Pop Quiz- Developmental Psychology

These are concepts or frameworks that organize and interpret information.

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

• Crystallized Intelligence

• Schema

Taking in new information and fitting it into existing schemas

• Crystallized intelligence

• Fluid intelligence

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

He believed that the human mind develops through a series of stages. For him, our minds are always trying to make order out of what we take in through our senses.

• Raymund Catell

• Jean Piaget

• Erik Erikson

• Sigmund Freud

Object permanence can be defined as:

• Pieces of information continuing to be remembered.

• Events and ideas being permanently engrained in the mind.

• Objects continuing to exist even after they have left our perception.

• Believing you can see things that are not there.

Kohlberg believed...

• There is a universal sequence to the development of morality and the stages begin earlier in childhood.

• There are 5 stages of moral development.

• There is a strict structure to how children develop that must be adhered to. Children can not move outside of these set groups.

• There are four aspects of cognitive development.

What type of development do developmental psychologist study?

• physical

• social

• cognitive

• all of the above

Which of the following is the correct order of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development?

• preoperational; formal operations, concrete operations; sensorimotor

• sensorimotor; preoperational; concrete operations; formal operations

• concrete operations; sensorimotor; preoperational; formal operations

• preoperational; concrete operations; sensorimotor; formal operations

This is the chemical agent in the blood stream of the mother that could cause birth defects.

• Teratogens

• Bio-hazards

• Carcinogens

• Parabens

What makes a human baby 12 months old cling to her mother when he or she is frightened or hurt?

• separation anxiety

• stranger anxiety

• attachment

• imprinting

What stage am I?
Teens test different roles, or they’re confused about who they are.

• Trust vs mistrust
• generativity vs stagnation
• Identity vs role confusion