AP Psychology Development Review

Which of the following is a major issue of developmental psychology?

• Life and Death

• Stability and Change

• Dreams and Reality

• Nature and Genetics

Which of the following would fit into a toddler's schema of a dog?

• Deer

• Horse

• Cat

• Fish

What are Piaget's four stages of cognitive development?

• sensorimotor, preconventional, formal operational, concrete operational

• formal operational, sensorimotor, preoperational, conventional

• sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational

• concrete operational, preconventional, post conventional, formal operational

What is the ZPD?

• Zone of Defense Readiness

• Zone of Proximity Defense

• a theory of mind

• Zone of Proximal Development

Which two are the key to infants becoming attached to a person?

• touch and familiarity

• sight and smell

• sight and hearing

• hearing and taste

What is "self-concept?"

• how you feel about yourself

• a sense of who you truly are

• an emotional connection with someone else

• a belief that the world is predictable and reliable

What are gender roles?

• a set of expectations about a social position, defining how those in the position should behave

• our sense of being male or female

• a set of expected behaviors for males and females

• cultural bias towards a particular gender

The three stages of Kohlberg's Moral Reasoning Theory are:

• preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational

• conventional, postconventional, preoperational

• operational, postconventional, conventional

• preconventional, conventional, postconventional

Which psychologists believed that each stage of life has a crisis that must be resolved?

• Piaget

• Ainsworth

• Erikson

• Harlow

What is a cross-sectional study?

• people of various ages are studied and retested for a long period

• one person is compared to another person

• a new group of people are tested after a certain amount of time

• people of various ages are compared with one another