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History of Child Development

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What historian wrote about child development during the medieval time period?

a)

Piaget

b)

Aries

c)

Watson

d)

Freud

2.

Which 2 psychologists introduced early philosophies of child development in the 18th century?

a)

Watson and Bandura

b)

Freud and Hall

c)

Washburn and Shinn

d)

Locke and Rousseau

3.

Who wrote a book that argued the role of parenting, education, and environment are critical components of child development?

a)

Lev Vygotsky

b)

John Dewey

c)

John Locke

d)

Williams James

4.

In contrast to John Locke’s theory, who suggested parents giving their children a formal education might further damage the child’s natural born traits?

a)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

b)

Jean Piaget

c)

Aries

d)

John Watson

5.

John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s contrasting theory of blank vs blank. What is the theory we are referring to?

a)

Ying vs Yang

b)

Nature vs nurture

c)

Operant vs classical conditioning

d)

Cognitive vs behavioral

6.

This philosopher stated fathers should be constantly present in their son’s lives to direct their development.

a)

James Darwin

b)

BF Skinner

c)

G Stanley Hall

d)

John Locke

7.

Which of the following is NOT one the things the “Baby Biographers” movement was criticized for?

a)

Lack of comparison

b)

Observer Bias

c)

Lack of generalizability

d)

Too many participants

8.

G. Stanley Hall was

a)

The first President of the US

b)

American Psychological Association’s first president

c)

President of APA journal club

d)

President of child development

9.

First person to get a Ph.D in psychology in the United States in 1878?

a)

G. Stanley Hall

b)

Sigmund Freud

c)

Erik Erikson

d)

John Bowlby

10.

Who created Child Questionnaires in 1870?

a)

Vygotsky

b)

Bartholomai

c)

Erikson

d)

Hall

11.

Whose research started the program “Child Study Movement”?

a)

Sigmund Freud

b)

John Watson

c)

G. Stanley Hall

d)

Williams James

12.

Who introduced the psychoanalytic theory?

a)

Sigmund Freud

b)

Albert Bandura

c)

Jean Piaget

d)

G. Stanley Hall

13.

This psychologist got his doctorate degree in medicine in 1881, and gained training by working as a clinician in a hospital for “hysterical” patients?

a)

BF Skinner

b)

Rousseau

c)

Sigmund Freud

14.

Who popularized the idea that parents had a critical role in children’s development and that unresolved issues in childhood had a large impact on developing personality?

a)

Jean Piaget

b)

Albert Bandura

c)

BF Skinner

d)

Sigmund Freud

15.

What is the most popular branch of psychology during the early to mid-20th century?

a)

Behaviorial

b)

Cognitive

c)

Evolutionary

d)

Educational

16.

John Watson believed that college did what to a person’s development?

a)

Gave them many opportunities

b)

Get you a high paying job

c)

Influences others to get a higher education

d)

Resulted in sloth and delaying adulthood

17.

Who proposed that one can only know what another person is thinking by examining his or her behavior, not by examining his or her thoughts or emotions?

a)

John Dewey

b)

John Watson

c)

John Locke

d)

John Bowlby

18.

Watson believes emotions are reactions to events, and to change emotions one must?

a)

Have different parents

b)

Be more intelligent

c)

Maximize positivity

d)

Change their environment

19.

Who developed an experiment to manipulate the fear of a 9 month old baby named Little Albert?

a)

G. Stanley Hall

b)

Albert Bandura

c)

John Watson

d)

Sigmund Freud

20.

Similar to Freud, blank believed that emotional trauma was a result of parent’s poor choices. Who was the behaviorist?

a)

B.F. Skinner

b)

John Watson

c)

Jacques Loeb

d)

Albert Bandura

21.

Which two people believed that a mother’s affection could damage a child?

a)

Bandura and Skinner

b)

Locke and Watson

c)

Freud and Watson

d)

Locke and Skinner

22.

Who inspired B. F. Skinner to become a psychologist?

a)

Watson and Pavlov

b)

Piaget and Pavlov

c)

Freud and Watson

d)

Piaget and Vygotsky

23.

Who is known for the widespread research of operant conditioning?

a)

John Watson

b)

Albert Bandura

c)

Baby Biographers

d)

B.F. Skinner

24.

Who can operant conditioning be useful for when modifying children’s behavior?

a)

Coaches and teachers

b)

Parents and teachers

c)

Students and teachers

d)

Principals and counselors

25.

Another way psychologists draw a distinction between development and learning is also known as?

a)

Observing and understanding

b)

Teaching and reviewing

c)

Classical and theoretical conditioning

d)

Classical and operant conditioning

26.

Which behaviorist’s belief that children’s aggression was influenced by innate aggressive drives from violence on television?

a)

Albert Bandura

b)

BF Skinner

c)

John Watson

d)

Pavlov

27.

What two psychologists were at the origin of Cognitive Developmental Psychology?

a)

Skinner and Vygotsky

b)

Piaget and Vygotsky

c)

Pavlov and Piaget

d)

Bandura and Skinner

28.

How children’s mental processes of thinking, reasoning, memory and language develop is called blank psychology?

a)

Social-emotional

b)

Social

c)

Cognitive

d)

Child

29.

What psychologist is at the center of origins of social-emotional development?

a)

John Dewey and Erik Erikson

b)

Erik Erikson and John Bowlby

c)

Piaget and Vygotsky

d)

John Bowlby and Sigmund Freud

30.

What theory is used today, in the 21st century, for developmental Psychology?

a)

Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory

b)

Operant conditioning theory

c)

Psychoanalysis theory

d)

Nature vs Nurture theory