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Psychology and Development Quiz

Total questions: 42

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This person created the theories of moral development.

a)

Kohlberg

b)

Skinner

c)

Piaget

d)

Albert

2.

Emerging Adulthood occurs during what ages?

a)

13 - 19

b)

18 - mid 20s

c)

21 - 30

d)

16 - 21

3.

This has to do with environment and culture.

a)

Nature

b)

Conservation

c)

Nurture

d)

Temperament

4.

During Piaget’s ______ stage, the world is experienced through what we can take in through our perceptual systems and how we can move our bodies.

a)

Concrete operational

b)

Formal operational

c)

Preoperational

d)

Sensorimotor

5.

_______ development involves growth and changes in the body and brain, the senses, motor skills, and health and wellness.

a)

Cognitive

b)

Learning

c)

Physical

d)

Psychosocial

6.

This relates to optimal levels of physiological arousal required to perform either simple or complex tasks.

a)

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

b)

Piaget’s Theory of Motivation

c)

Yerkes-Dodson Law

d)

Skinner’s Behavioral Matrix

7.

Sweating and shivering are responses created due to internal temperature fluctuations, and they are designed to bring the body back into _______.

a)

Alignment

b)

Homeostasis

c)

Balance

d)

Equilibrium

8.

The need for ______ encourages Mr. Barnhart to complete a PsyD., so he can add another accomplishment to his list of accolades.

a)

Achievement

b)

Affiliation

c)

Intimacy

d)

Power

9.

According to Freud, our personalities can be broken down into 3 parts:

a)

Ego, Superego, and Id

b)

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

c)

Personal, Formal, Informal

d)

Conscious, Unconscious, Subconscious

10.

Self-actualization is considered to be a core part of the development of one's personality according to which approach?

a)

Humanistic

b)

Learning

c)

Freudian

d)

Neo-Freudian

11.

______ is a state of being in which our thoughts about our real and ideal selves are very similar.

a)

Congruence

b)

Egotism

c)

Incongruence

d)

Self-efficacy

12.

Which of the following was one of Alfred Adler’s main contributions to personality theory?

a)

Advocating for analytical psychology

b)

Suggesting that our birth order shapes our personality

c)

The idea that men have womb envy

d)

The theory that our personality develops in psychosocial stages

13.

________ describes a proportion of difference among people that is attributed to genetics.

a)

Heritability

b)

Personality

c)

Temperament

d)

Trait

14.

Which of the following best defines Social Psychology?

a)

It studies the way people make friends.

b)

It examines how people affect one another.

c)

It looks at why people do what they do.

d)

It finds out how people figure out what to buy.

15.

This is a persuasive technique in which the persuader gets a person to agree to a small request only to later seek agreement on a bigger request.

a)

Door-in-the-face

b)

Bait-and-switch

c)

Down-then-up

d)

Foot-in-the-door

16.

The ______ hypothesis is the ideology common in the United States that people get the outcomes they deserve.

a)

Equal status

b)

Come-uppance

c)

Just-world

d)

Fairness

17.

What was the main conclusion drawn from the Stanford prison experiment?

a)

Social roles are powerful determinants of human behavior

b)

Students cannot be relied upon to act appropriately

c)

Students cannot be trusted in roles of authority

d)

When operating in a group, some people will put forth less effort than if they were operating alone

18.

What program do I-O psychologists commonly use to help people identify a good career fit?

a)

KSAO

b)

O*NET

c)

Indeed

d)

Handshake

19.

Roughly how much of our lives are spent working?

a)

All of it

b)

3/2

c)

2/5

d)

1/3

20.

Which important legislation protected employees against discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin?

a)

The Supreme Court Ruling in the case of Griggs v. Duke Power Company

b)

The Equal Pay Act

c)

The 1964 Civil Rights Act, Title VII

d)

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

21.

The notion that workers tend to show an increase in performance when they know that they are being observed is called the _______ effect.

a)

Flynn effect

b)

Hawthorne effect

c)

Taylor effect

d)

Munsterberg effect

22.

What area are human factors psychologists researching when they study what steps people take to successfully wash their hands before performing surgery?

a)

Attention

b)

Cognitive engineering

c)

Cognitive analysis

d)

Task analysis

23.

A psychological disorder is a _______.

a)

Condition characterized by abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

b)

Condition characterized by normal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

c)

Medical condition that has identifiable neurological causes

d)

Set of situational, idiosyncratic, or unconventional inner feelings

24.

What is comorbidity?

a)

A co-occurrence of two disorders

b)

Having two causes for a single disorder

c)

Having two causes of death

d)

Mental disorder leading to death

25.

Which of the following is an example of a diathesis-stress model?

a)

Ozzie has a genetic predisposition towards depression, but he did not experience depression until his mother and father died.

b)

Ozzie treats his depression by exposing himself to a series of stressors so he can learn coping skills.

c)

Ozzie treats his manic episodes by using medication to induce depression.

d)

Ozzie’s doctor does not believe that mental illness has a biological basis.

26.

Which of the following is the term for partial or total forgetting of some experience or event?

a)

Depersonalization

b)

Derealization

c)

Dissociative Amnesia

d)

Disorganization

27.

In Medieval times, what would be the most likely form of treatment for someone suffering the symptoms of a psychological illness?

a)

Bloodletting

b)

Exorcism

c)

Trephination

d)

The “spinning technique”

28.

Which term refers to the fact that the therapist cannot disclose private communications to any third party unless mandated or permitted by law to do so?

a)

Confidentiality

b)

Disclosure

c)

Discretion

d)

Privilege

29.

A person who suffers from cocaine use disorder as well as bipolar disorder has a ______ situation.

a)

Polysubstance

b)

Incidental

c)

Prevalent

d)

Comorbid

30.

What medication type is used to treat Schizophrenia and thought disorders?

a)

Anti-depressants

b)

Mood stabilizers

c)

Stimulants

d)

Antipsychotics

31.
This style of parenting calls for imposing rules and demanding obedience without debate or discussion between parent and child.
a)
Permissive
b)
Neglectful
c)
Authoritative
d)
Authoritarian
32.
Erikson said that when you are a teenager, your main goal is to find your . .
a)
Trust
b)
Calling
c)
Identity
d)
Integrity
33.
Prejudice is a(n) _____ while discrimination is a(n) _____.
a)
behavior; attitude
b)
instinct; choice
c)
attitude; behavior
d)
choice; instinct
34.

How many stages of development are there in Erik Erikson's theory?

a)

9

b)

8

c)

10

d)

7

35.

the scientific study of how a person's thoughts, feelings, and behavior are influenced by the real, imagined, or implied presence of others

a)

social psychology

b)

social cognition

c)

social influence

d)

social identification

36.
The process of taking in new information and adding it to what the child already knows is called __________
a)
accommodation
b)
schemata
c)
assimilation
d)
all of the above
37.
Peek-a-boo works on children in what stage?
a)
Sensorimotor
b)
Preoperational
c)
Concrete Operational
d)
Formal Operational
38.

Comparing the four grade levels in a high school in terms of academic maturity would be using the ___ research method

a)

longitudinal

b)

survey

c)

naturalistic observation

d)

cross sectional

39.
The natural physical development that occurs automatically and in a sequential manner as a result of genetics is . . .
a)
Childhood
b)
Maturation
c)
Puberty
d)
Aging
40.

Influential psychologist conducting research on operant conditioning; animals and humans can be trained using positive and negative reinforcement; as well as positive and negative punishment.

a)

B.F. Skinner

b)

Albert Bandura

c)

John Garcia

d)

Walter Mischel

41.
Define conditioned response
a)
A response that does not have to be learned
b)
A response that has been learned
c)
A stimulus that produced the response in an unconditioned reflex
d)
A form of learning
42.
A little girl gets to eat dessert because she finished all the food on her plate. This is an example of:  
a)
Positive punishment
b)
Negative punishment
c)
Positive Reinforcement
d)
Negative Reinforcement