AP Psyche Unit 6 Developmental Psyche

Your central nervous system is made up of your...

• Brain and spinal chord

• Brain only

• Brain and neurons

• Brain, neuron, and nerves

Answer explanation

The CNS is one part of the nervous system! The second part includes the peripheral nervous system, which includes the nerves that connect your CNS to the rest of your body!

Why is Phineas Gage an important figure in psychology?

The brain's ability to modify and adapt it's structure/function throughout life is called...

Cindy understands her world primarily by grasping and sucking easily available objects. Cindy is clearly in Piaget's ________ stage

• preoperational
• concrete operational
• sensorimotor
• formal operational

According to Piaget, during the formal operational stage people begin to:

• reason abstractly
• adhere to social norms
• distinguish between good and bad behaviors
• become aware of the positive and negative consequences of their own behaviors

According to Piaget, children come to understand that the volume of a substance remains constant despite changes in its shape during the ________ stage.

• sensorimotor
• preoperational
• concrete operational
• formal operational

An infant who has developed object permanence...

• is attached to specific objects, such as a blanket.
• will see all objects as being the same.
• knows that an object, such as a rattle, exists even if it is not in view.
• cries when a wanted object is taken away.

Four-year-old Jennifer mistakenly believes that her mother would like to receive a toy doll as a Christmas present. This best illustrates Piaget's concept of:

• accommodation
• attachment
• object permanence
• egocentricism

The cognitive ability to be able to recognize that quantities remain the same when two glasses of water are sitting beside each other, and one is poured into a taller glass.

• Irreversibility
• Centration
• Conservation
• Object Permanence 

The inability of young children to see the world through someone else's view is termed:

• Centration
• Irreversibility
• Conservation
• Egocentrism