Human Development
Education
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Question 1
Multiple Choice
10 points
What is a major issue pertaining to the nature-nurture controversy?
A.What is a major issue pertaining to the nature-nurture controversy?
B.Young children demonstrate patterns of behavior or thinking, called schemes, which older children and adults also use in dealing with objects in the world.
C.Is development predetermined at birth, by hereditary factors, or does experience and other environmental factors affect it?
Question 2
Multiple Choice
10 points
According to Piaget, planned problem solving moves from trial and error to a planned approach at the end of what stage of development?
A.Sensorimotor
B.Formal operations
C.Concrete operational
Question 3
Multiple Choice
10 points
How did Vygotsky view cognitive development?
A.He saw development as a sequence of learning stimulus-response associations.
B.He saw development as genetically predetermined.
C.He proposed that intellectual development can be understood only in terms of the historical and cultural contexts children experience
Question 4
Multiple Choice
10 points
Vygotsky differed from Piaget in that:
A.Piaget believed that learning precedes development.
B.Vygotsky’s theory suggests that learning precedes development.
C.Piaget believed that environmental stimuli contributed to development.
Question 5
Multiple Choice
10 points
When it came to asking children questions pertaining to moral development, Kohlberg, like Piaget, ___________.
A.was concerned not so much with the direction of the child’s answer as with the reasoning behind it.
B.was mainly concerned with the direction of the child's answer.
C.believed that cognitive structures were largely inherited.
Question 6
Multiple Choice
10 points
Erikson hypothesized that people pass through eight psychosocial stages in their lifetimes. What happens at each stage?
A.The person's family will have a formal "rite of passage" ritual at each of the eight stage
B.At each stage, there are crises or critical issues to be resolved.
C.At each stage, development does not stagnate.
Question 7
Multiple Choice
10 points
Vygotskian theory most directly supports cooperative learning strategies that are evidenced by
A.One student helping all others to learn
B.Students in competition
C.Students helping one another to learn
Question 8
Multiple Choice
10 points
The Zone of proximal development is the level of development
A.Just above where a student is presently functioning
B.Just below where the student is presently functioning
C.Just exactly where the student is presently functioning