WorksheetsPsychology and Development Quiz
Total questions: 42
Worksheet time: 23mins
This person created the theories of moral development.
Kohlberg
Skinner
Piaget
Albert
Emerging Adulthood occurs during what ages?
13 - 19
18 - mid 20s
21 - 30
16 - 21
This has to do with environment and culture.
Nature
Conservation
Nurture
Temperament
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.
Concrete operational
Formal operational
Preoperational
Sensorimotor
_______ development involves growth and changes in the body and brain, the senses, motor skills, and health and wellness.
Cognitive
Learning
Physical
Psychosocial
This relates to optimal levels of physiological arousal required to perform either simple or complex tasks.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Piaget’s Theory of Motivation
Yerkes-Dodson Law
Skinner’s Behavioral Matrix
Sweating and shivering are responses created due to internal temperature fluctuations, and they are designed to bring the body back into _______.
Alignment
Homeostasis
Balance
Equilibrium
The need for ______ encourages Mr. Barnhart to complete a PsyD., so he can add another accomplishment to his list of accolades.
Achievement
Affiliation
Intimacy
Power
According to Freud, our personalities can be broken down into 3 parts:
Ego, Superego, and Id
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
Personal, Formal, Informal
Conscious, Unconscious, Subconscious
Self-actualization is considered to be a core part of the development of one's personality according to which approach?
Humanistic
Learning
Freudian
Neo-Freudian
______ is a state of being in which our thoughts about our real and ideal selves are very similar.
Congruence
Egotism
Incongruence
Self-efficacy
Which of the following was one of Alfred Adler’s main contributions to personality theory?
Advocating for analytical psychology
Suggesting that our birth order shapes our personality
The idea that men have womb envy
The theory that our personality develops in psychosocial stages
________ describes a proportion of difference among people that is attributed to genetics.
Heritability
Personality
Temperament
Trait
Which of the following best defines Social Psychology?
It studies the way people make friends.
It examines how people affect one another.
It looks at why people do what they do.
It finds out how people figure out what to buy.
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.
Door-in-the-face
Bait-and-switch
Down-then-up
Foot-in-the-door
The ______ hypothesis is the ideology common in the United States that people get the outcomes they deserve.
Equal status
Come-uppance
Just-world
Fairness
What was the main conclusion drawn from the Stanford prison experiment?
Social roles are powerful determinants of human behavior
Students cannot be relied upon to act appropriately
Students cannot be trusted in roles of authority
When operating in a group, some people will put forth less effort than if they were operating alone
What program do I-O psychologists commonly use to help people identify a good career fit?
KSAO
O*NET
Indeed
Handshake
Roughly how much of our lives are spent working?
All of it
3/2
2/5
1/3
Which important legislation protected employees against discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin?
The Supreme Court Ruling in the case of Griggs v. Duke Power Company
The Equal Pay Act
The 1964 Civil Rights Act, Title VII
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
The notion that workers tend to show an increase in performance when they know that they are being observed is called the _______ effect.
Flynn effect
Hawthorne effect
Taylor effect
Munsterberg effect
What area are human factors psychologists researching when they study what steps people take to successfully wash their hands before performing surgery?
Attention
Cognitive engineering
Cognitive analysis
Task analysis
A psychological disorder is a _______.
Condition characterized by abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
Condition characterized by normal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
Medical condition that has identifiable neurological causes
Set of situational, idiosyncratic, or unconventional inner feelings
What is comorbidity?
A co-occurrence of two disorders
Having two causes for a single disorder
Having two causes of death
Mental disorder leading to death
Which of the following is an example of a diathesis-stress model?
Ozzie has a genetic predisposition towards depression, but he did not experience depression until his mother and father died.
Ozzie treats his depression by exposing himself to a series of stressors so he can learn coping skills.
Ozzie treats his manic episodes by using medication to induce depression.
Ozzie’s doctor does not believe that mental illness has a biological basis.
Which of the following is the term for partial or total forgetting of some experience or event?
Depersonalization
Derealization
Dissociative Amnesia
Disorganization
In Medieval times, what would be the most likely form of treatment for someone suffering the symptoms of a psychological illness?
Bloodletting
Exorcism
Trephination
The “spinning technique”
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?
Confidentiality
Disclosure
Discretion
Privilege
A person who suffers from cocaine use disorder as well as bipolar disorder has a ______ situation.
Polysubstance
Incidental
Prevalent
Comorbid
What medication type is used to treat Schizophrenia and thought disorders?
Anti-depressants
Mood stabilizers
Stimulants
Antipsychotics
How many stages of development are there in Erik Erikson's theory?
9
8
10
7
the scientific study of how a person's thoughts, feelings, and behavior are influenced by the real, imagined, or implied presence of others
social psychology
social cognition
social influence
social identification
Comparing the four grade levels in a high school in terms of academic maturity would be using the ___ research method
longitudinal
survey
naturalistic observation
cross sectional
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.
B.F. Skinner
Albert Bandura
John Garcia
Walter Mischel
