Chapter 3 Psychology Test Review

A newborn has certain automatic movement patterns called:

• schemas

• reflexes

• instincts

• formal operations

Psychologists call the internally programmed growth of a child

• socialization

• maturation

• development

• assimilation

In authoritarian families,

• Children have the final say

• Children participate in decision making

• Parents set the rules and children are expected to follow them

Jean Piaget's research shows that

• Intelligence develops as children grow

• Full intelligence is present at birth

• intelligence does not vary among children

• The environment determines intelligence

What type of psychology is the study of changes that occur as a person matures.

• Educational Psychology

• Cognitive Psychology

• Clinical Psychology

• Developmental Psychology

The rules for organizing words into sentences are called

• Babbling

• Grammar

• Language

• Speech

Intelligence is the ability to

• Speak

• Move

• Understand

• Breath

What is a mental representation of the world?

• Schema

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

The child understands that an object exists even when she cannot see or touch it is known as what?

• Accommodation

• Representational Thought

• Object Permanence

• Assimilation

When children understand that the amount of something does not change when its appearance changes is known as

• ego centrism

• conservation

• imprinting

• critical period