Exam 2: Historical Perspectives and Guidance Theories

Today, early childhood experts have growing concerns that children are spending too much time"just being children" when they ought to be performing more structured activities.

​Match each definition to the corresponding term. -Friedrich Froebel​

Child care and guidance practices have not changed dramatically through the years.

The constructivist approach does not prepare a developmentally appropriate environment.

​Match each definition to the corresponding term.​ -Behaviorists​

Effective child guidance procedures require respectful interactions, authentic experiences, logicalconsequences, and intrinsic rewards.

How did the writings of Rousseau toward the end of the 18th century reflect a change in existingcultural perceptions of childhood?​

​Match each definition to the corresponding term.​ -Social constructivist view of human behavior​

What kinds of things influenced changing perceptions about child care and guidance practicesduring the 1900s?​

​Match each definition to the corresponding term. -Philosophy​

​Match each definition to the corresponding term. -Custodial care​

Vygotsky is remembered primarily for identifying what he called the ____________________.

A healthy infant can suffer terrible effects from failure to thrive syndrome.

Why are ethologists important in child guidance?​

​Match each definition to the corresponding term.​ -John Dewey​

Adults may have difficulty changing old habit patterns in dealing with children, but change ispossible with motivation and ____________________.

​Match each definition to the corresponding term.​ -Carl Rogers​

Adults rarely have difficulty changing old habit patterns in dealing with children once they knowthe habits are unproductive.

Piaget believed that children are little scientists who constantly create and test their own____________________ of the world.

​Match each definition to the corresponding term.​ -Constructivists​