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Worksheets9 IQ/Testing Test*
Total questions: 66
Worksheet time: 33mins
Intimacy vs. Isolation occurs at what stage?
childhood
teenage years
young adult
old age
What stage is this?
People look back on their lives either with a sense of accomplishment or failure and regret.
integrity vs despair
Generativity vs stagnation
Identity vs role confusion
Intimacy vs isolation
What term was made famous by Erik Erikson?
trust issues
identity crisis
industry
initiative
Which theorist thought that each stage of development includes a unique psychological crisis? If the crisis is met in a positive way, the individual develops normally.
Kohlberg
Erickson
Piaget
Bandura
Whose theory states that children learn through imitation?
Kohlberg
Erikson
Piaget
Bandura
Jamie's parents are so wrapped up in their own problems that they do not have time for her.
Negligent
Permissive
Authoritative
Authoritarian
Parenting style where the child is in control and parents have difficulty setting boundaries.
Authoritarian
Authoritative
Permissive
Negligent
People are motivated by rewards and punishment during this stage of moral development.
Preconventional
Conventional
Post Conventional
Parenting style where the child and parents work together on setting boundaries and rules
Authoritarian
Authoritative/Democratic
Permissive/Laisse-faire
Negligent
People are willing to break the law to do what they believe is for the greater good of most people.
Preconventional
Conventional
Post Conventional
Parenting style where the child is left on his/her own.
Authoritarian
Negligent
Permissive
Authoritative
Harry Harlow is best known for his research on
Cognitive development
Attachment
Morality
Social Skills
Children of these parents often struggle to make their own decisions when outside of the home.
Authoritarian
Democratic or Authoritative
Permissive
Negligent
Which of the following psychologists developed the Strange Situation to identify various types of attachment between infants and caregivers?
Lawrence Kohlberg
Erik Erikson
Mary Ainsworth
Jean Piaget
Which is NOT a form of attachment according to Mary Ainsworth?
Secure attachment
Insecure attachment
Trusting attachment
Which of the following behaviors is NOT indicative of a securely-attached baby?
Difficulty in calming child when parent returns
High willingness to explore when parent is in sight
Moderate stranger anxiety
Enthusiastic response when parent returns
This psychologist raised baby monkeys with a wire “mother” and a cloth "mother". He showed the importance of "contact comfort" for building a bond between caregiver and child.
Jean Piaget
Harry Harlow
Mary Ainsworth
Lawrence Kohlberg
Konrad Lorenz
These parents love their children, yet believe that they (the parents) know best about all matters and expect their children to obey them with no explanation.
Authoritarian
Permissive
Authoritative
Neglectful
Old Concept: Whose theory emphasized how children learn from social interactions, stressing the importance of scaffolding, zone of proximal development, and inner speech.
Erik Erikson
Lev Vygotsky
Mary Ainsworth
Jean Piaget
Konrad Lorenz
Old Concept: Which psychologist is known for his bobo doll experiment and for Social Learning theory, both emphasizing observational learning?
Lawrence Kohlberg
Albert Bandura
Erik Erikson
Jean Piaget
Whose experiment with baby monkeys showed that attachment doesn't occur simply because a caregiver feeds a child (as Behaviorists once argued)?
Bandura
Harlow
Lorenz
Erikson
Piaget
Set of expected behaviors for males and females
gender roles
gender identity
sex
gender typing
We learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by reward and punishment.
gender identity
object permanence
self concept
social learning theory
Which level of moral reasoning includes upholding laws in order to gain social approval?
Collectivist
Preconventional
Conventional
Postconventional
Old Concept: Study in which people of different ages are compared with one another.
longitudinal study
cross sectional study
5. Which statement about the human sex chromosomes is correct?
A. All boys have two Y chromosomes.
B. Everybody has at least one X chromosome.
C. Girls have a Y chromosome and an X chromosome.
D. Nobody has two X chromosomes.
7. Which sex chromosomes are present in all mature human sperm cells that will determine the sex of a potential baby?
A. both X and Y chromosomes
B. either X or Y chromosomes
C. only X chromosomes
D. only Y chromosomes
The female class of hormones
Androgen
Estrogen
Testosterone
Endorphins
The umbrella term for the male class of hormones
Estrogen
Progesterone
Androgen
Serotonin
Sex characteristics that are related directly to the production of reproductive cells
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Primary Sex Characteristics
Puberty
"Super powers"
Changes during puberty related to a person's gender, unrelated to reproduction.
Secondary sex characteristics
Puberty
Hormones
Primary sex characteristics
Old Concept: Which part of the brain is responsible for emotion?
Amygdala
Prefrontal Cortex
Cerebellum
Hippocampus
This biologist did work on imprinting that was used as evidence for a biological basis for human attachment.
Mary Ainsworth
Lawrence Kohlberg
Konrad Lorenz
Erik Erikson
The part of the brain in charge of judgement, reasoning, planning, and delay of gratification that does not fully develop until one's 20's.
hippocampus
prefrontal cortex
hypothalamus
cerebellum
The four stages of Piaget's cognitive development (in order) are:
Sensorimotor, preoperational, formal operational, concrete operational.
Sensorimotor, formal operational, concrete operational, optional.
Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational.
Sensorimotor, abstract operational, logical operational, formal operational.
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.
Two key struggles for preoperational kids are ____________. (Please select two)
understanding conservation
thinking in abstracts and hypotheticals
being egocentric
believing that things continue to exist even after they're out of our perception
Lev Vygotsky's concept about supporting students as they stretch to learn higher concepts is called ____________.
zone of proximal development
conservation
object permanence
scaffolding
temperament
Whose research uncovered that "inner speech" (talking to oneself) is helpful for children in solving problems?
Noam Chomsky
Jean Piaget
Schacter-Singer
Lev Vygotsky
Teachers should target their instruction to a place above what students can do on their own but below what they can do with help from advanced tutors. This is called ___________.
the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
scaffolding
conservation
maturation
habituation
The concrete operational stage occurs in what age bracket?
Birth - 2
7 - 11 years
11+ years
2 - 7 years
Two key features of the formal operational stage (11+) are:
Abstract thinking and hypotheticals
Object permanence and theory of mind
Conservation and abstract thinking
Logical and empathetic thinking
Which of these are criticisms/weaknesses of all stage theories? (Please mark all that apply.)
We don't always progress in a straight, predictable way based on our age.
Sometimes we can be in two stages at the same time.
Sometimes we can skip stages.
Climbing stairs is good exercise.
Old Concept: These are examples of cognitive bias that act as frameworks to help us organize our world.
Assimilation
Accommodation
Habituation
Schema
This is taking in new information and fitting it into existing schemas (where they don't fit).
Habituation
Dishabituation
Assimilation
Accommodation
This is changing and revising existing schema in the face of new experiences or information.
Habituation
Dishabituation
Assimilation
Accommodation
Another way to look at an Old Concept: Which of the following best describes a critical period?
A moment in development where the infant becomes self-aware.
Moments in time where individuals are influenced socially.
Developmental periods where individuals learn through observation.
A time during development when the individual is ready to move to the next objective
Who developed the 8-stage theory of Psychosocial development?
Lev Vygotsky
Erik Erikson
Jean Piaget
Sigmund Freud
Who developed the 4-stage theory of cognitive development?
Lev Vygotsky
Sigmund Freud
Erik Erikson
Jean Piaget
Which of the following designs studies one group of children over an extended period of time?
longitudinal method
case-study method
laboratory method
cross-sectional method
What term is used to describe a child’s inability to see the world through anyone else’s eyes except his or her own?
egocentrism
narcissism
accommodation
assimilation
According to Piaget, the ability to understand that simply changing the appearance of an object does not change the object’s amount is known as _______.
accommodation
assimilation
conservation
object permanence
What experimental design studies two groups of children at the same time?
focus groups
case studies
cross-sectional studies
longitudinal studies
Which type of developmental research design yields the most valid results?
cross-sectional studies
longitudinal studies
case studies
interviews
Old Concept: _______________ are mental representations that organize our knowledge, beliefs, and expectations.
Flashbulb memories
Cognitive schemas
Implicit memories
Explicit memories
Erik Erikson suggested that infants with a secure attachment to their parents are especially likely to learn ___________.
stranger anxiety
egocentrism
basic trust
object permanence
habituation
According to Erikson's Psychosocial Stages of Development, which stage describes a child who needs to learn important academic skills and compare favorably with peers in school in order to achieve competence?
Trust vs Mistrust
Identity vs Role Confusion
Initiative vs Guilt
Industry vs Inferiority
How many psychosocial stages did Erikson believe that people move through during the lifespan?
8
10
4
6
What psychosocial stage is it when toddlers wish to do things on their own yet are sometime humiliated for it....
Trust vs Mistrust
Identity vs Role Confusion
Autonomy vs Shame
Industry vs Inferiority
When an ovum (egg) is first fertilized, it is known as ___________.
a nucleus
an embryo
a zygote
a fetus
_______ is a concept that encompasses your personality and activity level.
Conservation
Zone of proximal development
Temperament
Maturation
Habituation
Which of the following is NOT a teratogen?
alcohol
the mercury in raw fish
most medicines
viral infections
fried food
Old Concept: When sperm and egg meet to form a one-celled zygote, how many chromosomes does that zygote have?
23
23 pairs
46 pairs
more than a million
One useful technique to use with babies to see if they understand or expect something is _______________. This is when you measure how long a baby stares at something (like a ball rolling downhill vs a ball rolling uphill).
Longitudinal
Cross-sectional
Habituation
Maturation
Critical period
Being aware of other people's intentions is part of the concept of ______________.
Instincts
Intelligence
Temperament
Theory of mind
