AP Psych Review Game

What is Developmental Psychology? Choose the answer that best fits.

• is the study of how and why humans can change over the course of being an infant, child, adolescent, and adult.

• addresses the emotionally, behavioral, and mental challenges faced by many at different points in their life.

• is based on the idea that the environment shapes human behavior and is the study of behavior.

What studies have given us a lot of information about nature and nurture?

• Bobo doll experiment

• Twin studies

• big five study

According to Piaget, mental structures that guide thinking are

• dicontinous

• continuous

• schemas

• the building blocks of development

In Piaget's theory, the stages of cognitive development are in what order?

• preoperational, sensorimotor, concrete operational, formal operational

• concrete operational, formal operational, preoperational, sensorimotor

• sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational

Dr. Zuniga believes that people tend to be introverts due to their social experiences whereas Dr. Bayze believes that people are isolated because of specific genetic influences. What would you say the debate is between both Doctors?

• Genetics versus socialization

• Nature versus Nurture

In which stage of Jean Piaget's cognitive development, does object permanence occur?

• sensorimotor

• concrete operational

• formal operational

• preoperational

What theory occurs when children develop the ability to take another person's perspective into consideration? A hint: they can tease and understand what made someone upset.

• Theory of thought

• Theory of psychology

• Theory of mind

• Theory of behavior

What was Lev Vygotsky known for?

• his work on psychological development in children

• his sociocultural theory about social interaction playing a role in child learning

• zone of proximal development

• being a behavioral psychologist

According to Konrad Lorenz, attachment for some animals is achieved through

• touch

• comfort

• imprinting

• heredity

According to Piaget's theory, an adolescent that receives a high school education has achieved what stage of cognitive development?

• preoperational

• concrete operational

• identity versus role confusion

• formal operational