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WorksheetsUnit 1 Psych 20: Major Theoretical Perspectives
Total questions: 65
Worksheet time: 55mins
What is this an example of?
Much of Freud's psychoanalytic theory on personality is criticized for lacking empirical support. What is one exception?
The psychosexual stages of development
The concept of defense mechanisms
The three levels of consciousness
The three personality structures
When you use this defense mechanism, you may kick your dog because you are angry at your parents.
When you use this defense mechanism, you might not admit to yourself that you are failing a class even though your last three tests were “F’s”.
What was Freuds approach to psychology
Psychoanalysis
Humanistic
Cognitive
Behavioural
According to Bronfenbrenner, every person develops within a?
Micro-system
Macro-system
Exo-system
Gaming System
A consequence that strengthens the behavior it follows is known as a?
enforcer
reinforcer
annihilator
positive pressure
Jane cleans her desk.
Jane's teacher praises her.
Jane will continue to clean her desk.
Positive Reinforcement
Negative Reinforcement
Punishment
Ricardo complains of headaches when it is time to do homework.
Ricardo is allowed to go to bed without doing his homework.
Ricardo will have headaches whenever there is homework to do.
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Punishment
Rob works quietly at his seat.
The teacher praises and rewards Rob.
Rob will continue to work quietly at his seat
Positive Reinforcement
Negative Reinforcement
Punishment
Ella sits on the teachers desk at school.
Ella is kept inside for recess each time she sits on the teachers desk.
Ella will not sit on the teachers desk.
Positive Reinforcement
Negative Reinforcement
Negative Punishment
Which theorist thought that people could be trained to perform a certain task or response by providing some sort of trigger?
Ivan Pavlov
John B. Watson
B. F. Skinner
Jean Piaget
In classical conditioning, what is a stimulus that automatically elicits a particular unconditoned response?
Conditioned stimulus (CS)
Unconditioned response (UR)
Unconditioned stimulus (US)
Conditioned response (CR)
What is a form of learning in which a neutral stimulus comes to elicit a response after being associated with a stimulus that already elicits that response?
Normal learning
Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Positive reinforcement
Which theorist was a behaviorist who believed that children were "blank slates" and acquired all skills and personality via learning?
B. F. Skinner
Ivan Pavlov
John B. Watson
John Locke
What was Watson most famous for?
Classical conditioning
His invention of the teaching machine
His work with children with autism
His experiment with Little Albert, a rat, and a loud noise
What is a type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher?
Classical conditioning
Positive reinforcement
Operant conditioning
Programmed instruction
What increases behaviors by presenting positive stimuli, such as food? This is any stimulus that, when presented after a response, strengthens the response.
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Positive punishment
Negative punishment
What increases behaviors by stopping or reducing negative stimuli, such as shock? This is any stimulus that, when removed after a response, strengthens the response.
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Positive punishment
Negative punishment
What involves the presentation of an unfavorable event or outcome in order to weaken the response it follows?
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Positive punishment
Negative punishment
What occurs when a favorable event or outcome is removed after a behavior occurs in order to weaken the response it follows?
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Positive punishment
Negative punishment
After Cassie flirted with someone else at the party, her boyfriend stopped talking to her. Cassie didn't flirt at the next party. This is an example of...
Positive punishment
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Negative punishment
The student jumps up and down, hand raised, yelling "me, me, me!" and the teacher calls on her. The child jumps and yells even more in the future. This is an example of...
Positive punishment
Negative punishment
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Natalie can get up from the dinner table after she eats two bites of her broccoli. This is an example of...
Positive punishment
Positive reinforcement
Negative punishment
Negative reinforcement
In Piaget's theory, the stage in which infants are only aware of what is immediately in front of them (from birth to about 2 years of age).
Formal Operational Stage
Preoperational Stage
Sensorimotor Stage
Concrete Operational Stage
Piaget's fourth and final stage of cognitive development. The person can think logically, hypothetically, and in the abstract
Preconventional Moral Reasoning
Postconventional Moral Reasoning
Conventional Moral Reasoning
Formal Operational Stage
Sally attempts to retrieve her teddy bear after her father hides it under a blanket. This suggests that Sally has developed a sense of
egocentrism.
object permanence.
conservation.
accommodation.
Robby understands her world primarily by grasping and sucking easily available objects. Robby is clearly in Piaget's ________ stage.
preoperational
concrete operational
sensorimotor
formal operational
Sally attempts to retrieve her teddy bear after her father hides it under a blanket. This suggests that Sally has developed a sense of
egocentrism.
object permanence.
conservation.
accommodation.
State of fulfillment in which a person is achieving at his or her highest level of capability
Self-Actualization
Self-transcendence
Unconditional Positive Regard
Actualizing Tendency
Meaning, purpose, and communion beyond the self
Self-Actualization
Self-transcendence
Unconditional Positive Regard
Actualizing Tendency
According to Humanism, people are trying to
Become the best person they could be
Work through their hidden wishes, desires, etc...
Avoid being punished by the Superego
Satisfy the immediate demands of the Id
Negative self-concept = Unhappy with who they are, see the world as unsafe
True
False
The Real Self = Person that you would like to be
True
False
The Ideal Self = Person you actually are
True
False
any action that people can observe or measure
behavior
psychology
sociology
cognition
