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Human Development Theories

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who presented a model emphasizing the challenges and tasks presented across one's lifespan as key to understanding human development?

a)

Erikson

b)

Piaget

c)

Kohlberg

d)

Vygotsky

2.

Who employed the construction of schema, assimilation, accommodation and equilibration in their theory?

a)

Vygotsky

b)

Piaget

c)

Kohlberg

d)

Erikson

3.

Who emphasized the role of culture in promoting certain types of activities?

a)

Piaget

b)

Vygotsky

c)

Erikson

d)

Kohlberg

4.

Who strongly emphasized the stages of development (sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operational and formal operational)?

a)

Piaget

b)

Vygotsky

c)

Erikson

d)

Kohlberg

5.

Who believed that human development is the result of interactions between people and their social environment?

a)

Kohlberg

b)

Erikson

c)

PIaget

d)

Vygotsky

6.

"Learning precedes development" supports whose theory?

a)

Piaget

b)

Vygotsky

c)

Erikson

d)

Kohlberg

7.

Who stated that we progress through three levels of moral thinking that build on our cognitive development?

a)

Kohlberg

b)

Vygotsky

c)

Piaget

d)

Erikson

8.

Whose theory includes stages in thinking about right and wrong that everyone goes through as one grows up?

a)

Piaget

b)

Kohlberg

c)

Erikson

d)

Vygotsky

9.

Preconventional, Conventional and Postconventional levels are present in whose theory?

a)

PIaget

b)

Vygotsky

c)

Erikson

d)

Kohlberg

10.

Who believed humans pass through stages of development with each presenting the individual with a unique developmental task or crisis to resolve?

a)

Erikson

b)

Piaget

c)

Kohlberg

d)

Vygotsky

11.

Lawrence Kohlberg based his refined theory on whose work?

a)

Piaget

b)

Vygotsky

c)

Erikson

d)

Freud

12.

Who supported the idea that a more knowledgeable person is needed in order for someone to learn?

a)

Vygotsky

b)

Piaget

c)

Erikson

d)

Kolhberg

13.

Who believed in the Zone of Proximal Development (between what a learner can and cannot do, with support)?

a)

Piaget

b)

Vygotsky

c)

Erikson

d)

Kohlberg

14.

Who believed that personality development occurred in five stages, in which the ego and superego developed?

a)

Piaget

b)

Freud

c)

Kohlberg

d)

Erikson

15.

Erik Erikson based his theory on the groundwork of whose work?

a)

Vygotsky

b)

Piaget

c)

Freud

d)

Bandura