Pre-Test Task 2

Parents who have high levels of control over their children with strictly enforced rules yet lack emotional connectedness such that they might be perceived as inflexible dictators are best described as

• authoritative

• authoritarian

• permissive

• uninvolved

In Bronfenbrenners’s bioecological theory of human development, family and school interact, or are linked, to affect children’s development. This interaction falls into which of the following?

• Microsystem

• Mesosystem

• Exosystem

• Chronosystem

According to Erikson, at what point in development are a person’s experiences with others most likely to help them develop trust in the world and other people?

• In infancy

• In elementary school

• As a preschooler

• In high school

According to Erikson, at what point in development is a person most likely to develop a sense of industry by successfully completing tasks, or develop an inferiority complex in which they believe they are not a competent person?

• As a preschooler

• In elementary school

• In infancy

• in high school

In the Industry vs. Inferiority stage, when the psychosocial crisis is resolved the resulting virtue is:

• Will

• Hope

• Competence

• Attachment

During Erikson’s Intimacy vs. Isolation stage, the social context shifts toward

• Peers

• Teachers

• Parents

• Romantic Partners

An internal crisis or conflict whose resolution either has a positive or negative effect on development of the self

• Trust Issue

• Maturational Timetable

• Psychosocial Crisis

• Personality Crisis

In Kohlberg’s theory, which is most defined by a focus on external authority, such as standards of society?

• Conventional

• Postconventional

• Preconventional

• Interconventional

The individuals most closely associated with theories of moral reasoning are

• Kohlberg and Vygotsky

• Kohlberg and Piaget

• Erikson and Piaget

• Piaget and Vygotsky

The extensive outer layer of gray matter which is largely responsible for higher brain functions is called the

• hippocampus

• cerebellum

• cerebral cortex

• corpus callosum