Chapter 3 Test Infancy and Childhood Review - Psychology

The specialized study of how an individual’s physical, social, emotional, moral, and intellectual development occur in sequential interrelated stages through life.

• Developmental Psychology

• Environmental Psychology

• Educational Psychology

• Experimental Psychology

Development for a child first begins in the womb.

• True

• False

What are the two reflexes that all newborns are born with?

• Grasping and Running

• Grasping and Rooting

• Rooting and Jumping

• Running and Jumping

Internally programmed growth is known as?

• Egocentric

• Maturation

• Permissive

• Identification

The psychologist _________________ described four stages of cognitive development.

• Erik Erikson

• Jean Piaget

• Sigmund Freud

• Konrad Lorenz

This term refers to a mental representation of the world.

• schema

• sensorimotor

• permissive

• egocentric

The process of fitting objects and experiences into one's schemas is known as?

• Assimilation

• Authoritarian

• Democratic

• Egocentric

The concept that even though an item is not visible to the eye you still recognize that it still exists.

• Strange Situation

• Object Permanence

• Authoritative

• Intellectual Growth

Who was a pioneer in the field of animal learning and imprinting, specifically on goslings/geese?

• Jean Piaget

• Franz Ferdinand

• Konrad Lorenz

• Sigmund Freud

Children participate in decisions affecting their lives in __________ families

• democratic

• authoritarian

• laissez-faire

• uninvolved