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Social Studies, Other
10th -
12thgrade
Health and Social Care Unit 1 Theories
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- 1. Multiple Choice
What theory is Bowlby known for?
Attachment Theory - Having a strong connection to a primary caregiver is critical to personal development.
System Theory - Structure and support must be provided in all Community Circles.
Humanism - Using positive, unconditional regard can help an individual find their best self.
Positive Psychology - Change experiences by having positive thoughts (gratitude journal).
- 2. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following psychologists developed the Strange Situation to identify various types of attachment between infants and mothers:KohlbergEriksonAinsworthPiaget
- 3. Multiple Choice
Identify Mary Ainsworth’s strange situation:
A strange situation is the study of language development.
The strange situation is a method used to observe a child’s attachment to their caregiver.
The strange situation was a method used to observe a child’s imprinting.
A strange situation occurs when children are adopted from deprived environments.
- 4. Multiple Choice
According to Ainsworth (1978), what are the categories of infant attachment behaviour?
avoidant, ambivalent and secure
avoidance, insecurity and resistance
avoidance behaviours and happy behaviours
insecure resistant, insecurely detached and avoidant
- 5. Multiple Choice
Choose which type of attachment is developed when a child is emotionally and physically independent from the caregiver and they do not seek out the caregiver when distressed:
Secure
Avoidant
Ambivalent
- 6. Multiple ChoiceAinsworth placed her types of attachment into two distinct categories, what were these?Anxious and astuteSecure and insecureStable and shakyTentative and trusting
- 7. Multiple ChoiceAn infant that is calmed quickly and easily on reunion is displaying signs of which type of attachment?Insecure-avoidantInsecure-disorganisedInsecure-resistantSecure
- 8. Multiple Choice
An infant that alternates between wanting the mother and then pushes her away on reunion is displaying signs of which type of attachment?
Insecure
Avoidant
Ambivalent
Secure
- 9. Multiple ChoiceThe experiences of Feral, or "wild" children, seem to prove the importance ofnaturenurtureintelligencegender identity
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is true of Bowlby's view on a critical period?
He did not believe there was a critical period at all
He believed that the critical period was the first few weeks of life
He believed there was a sensitive period of about 2 years, after which attachments were harder to form
- 11. Multiple Choice
Who devised the 4 stages of cognitive development?
Alfred Binet
Erik Erikson
Albert Bandura
Jean Piaget
- 12. Multiple Choice
Who devised the zone of proximal development?
Freud
Vygotsky
Ainsworth
Baumrind
Lorenz
- 13. Multiple Choice
Who conducted the Bobo doll experiment?
Kohlberg
Bandura
Baumrind
Piaget
- 14. Multiple Choice
What theory suggested that we learn behaviours by observing and imitating and by reward and punishment?
gender identity
object permanence
self concept
social learning theory
- 15. Multiple Choice
What does Chomsky believe?
Children are born without the predisposition to learn language
Children are born with predisposition to learn language
Children never understand language
- 16. Multiple Choice
True or false: according to Chomsky the human brain is ready to quickly acquire language.
True
False
- 17. Multiple ChoiceCindy understands her world primarily by grasping and sucking easily available objects. Cindy is clearly in Piaget's ________ stagepreoperationalconcrete operationalsensorimotorformal operational
- 18. Multiple ChoiceAccording to Piaget, during the formal operational stage people begin to:reason abstractlyadhere to social normsdistinguish between good and bad behaviorsbecome aware of the positive and negative consequences of their own behaviors
- 19. Multiple ChoiceAccording to Piaget, children come to understand that the volume of a substance remains constant despite changes in its shape during the ________ stage.sensorimotorpreoperationalconcrete operationalformal operational
- 20. Multiple ChoiceAn infant who has developed object permanence...is attached to specific objects, such as a blanket.will see all objects as being the same.knows that an object, such as a rattle, exists even if it is not in view.cries when a wanted object is taken away.
- 21. Multiple ChoiceFour-year-old Jennifer mistakenly believes that her mother would like to receive a toy doll as a Christmas present. This best illustrates Piaget's concept of:accommodationattachmentobject permanenceegocentricism
- 22. Multiple ChoiceThe cognitive ability to be able to recognize that quantities remain the same when two glasses of water are sitting beside each other, and one is poured into a taller glass.IrreversibilityCentrationConservationObject Permanence
- 23. Multiple ChoiceThe inability of young children to see the world through someone else's view is termed:CentrationIrreversibilityConservationEgocentrism
- 24. Multiple ChoicePeek-a-boo works on children in what stage?SensorimotorPreoperationalConcrete OperationalFormal Operational
- 25. Multiple ChoiceThe ability to use deductive logic, think abstractly and systematically solve problems emerges during the:Concrete Operational StageSensorimotor StageFormal Operational StagePreoperational State
- 26. Multiple ChoiceJane's mother has two crackers, both of equal size. She breaks one of the crackers up into four pieces. Jane says she wants the one with the most and immediately chooses the four pieces, even though the two amounts are equal. Jane's choice illustrates Piaget's concept of:AccommodationEgocentrismFalse beliefConservation
- 27. Multiple Choice
What does Piaget refer to as the "basic building blocks of thinking"?
Schemas
The stages of cognitive development
The organisation process
- 28. Multiple Choice
Select the two processes involved in adaptation:
Organization and accomodation
Equilibration and assimilation
Assimilation and accomodation
- 29. Multiple Choice
A kid sees a wolf for the first time; he says to his mother: "Look mom, a big dog!" What process of adaptation was used here?
Accomodation
Assimilation
- 30. Multiple Choice
The mother replies: "No, that's a wolf, it's not the same as a dog." The mother knows this because she has seen wolves many times before and knows the difference. What process of adaptation is seen here?
Assimilation
Accomodation
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