GACE Birth through Kindergarten Theories Test Questions and Answers Graded A+

Who was the founding father of psychoanalysis, a method for treating mental illness and also a theory which explains human behavior? - Sigmund Freud At what stage does children at 18 months-3 years are learning muscular control? - Autonomy vs. Shame and Self-Doubt Babies develop which Erik Erikson's developmental stage? - Trust vs. Mistrust Preschoolers are exploring the environmental further commensurately with their increasing physical/motor, cognitive, emotional and social skills in which developmental stage? - Initiative vs. Guilt Who developed a cognitive theory of moral development, based upon and expanding the concepts of morality? - Lawerence Kohlberg Who identified the four basic family relationship patterns with what he called the Nuclear Family Emotional System? - Murray Bowen When parents worry overly that something is wrong with one child, they may see everything the child does as proof of that worry by which social development theorist? - Murray Bowen Who invented the original concept and practice of Kindergarten? - Fredrich Froebel According to the theory of emergent literacy even infants encounter what? - Written Lauguage Which psychologist developed the primary theory of social learning? - Alfred Bandura While babies usually receives care based on need, as they grow older, adults establish conditions of worth. For example, children get desert if they finish dinner; this behavior is caused by who's theory? - Carl Roger's Theory Who created the social or observational theory? - Bandura Which theorists discovered learning and constructivism? - Bruner