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6. According to Lindon, 2010 Maturation is?
- Universal, sequential, impervious to environmental influence.
- Strongly influenced by the environment.
- A process determined by physical appearance.
- Identical for all individuals
7. What is Synaptogenesis?
- The storing of new information and consequential learning
- When new connections is formed between neurones
- Pruning-where connections that are repeatedly used become permanent while those that are not used begin to die.
- The strengthening of memory by creating various different connections to a memory
8. Lindon 2010 discusses that?
- The environment has little influence on children’s development
- The studies involving Bobo dolls have been deemed inaccurate
- Babies begin with unconditioned stimulus and responses however when new stimulus are introduced this changes to a conditioned stimulus and response.
- Behaviourism/learning theory places greater emphasis on Nature over Nurture
9. A Microsystem refers to?
- The child, nuclear family
- Matters inside the mind of a child
- Family, friends, extended family
- Government policy and laws
10. Bruner (1950s) believed that?
- Children are active learners needing first-hand experience, that children’s development is supported through scaffolding.
- Adults involved in the care of children have very little impact on development.
- That development is universal and sequential.
- Adults involved in the care of children have a significant impact on development
11. Who considered the environment cited by Lindon as ‘a set of nested structures, each inside the next, like a set of Russian Dolls’?
- Bruner
- Piaget
- Bronfenbrenner
- Vygotsky
12. The Biological/maturational theory of development proposes that?
- Development takes place as a result of instructions laid down in the genes controlled and exerted by hormones.
- Development takes place as a result of the influence of the environment on the growing child.
- The environment and genetics work in equal co-operation to determine the outcomes of a child’s development.
- Maturation is a process of self-regulation.
13. In Piaget’s stage theory what is the name of the stage children go through from the age of 0-2 years?
- Sensorimotor
- Preoperational
- Concrete operational
- Formal operational
14. DiFranza, Aligne and Weitzman 2004 state that?
- When the children of smoking and non-smoking mothers reach school age the effects of smoking on height and weight are evident.
- When the children of smoking and non-smoking mothers reach school age the effects of smoking on height and weight are minor.
- When the children of smoking and non-smoking mothers reach school age the effects of smoking on height and weight are not evident.
- At 3 years the brain is at 75% of its adult weight.
15. Negative reinforcement is what?
- The process of strengthening behaviour by removal of an unpleasant stimulus
- The process of strengthening behaviour by introducing an unpleasant stimulus
- The process of strengthening a desired behaviour through use of punishment
- The process of reducing a behaviour through use of punishment
16. Who devised the Maturational theory?
- Albert Bandura
- Jean Piaget
- Arnold Gesell
- Lev Vygotsky
17. What is the zone of proximal development?
- A range of aspects which allow for development.
- Rules regarding proximity which allow comfort ensuring learning can take place.
- Identified by Vygotsky- the gap between what a child can do alone and what it can do with help from others.
- Identified by Bruner- the gap between what a child can do alone and what it can do with help from others.
18. What are Piaget’s three sub processes related to schemas?
- Assimilation, Accommodation and Equilibration
- Adult, child and parent
- Retrieval, evaluation and storing
- Unoccupied, onlooker and solitary.
19. Which theorist was involved in the study with Bobo dolls and what theory is associated with it?
- Skinner-operant conditioning
- Vygotsky-zone of proximal development
- Bandura- Social learning theory involving modelling
- Pavlov-classical conditioning
20. Who believed that children actively seek to understand their environment rather than the environment shaping the child?
- Piaget
- Gesell
- Bruner
- Bronfenbrenner