​Match Each Definition to the Corresponding Term

question 20

Multiple Choice

​Match each definition to the corresponding term.
-Urie Bronfenbrenner​

• A)Parental guidance, teaching effectiveness, television, and other external influences
• B)Heredity, inborn traits, and inner motivation
• C)Studied the development of intelligence in children and proposed a theory based on four predetermined stages of mental growth
• D)Developed a bioecological model to explain expanding worries about school failure and behavioral, social, and emotional problems in children
• E)Empty slate
• F)Special stickers or objects given to children for performing specified behaviors that are then exchanged at prearranged times for their choice activities or items from a menu of rewards
• G)In behavior modification, this means to change specific behaviors in the child through external reinforcement of some kind.
• H)Realized that play was the engine that naturally drove learning in young children; set about finding ways to guide children’s natural desire to play and to help them find additional meaning in their play
• I)Affects a person’s perception of children, how they learn, what their intentions are, and why they behave as they do
• J)Believed human beings were capable of working cooperatively, living together peacefully, striving for self-improvement and self-fulfillment, and contributing to the common welfare of the community
• K)Process by which adults help children learn appropriate ways to function as part of a group
• L)Took the abstract theories of Carl Rogers and developed a systematic set of guidelines for effective interpersonal skills
• M)Identified what he called the “zone of proximal educational development”; believed that children develop by exposure to skills, words, concepts, and tasks that are a little beyond their ability but within a “zone” of possible achievement
• N)Snug binding of infants in strips of cloth or blankets
• O)Focus on meeting minimal needs for health and safety
• P)Aimed at controlling children’s behaviors, often by the use of punishment
• Q)Held the view that the hope for world peace lay in a new education for young children
• R)Modified Carkhuff’s work further to create an effective system for solving classroom management problems and motivating children to change their inappropriate behaviors

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Definitions:

Personality Structure

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Personality Traits

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Statistical Tests

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