Question

true or false

___Mechanistic research aims to identify the external factors that make people behave the way they do.

__If a person believes in the power of programs like Head Start or in early intervention in general, that person believes in reactive development.

__Rousseau’s reactive view is closely related to the organismic model.

__Freud’s psychoanalytic perspective is based on reactive development.

_Piaget’s cognitive stage theory is based on qualitative changes that take place between infancy and adolescence.

___In the contextual perspective to development that Brofenbrenner’s bio- ecological theory proposes is an example of mechanistic development.

_Skinner’s behaviorism is mechanistic.

Answer 1

1. Mechanistic research aims .........they so ------  False

2. If a person believes ..   reactive development ----  True

3. Rousseau's reactive ........the organismic model ---- False

Explanation: It is related to Gestalt psychology.

4. Freud's psychoanalytic.......reactive development---- True

5. Piaget's cognitive......infancy and adolescence ----- True

6. In contextual perspective....mechanistic development--- False

7. Skinner behaviorism ---- True