PSY 203 Theories of Development

Which of the following most accurately describes

Freud's model of the personality?

• Formal operations

• Id, ego, and identity

• Consciousness, preconsciousness, and reality

• Id, ego, superego

Behavior is more likely to reoccur if

• there is intrinsic reinforcement

• it has been reinforced

• it is extinct

• it has been punished

Which of the following theories is concerned with the developmental aspects of thinking, memory, and logic

• Cognitive

• Social

• Psychodynamic

• Behavioral

According to Piaget's theory, which of the following best applies to the process of assimilation?

• Changing a scheme as a result of acquiring new information

• Being shaped by the environment

• Using an internal model of experience

• Using an existing scheme to make sense of an event or experience

Which of the following is the best description of

the process of accommodation?

• The use of multiple strategies to address new problems

• Changing an existing scheme as a result of new

  information or experiences

• Using symbols to represent the events from the real world

• Understanding the world in terms of one's senses and motor actions

In which stage of cognitive development does a child use symbols to think and communicate?

• Sensorimotor

• Preoperational

• Formal operations

• Concrete operations

The idea that certain human behaviors have developed and persisted in order to ensure survival of the species is drawn from which of the following?

• Behaviorism

• Classical conditioning

• Nativism

• Ethology

Which of the following contexts of development includes the values and beliefs of the culture in which a child is growing up

• Microsystem

• Mesosystem

• Exosystem

• Macrosystem

Which of the following contexts of development includes the

institutions of the culture that affect children's development indirectly?

• Microsystem

• Mesosystem

• Exosystem

• Macrosystem

Which of the following contexts of development includes those variables to which people are exposed directly, such as families, schools, religious institutions, and neighborhoods?

• Microsystem

• Mesosystem

• Exosystem

• Macrosystem