Development Review Quiz - AP Psych

Children think in a different way than adults. The way we think changes at different stages in life.Whose theory of development does this best describe?

• Piaget
• Vygotsky
• Kohlberg
• Festinger
• Freud

An infant who has developed object permanence…

• is attached to specific objects, such as a blanket.
• cries when a wanted object is taken away.
• will see all objects as being the same.
• knows that an object, such as a rattle, exists even if it is not in view.
• never misses the object if it is out of view

When we are at school, with friends for the first time, our moral reasoning most likely centers around?

• personal values
• social conformity
• cognitive dissonance
• responses to rewards and punishments
• standing out

According to Piaget (and Freud), children mostly care for their own needs, or are born with an innate sense of?

• Pacifism
• Egocentrism
• Neuroticism
• Antidisestablishmentarianism
• Narcissism

Four-year-old Craig understands that birds build nests in trees. In his front yard, Craig notices an unusually large nest. He is scared to go near it, fearing that some large bird may attack him. Craig’s father explains to him that squirrels also build nests and that the nest in the front yard is that of a squirrel. Craig changes his thinking to now include the fact that squirrels build nests.  Jean Piaget would say that Craig’s new way of thinking about nests is an example of…

• Accommodation
• Assimilation
• Conservation
• A Heuristic
• A new habit

Little Bobby has just learned that robins are birds. She now sees a sparrow, points to it, and calls out “Bird!” According to Jean Piaget, Bobby is using the cognitive process of?

• Assimilation
• Accommodation
• Transduction
• Conservation
• Heroics

According to Vygostky, cognitive development happens through?

• Social interactions
• Heredity
• Consequences to actions
• Maturity
• Conformity

Vygostky would call dad's help learning to ride a bike and the training wheels attached to bikes what - or tools to help us learn a new unknown skill?

• scaffolds
• errors
• conformers
• tuners
• helpers

The final stage of Piaget's cognitive development theory focuses on?

• Spatial reasoning
• Basic logic
• Abstract thinking
• Social conformity
• Habit formation

According to Piaget, cognitive development happens through?

• maturity
• heredity
• consequences to actions
• social interactions
• conformity