops as the child goes through 8 crises and has a negative or positive experiences
a)
Bronfenbrenner
b)
Erikson
c)
Montessori
d)
Piaget
17.
Whose theory states:
There are four stages of intellectual development
a)
Piaget
b)
Erikson
c)
Vygotsky
d)
Bronfenbrenner
18.
Who developed a psychoanalytic personality theory which involved the id, ego and superego?
a)
B.F. Skinner
b)
Erik Erikson
c)
Sigmund Freud
d)
William Golding
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