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WorksheetsHistory of Child Development
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
What historian wrote about child development during the medieval time period?
Piaget
Aries
Watson
Freud
Which 2 psychologists introduced early philosophies of child development in the 18th century?
Watson and Bandura
Freud and Hall
Washburn and Shinn
Locke and Rousseau
Who wrote a book that argued the role of parenting, education, and environment are critical components of child development?
Lev Vygotsky
John Dewey
John Locke
Williams James
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?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean Piaget
Aries
John Watson
John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s contrasting theory of blank vs blank. What is the theory we are referring to?
Ying vs Yang
Nature vs nurture
Operant vs classical conditioning
Cognitive vs behavioral
This philosopher stated fathers should be constantly present in their son’s lives to direct their development.
James Darwin
BF Skinner
G Stanley Hall
John Locke
Which of the following is NOT one the things the “Baby Biographers” movement was criticized for?
Lack of comparison
Observer Bias
Lack of generalizability
Too many participants
G. Stanley Hall was
The first President of the US
American Psychological Association’s first president
President of APA journal club
President of child development
First person to get a Ph.D in psychology in the United States in 1878?
G. Stanley Hall
Sigmund Freud
Erik Erikson
John Bowlby
Who created Child Questionnaires in 1870?
Vygotsky
Bartholomai
Erikson
Hall
Whose research started the program “Child Study Movement”?
Sigmund Freud
John Watson
G. Stanley Hall
Williams James
Who introduced the psychoanalytic theory?
Sigmund Freud
Albert Bandura
Jean Piaget
G. Stanley Hall
This psychologist got his doctorate degree in medicine in 1881, and gained training by working as a clinician in a hospital for “hysterical” patients?
BF Skinner
Rousseau
Sigmund Freud
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?
Jean Piaget
Albert Bandura
BF Skinner
Sigmund Freud
What is the most popular branch of psychology during the early to mid-20th century?
Behaviorial
Cognitive
Evolutionary
Educational
John Watson believed that college did what to a person’s development?
Gave them many opportunities
Get you a high paying job
Influences others to get a higher education
Resulted in sloth and delaying adulthood
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?
John Dewey
John Watson
John Locke
John Bowlby
Watson believes emotions are reactions to events, and to change emotions one must?
Have different parents
Be more intelligent
Maximize positivity
Change their environment
Who developed an experiment to manipulate the fear of a 9 month old baby named Little Albert?
G. Stanley Hall
Albert Bandura
John Watson
Sigmund Freud
Similar to Freud, blank believed that emotional trauma was a result of parent’s poor choices. Who was the behaviorist?
B.F. Skinner
John Watson
Jacques Loeb
Albert Bandura
Which two people believed that a mother’s affection could damage a child?
Bandura and Skinner
Locke and Watson
Freud and Watson
Locke and Skinner
Who inspired B. F. Skinner to become a psychologist?
Watson and Pavlov
Piaget and Pavlov
Freud and Watson
Piaget and Vygotsky
Who is known for the widespread research of operant conditioning?
John Watson
Albert Bandura
Baby Biographers
B.F. Skinner
Who can operant conditioning be useful for when modifying children’s behavior?
Coaches and teachers
Parents and teachers
Students and teachers
Principals and counselors
Another way psychologists draw a distinction between development and learning is also known as?
Observing and understanding
Teaching and reviewing
Classical and theoretical conditioning
Classical and operant conditioning
Which behaviorist’s belief that children’s aggression was influenced by innate aggressive drives from violence on television?
Albert Bandura
BF Skinner
John Watson
Pavlov
What two psychologists were at the origin of Cognitive Developmental Psychology?
Skinner and Vygotsky
Piaget and Vygotsky
Pavlov and Piaget
Bandura and Skinner
How children’s mental processes of thinking, reasoning, memory and language develop is called blank psychology?
Social-emotional
Social
Cognitive
Child
What psychologist is at the center of origins of social-emotional development?
John Dewey and Erik Erikson
Erik Erikson and John Bowlby
Piaget and Vygotsky
John Bowlby and Sigmund Freud
What theory is used today, in the 21st century, for developmental Psychology?
Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory
Operant conditioning theory
Psychoanalysis theory
Nature vs Nurture theory
