EXAM 2 CDFS 211 QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED
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Three positions on the origin of intelligence Ans✓✓✓behaviorist,
maturationist, constructivist
In this philosophy of guidance, the environment is the primary
determinant of human behavior. Ans✓✓✓Behaviorism
Bahaviorists Ans✓✓✓Environment is the primary determinant of
human behavior.
-Learning comes from outside the learner.
-Development of appropriate behavior is the responsibility of the adult.
The adult:
1. Identifies behavior goals
2. Observes the child
3. Monitors behaviors
4. Reinforces behaviors with tokens
5. Maneuvers the child's environment to modify behavior.
Maturationist Ans✓✓✓-Learning emerges from the child.
-Human begins are born to be whatever they become.
-External environment has no control of developmental outcomes
-Role of adult: facilitator
,Guidance: adult steps in to help child understand the situation, and the
child resolves the problem as independently as possible.
-Development of behavior is child-directed process.
Constructivists Ans✓✓✓-Hold the Piagetian view that: children
construct their own learning from innate cognitive and external
experiences.
-The child is born to learn.
-However, without appropriate support from environment, no learning
can take place.
-High quality early experiences.
-Brain uses information from early sensory experiences.
-Child guidance is a waltz; give and take: leading and following between
adult and child.
Autocracy Ans✓✓✓Blind obedience; dictator demanding submission
Anarchy Ans✓✓✓Everyone follow his or her own desires and interests.
Democracy Ans✓✓✓Responsible citizens, effective self-governance,
active participation
Why is it important to know the history and theories of ECE?
Ans✓✓✓1. Rebirth of great ideas... timeless
2. Build meaningful lives for children and families... overcome
, 3. Implement current practice... whole child
4. Theories attempt to explain how children grow, develop, and learn.
5. Communicate with clarity... articulate
6. Evaluate learning... knowing ages and stages
7. Provide guidance... developing programs and curriculum.
Theory Ans✓✓✓Statement of principles and ideas that attempt to
explain events and how things happen.
John Locke Ans✓✓✓Behaviorism
=Children are born as blank state (tabula rasa)
=Environment and experience from the mind
=children develop in response to NURTING
=Influence on today's practices: Differences in behavior, achievement,
and learning are due to the child's context.
Jan-Jacque Rousseau Ans✓✓✓Maturationism
="God makes all things good: man meddles with them and they become
evil" -EMILE
=Encourage growth without interference
=Nature of children unfolds as a result of development
=Influence on today's practices: Developmentally appropriate practice
Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel Ans✓✓✓Maturationism
ANSWERS (100% CORRECT ANSWERS) /ALREADY GRADED
Three positions on the origin of intelligence Ans✓✓✓behaviorist,
maturationist, constructivist
In this philosophy of guidance, the environment is the primary
determinant of human behavior. Ans✓✓✓Behaviorism
Bahaviorists Ans✓✓✓Environment is the primary determinant of
human behavior.
-Learning comes from outside the learner.
-Development of appropriate behavior is the responsibility of the adult.
The adult:
1. Identifies behavior goals
2. Observes the child
3. Monitors behaviors
4. Reinforces behaviors with tokens
5. Maneuvers the child's environment to modify behavior.
Maturationist Ans✓✓✓-Learning emerges from the child.
-Human begins are born to be whatever they become.
-External environment has no control of developmental outcomes
-Role of adult: facilitator
,Guidance: adult steps in to help child understand the situation, and the
child resolves the problem as independently as possible.
-Development of behavior is child-directed process.
Constructivists Ans✓✓✓-Hold the Piagetian view that: children
construct their own learning from innate cognitive and external
experiences.
-The child is born to learn.
-However, without appropriate support from environment, no learning
can take place.
-High quality early experiences.
-Brain uses information from early sensory experiences.
-Child guidance is a waltz; give and take: leading and following between
adult and child.
Autocracy Ans✓✓✓Blind obedience; dictator demanding submission
Anarchy Ans✓✓✓Everyone follow his or her own desires and interests.
Democracy Ans✓✓✓Responsible citizens, effective self-governance,
active participation
Why is it important to know the history and theories of ECE?
Ans✓✓✓1. Rebirth of great ideas... timeless
2. Build meaningful lives for children and families... overcome
, 3. Implement current practice... whole child
4. Theories attempt to explain how children grow, develop, and learn.
5. Communicate with clarity... articulate
6. Evaluate learning... knowing ages and stages
7. Provide guidance... developing programs and curriculum.
Theory Ans✓✓✓Statement of principles and ideas that attempt to
explain events and how things happen.
John Locke Ans✓✓✓Behaviorism
=Children are born as blank state (tabula rasa)
=Environment and experience from the mind
=children develop in response to NURTING
=Influence on today's practices: Differences in behavior, achievement,
and learning are due to the child's context.
Jan-Jacque Rousseau Ans✓✓✓Maturationism
="God makes all things good: man meddles with them and they become
evil" -EMILE
=Encourage growth without interference
=Nature of children unfolds as a result of development
=Influence on today's practices: Developmentally appropriate practice
Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel Ans✓✓✓Maturationism
