Test questions with answers on the history of developmental psychology

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tests with answers on the topic History of Developmental Psychology

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1. One of the first scholars to investigate the problem of the genesis of the psyche was the well-known philosopher:

A) Democritus	B) Socrates
C) Heraclitus	D) Plato

2. Who is credited with the famous saying «Man is the measure of all things»:

A) Democritus	B) Protagoras
C) Epicurus	D) Sophocles

3. “Education should teach a person to speak well, think well and act well”. This statement was formulated by:

A) Socrates	B) Plato
C) Democritus	D) Aristotle.

4. Which philosopher held that psychic development is self-development, the self-unfolding of innate abilities:

A) Socrates	B) Xenophon
C) Aristotle	D) Heraclitus

5. Which scholar of the Hellenistic period held that speed of information processing, flexibility of thinking and capacity for creativity are not signs of giftedness:

A) Aristotle	B) Plato
C) Quintilian	D) Epicurus

6. Which scholar was among the first to oppose scholastic teaching methods based on the rote memorization of set dogmas:

A) R. Bacon	B) Erasmus of Rotterdam
C) Augustine	D) J.A. Comenius

7. Name the author of the statement: «If pedagogy wants to educate a person in every respect, it must first come to know him in every respect»?

A) N.I. Pirogov	B) K.D. Ushinsky
C) L.N. Tolstoy	D) P.F. Lesgaft

8. Which Russian educator held the idea of «producing a new breed of people by creating closed, estate-based boarding institutions for children and adolescents»?

A) I.I. Betskoy	B) I.I. Novikov
C) F.I. Yankovich	D) N.A. Radishchev

9. Identify the educator who held that «…a system of education built to match the needs of the people fosters in children valuable psychological traits and moral qualities: patriotism, national pride, love of labor»:

A) P.F. Kapterev	B) L.N. Tolstoy
C) P.P. Blonsky	D) K.D. Ushinsky

10. Representatives of the ancient Greek (Socratic) philosophical school. The basis of happiness and virtue is renunciation of wealth, fame and all sensual pleasures:

A) Stoics	B) Cynics
C) Sophists	D) Sophronists

11. Which age period did J.-J. Rousseau call «the period of storm and stress»:

A) from birth to 2 years	B) from 2 to 12 years
C) from 12 to 15 years	D) from 15 years to majority

12. Which of the following scholars was the first to propose an age periodization of child development?

A) J.A. Comenius	B) J. Locke
C) J. Pestalozzi	D) J.-J. Rousseau

13. What factors, in J.-J. Rousseau's view, influence human development?

A) the teacher and the social environment	B) heredity
C) nature, people and things	D) self-education

14. The movement in psychology and pedagogy that arose at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, driven by the penetration of evolutionary ideas into pedagogy and psychology and by the development of applied branches of psychology, is called:

A) pedagogy	B) pedology
C) didactics	D) psychopedagogy

15. J. Bruner's work belongs to …theories of learning

A) behaviorist	B) cognitive
C) activity-based	D) associative

16. One of the conceptual principles of modern instruction – «Instruction does not trail behind development but leads it forward» - was formulated by

A) L.S. Vygotsky	B) L.S. Rubinstein
C) B.G. Ananiev	D) J. Bruner

17. The first pedological laboratory was established:

A) by A.P. Nechaev in 1901	B) by S. Hall in 1889
C) by W. James in 1875	D) by N.N. Lange in 1896

18. The problems of the relationship between perception and thinking in cognitive activity were studied in Russian psychology by:

A) S.L. Rubinstein, S.N. Shabalin	B) A.A. Smirnov, P.I. Zinchenko
C) L.V. Zankov	D) D.B. Elkonin, V.V. Davydov

19. The questions of the relationship between memory and thinking in cognitive activity were analyzed in Russian psychology by:

A) S.L. Rubinstein, S.N. Shabalin	B) A.N. Leontiev, L.V. Zankov
C) N.A. Menchinskaya, E.I. Kabanova-Meller	D) D.B. Elkonin, V.V. Davydov

20. The features of the development of thinking and speech in preschoolers and schoolchildren were investigated in Russian psychology by:

A) S.L. Rubinstein, S.N. Shabalin	B) A.N. Leontiev, L.V. Zankov
C) N.A. Menchinskaya, E.I. Kabanova-Meller	D) D.B. Elkonin, V.V. Davydov

Correct answers

Question No.	Variant 1	Points
1	B	1
2	B	1
3	C	1
4	A	1
5	C	1
6	A	1
7	B	1
8	A	1
9	D	1
10	B	1
11	D	1
12	A	1
13	C	1
14	B	1
15	B	1
16	A	1
17	B	1
18	A	1
19	B	1
20	D	1

Criteria for evaluating test results for the course History of Developmental Psychology

Points	Performance (% correct answers)	Grade
18 to 20	100 to 86 %	5
14 to 17	85 to 70 %	4
10 to 13	69 to 51 %	3
under 10	under 50 %	2

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