GACE Birth through Kindergarten
Theories | Questions and correct
answers | Latest version
2024/2025
Who was the founding father of psychoanalysis, a method for treating mental illness and also a
theory which explains human behavior? - ANSWER -Sigmund Freud
At what stage does children at 18 months-3 years are learning muscular control? - ANSWER
Autonomy vs. Shame and Self-Doubt
Babies develop which Erik Erikson's developmental stage? - ANSWER -Trust vs. Mistrust
Preschoolers are exploring the environmental further commensurately with their increasing
physical/motor, cognitive, emotional and social skills in which developmental stage? - ANSWER
Initiative vs. Guilt
Who developed a cognitive theory of moral development, based upon and expanding the concepts
of morality? - ANSWER -Lawerence Kohlberg
Who identified the four basic family relationship patterns with what he called the Nuclear Family
Emotional System? - ANSWER -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? - ANSWER -Murray Bowen
Who invented the original concept and practice of Kindergarten? - ANSWER -Fredrich Froebel
According to the theory of emergent literacy even infants encounter what? - ANSWER -Written
Lauguage
Which psychologist developed the primary theory of social learning? - ANSWER -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?
- ANSWER -Carl Roger's Theory
Who created the social or observational theory? - ANSWER -Bandura
Which theorists discovered learning and constructivism? - ANSWER -Bruner
How many stages of human development does Erikson have? - ANSWER -8 stages of human
development
What are hierarchy needs? - ANSWER -Physiological, Safety, Belonging, Esteem, Self-actualization
The zone of proximal development was discovered by whom? - ANSWER -Lev Vygotsty
A well-known behaviorist is - ANSWER -B.F. Skinner
Theories | Questions and correct
answers | Latest version
2024/2025
Who was the founding father of psychoanalysis, a method for treating mental illness and also a
theory which explains human behavior? - ANSWER -Sigmund Freud
At what stage does children at 18 months-3 years are learning muscular control? - ANSWER
Autonomy vs. Shame and Self-Doubt
Babies develop which Erik Erikson's developmental stage? - ANSWER -Trust vs. Mistrust
Preschoolers are exploring the environmental further commensurately with their increasing
physical/motor, cognitive, emotional and social skills in which developmental stage? - ANSWER
Initiative vs. Guilt
Who developed a cognitive theory of moral development, based upon and expanding the concepts
of morality? - ANSWER -Lawerence Kohlberg
Who identified the four basic family relationship patterns with what he called the Nuclear Family
Emotional System? - ANSWER -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? - ANSWER -Murray Bowen
Who invented the original concept and practice of Kindergarten? - ANSWER -Fredrich Froebel
According to the theory of emergent literacy even infants encounter what? - ANSWER -Written
Lauguage
Which psychologist developed the primary theory of social learning? - ANSWER -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?
- ANSWER -Carl Roger's Theory
Who created the social or observational theory? - ANSWER -Bandura
Which theorists discovered learning and constructivism? - ANSWER -Bruner
How many stages of human development does Erikson have? - ANSWER -8 stages of human
development
What are hierarchy needs? - ANSWER -Physiological, Safety, Belonging, Esteem, Self-actualization
The zone of proximal development was discovered by whom? - ANSWER -Lev Vygotsty
A well-known behaviorist is - ANSWER -B.F. Skinner
