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THEORIES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1. Child development theories focus on:

a)

emotional development

b)

explaining how children change and grow

c)

emotional and cognitive growth

d)

social and emotional children process

2.

2. Some major development theories are: (select three)

a)

sensory development

b)

emotional development

c)

Cognitive development

d)

Social learning development

e)

Attachment theory

3.

3. Who talks about cognitive development theory?

a)

Vygotsky

b)

Freud

c)

Bandura

d)

Piaget

4.

4. Who suggested in his theory that that parents, caregivers, peers and the culture at large were responsible for developing higher-order functions.

a)

Piaget

b)

Bandura

c)

Vygotsky

d)

Freud

5.

5. Piaget proposed a theory of cognitive development to account for the steps and sequence of children's intellectual development.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

6. In the pre-operational stage:

a)

infant's knowledge of the world is limited to his or her sensory perceptions and motor activities

b)

Children begin thinking logically about concrete events

c)

children do not yet understand concrete logic

d)

people develop the ability to think about abstract concepts

7.

7. The zone of proximal development is:

a)

it´s what we an do on our own

b)

it is an step in the emotional development

c)

represents we can we do with the help with an adult

d)

none

8.

8. "A teaching method that helps students learn more by working with a teacher or a more advanced student to achieve their learning goals." This is the definition of:

a)

formal- operational stage

b)

scaffolding

c)

sensorimotor stage

d)

concrete-operational stage

9.

9. Piaget proposed in his theory:

a)

three stages

b)

four stages

c)

two stages

d)

five stages

10.

10. "Children think differently than adults." It is an idea of:

a)

Bandura´s theory

b)

Piaget´s theory

c)

Vygotsky´s theory

d)

Freud´s theory