WorksheetsEarly Childhood Theories and Development
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 17mins
This theorist’s theory included 8 stages some include trust vs. mistrust and autonomy vs. shame and guilt
Piaget
Vygotsky
Gardner
Erikson
This theorist’s theory stated that there are different kinds of learners such as naturalists, kinesthetic, linguistic and logical
Maslow
Piaget
Gardner
Vygotsky
Theorist who believed children built knowledge through exploration with hands on activities
Vygotsky
Piaget
Gardner
Maslow
Gardner
Erikson
Kohlberg
Vygotsky
Your friend's baby brother, Matt, loves to play with his pet cat. When he sees a puppy, he points and calls it ''mi mi," which is what he calls his cat. Matt is demonstrating Piaget's process of:
conservation
cognition
object permanence
assimilation
Gardner
Vygotsky
Piaget
Erikson
He believed that children's mental, language, and social development is supported and enhanced through SOCIAL interaction.
Erikson
Bronfenbrenner
Vygotsky
Gardner
The range of tasks that are too difficult to master alone but can be learned with help.
Zone of proximal development
Scaffolding
Inter-subjectivity
Operant conditioning
If there are two glasses of water with equal amounts, one glass taller in height and one that is wider, a child in the preoperational period will conclude that
the taller one has more in quantity
the wider one has more in quanitity
Children from 3 to 6 years of age are called.....
infants
preschoolers
toddlers
teens
Development proceeds from the head downward according to the _____________________ principle.
proximodistal
cognitive
cephalocaudal
maturation
High levels of _________ can threaten healthy brain development.
protein
cortisol
neurons
insulin
________ principle states that development proceeds from the center of the body outward.
Cephalocaudal
Maturation
Cognitive
Proximodistal
Key times for brain synapses to link easily and efficiently are called (a) .
Children from age one up to three years of age are called (a) .
The process of adding new information to already existing information is called __________.
assimilation
schemata
Discussion children have with themselves when they "think out loud" as a means of guidance and direction; also referred to as self-talk.
Zone of Proximal Development
Schemata
private speech
conversation
A process in which assistance is provided by adult or another child to support a child’s learning. The support moves the child from his current developmental level to a higher one.
concrete operations
schenata
scaffolding
assimilation
accomodation
According to Gardner, people with this intelligence as their strongest will have well developed vocabularies.
Verbal-Linguistic
Logical-Mathematical
Bodily-Kinesthetic
Musical-Rhythmic
Motor development begins at birth.
True
False
Piaget believed that children learned best by doing.
False
True
