Grade: 73 / 100 Human Growth and Development Content Exam

Freud's stages are are psychosexual while Erik Erikson's stages are

psychosocial

In Freud's psychodynamic theory instincts are emphasized. Erik Erikson is an ego psychologist. Ego psychologists

believe in man's powers of reasoning to control behaviors.

The only psychoanalyst who created a developmental theory which encompasses the entire life span was

Erik Erikson

The statement "the ego is dependent on the id" would most likely reflect the work of

Sigmund Freud, who created psychodynamic theory.

Jean Piaget created his idiographic approach theory with four stages. The correct order from stage 1 to stage 4 is

sensorimotor, preoperations, concrete operations, formal operations.

Some behavioral scientists have been critical of Swiss child psychologist Jean Piaget's developmental research inasmuch as

his findings were often derived from observing his own children.

A tall skinny pitcher of water is emptied into a small squatty pitcher. A child indicates that she feels the small pitcher has less water. The child has not yet mastered

conservation

In Piagetian literature, conservation would most likely refer to

volume or mass.

A child masters conservation in the Piagetian stage known as

concrete operations - ages 7-11 years.

______________ expanded on Piaget's conceptualization of moral development.

Lawrence Kohlberg

According to Jean Piaget, a child masters the concept of reversibility in the third stage, known as concrete operations or concrete operational thought. This notion suggests

one can undo an action, hence an object (say a glass of water) can return to its initial shape.

During a thunderstorm, a 6-year-old child in Piaget's stage of preoperational thought (stage 2) says, "The rain is following me." This is an example of

egocentrism

Lawrence Kohlberg suggested

three levels of morality.

The Heinz dilemma is to Kohlberg's theory as

a typing test is to the level of typing skill mastered.

The term identity crisis comes from the work of

Erikson.

Kohlberg's three levels of morality are

preconventional, conventional, postconventional.

Trust versus mistrust is

Erikson's first stage of psychosocial development.

A person who has successfully mastered Erikson's first seven stages would be ready to enter Erikson's final or eighth stage,

integrity versus despair.

In Kohlberg's first or preconventional level, the individual's moral behavior is guided by

consequences

Kohlberg's second level of morality is known as conventional morality. This level is characterized by

a desire to live up to society's expectations., a desire to conform.

Kohlberg's highest level of morality is termed postconventional morality. Here the individual

has self-imposed morals and ethics.

According to Lawrence Kohlberg, level 3, which is postconventional or self-accepted moral principles,

is the highest level of morality. However, some people never reach this level.

The zone of proximal development

was pioneered by Lev Vygotsy.

Freud and Erikson

could be classified as maturationists.

John Bowlby, the British psychiatrist, is most closely associated with

bonding and attachment.

In which Erikson stage does the midlife crisis occur?

Generativity versus stagnation.

The researcher who is well known for his work with maternal deprivation and isolation in rhesus monkeys is

Harry Harlow.

The statement "Males are better than females when performing mathematical calculations" is

true accodring to research by Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin.

The Eriksonian stage that focuses heavily on sharing your life with another person is

intimacy versus isolation - ages 23-34 years.

We often refer to individuals as conformists. Which of these individuals would most likely conform to his or her peers?

A 13-year-old male middle school student.

In Harry Harlow's experiments with baby monkeys

the baby monkey was more likely to cling to a terry-cloth surrogate mother than a wire surrogate mother.

Freud postulated the psychosexual stages:

oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital.

In adolescence

males commit suicide more often than females, but females atempt suicide more often.

In the general U.S. population

suicide rates tend to increase with age.

The fear of death

is greatest during middle age.

In Freudian theory, attachment is a major factor

which evolves primarily during the oral stage.

When comparing girls to boys, it could be noted that, in general

girls grow up to smile more., girls are using more feeling words by age 2.,girls are better able to read people without verbal cues at any age.

The Freudian developmental stage which "least" emphasizes sexuality is

latency.

In terms of parenting young children

boys are punished more than girls.

When developmental theorists speak of nature or nurture they really mean

how much heredity or environment interact to influence development.

Stage theorists assume

qualitative changes between stages occur.

Development

is a continuuing process which begins at conception.

Development is cephalocaudal, which means

head to foot.

Heredity is the transmission of traits from parents to their offspring and

assumes the normal person has 23 pairs of chromosomes.,assumes that heredity characteristics are transmitted by chromosomes.,assumes that genes composed of DNA hold a genetic code.

Piaget's final stage is known as the formal operational stage. In this stage

abstract thinking emerges., problems can be solved using deduction.

Kohlberg lists ______________ stages of moral development which fall into _______________ levels.

6; 3

A person who lives by his or her individual conscience and universal ethical principles

has, according to Kohlberg, reached the highest stage of moral development., is in the postconventional level of self-accepted moral principles.

Freud's Oedipus complex (or Oedipus stage)

is the stage in which fantasies of sexual relations with the opposite-sex parent occur., is the stage in which fantasies of sexual relations with the opposite-sex parent occur.

In girls the Oedipus complex may be referred to as

the Electra complex.

The correct order of the Freudian psychosexual or libidinal stages is:

oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital.

Eleanor Gibson researched the matter of depth perception in children by utilizing

an apparatus known as a visual cliff.

Theorists who believe that development merely consists of quantitative changes are referred to as

empiricists.

An empiricist view of development would be

behavioristic.

In the famous experiment by Harry Harlow, frightened monkeys raised via cloth and wire mothers

ran over and clung to the cloth and wire surrogate mothers.

A theorist who views developmental changes as quantitative is said to be an empiricist. The antithesis of this position holds that developmental strides are qualitative. What is the name given to this position?

Organicism.

In Piaget's developmental theory, reflexes play the greatest role in the

sensorimotor stage.

A mother hides a toy behind her back and a young child does not believe the toy exists anymore. The child has not mastered

object permanence.,representational thought.

The schema (i.e., a mental representation of the real world) of permanency and constancy of objects occurs in the

preoperational stage - ages 2-7 years.

John Bowlby has asserted that

conduct disorders and other forms of psychopathology can result from inadequate attachment and bonding in early childhood.

The Harlow experiments utilizing monkeys demonstrated that animals placed in isolation during the first few months of life

appeared to be autistic.

According to the Freudians, if a child is severely traumatized, he or she may __________________ a given psychosexual stage.

become fixated at

An expert who has reviewed the literature on videos and violence would conclude that

watching violence tends to make children more aggressive.

A counselor who utilizes the term instinctual technically means

behavior that manifests itself in all normal members of a given species.

The word ethology, which is often associated with the work of Konrad Lorenz, refers to

the study of animals' behaivor in their natural environment.

A child who focuses exclusively on a clown's red nose but ignores the clown's other features would be illustrating the Piagetian concept of

centration.

Piaget felt

that teachers should lecture less, as children in concrete operations learn best via their own actions and experimentation.

Piaget's preoperational stage

includes the acquisition of a symbolic schema.

Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson agreed that

each developmental stage needed to be resolved before an individual could move on to the next stage.

The tendency for adult females in the United States to wear high heels is best explained by

sex-role socialization.

The sequence of object loss, which goes from protest to despair to detachment, best describes the work of

Bowlby

A counselor who is seeing a 15-year-old boy who is not doing well in public speaking class would need to keep in mind that

in general, girls possess better verbal skills than boys.,in general, boys have better visual-perceptual skills and are more active and aggressive than girls.

Two brothers begin screaming at each other during a family counseling session. The term that best describes the phenomenon is

sibling rivalry

A preschool child's concept of causality is said to be animistic. This means the child attributes human characteristics to inanimate objects. Thus, the child may fantasize than an automobile or a rock is talking to them. This concept is best related to

Piaget's preoperational period, ages 2-7 years.

Elementary school counseling and guidance services

are a fairly new development which did not begin to gain momentum until the late 1960s.

Research related to elementary school counselors indicates that

these counselors are effective, do make a difference in children's lives, and more counselors should be employed.

According to Yale research by Daniel J. Levinson

80% of the men in the study experienced moderate to severe midlife crises.,an "age 30 crisis" occurs in men when they feel it will soon be too late to make later changes.

Erikson's middle-age stage (ages 35-60) is known as generativity versus stagnation. Generativity refers to

the ability to do creative work or raise a family., the opposite of stagnation, the productive ability to create a career, family, and leisure time.

A person who can look back on his or her life with few regrets feels

ego-integrity in Erikson's integrity versus despair stage.

Sensorimotor is to Piaget as oral is to Freud, and as ____________ is to Erikson.

trust verus mistrust

Which theorist was most concerned with maternal deprivation?

H. Harlow

When development comes to a halt, counselors say that the client

suffers from fixation.

Kohlberg proposed three levels of morality. Freud, on the other hand, felt morality developed from the

superego

Which theorist would be most likely to sat that aggression is an inborn tendency?

Konrad Lorenz.

The statement "bad behavior is punished, good behavior is not" is most closely associated with

Kohlberg's premoral stage at the preceonventional level.

A critical period

makes imprinting possible., signifies a special time when a behavior must be learned or the behavior won't be learned at all.

Imprinting - rapid learning during a critical period of development - is an instinct in which a newborn will follow a moving object. The primary work in this area was done by

Konrad Lorenz.

Marital satisfaction

often decreases with parenthood and often improves after a child leaves home.

Maslow, a humanistic psychologist, is famous for his "hierarchy of needs," which postulates

lower-order physiological and safety needs and higher-order needs, such as self-actualization.

To research the dilemma of self-actualization, Maslow

interviewed the best people he could find who escaped "the psychology of the average.

Piaget is

a structuralist who believes stage changes are qualitative.

_________________ factors cause Down Syndrome, the most common type known as trisomy 21.

Genetic

Piaget referred to the act of taking in new information as assimilation. This results in accommodation, which is a modification of the child's cognitive structures (schemas) to deal with the new information. In Piagetian nomenclature, the balance between

equilibration.

There are behavioral, structural, and maturational theories of development. The maturational viewpoint utilizes the plant growth analogy, in which the mind is seen as being driven by instincts while the environment provides nourishment, thus placing limit

allow clients to work through early conflicts.

Ritualistic behaviors, which are common at all members of a species, are known as

fixed-action patterns elicited by sign stimuli.

Robert Kegan speaks of a "holding environment" in counseling in which

the client can make meaning in the face of a crisis and can find new direction.

Most experts in the field of counseling agree that

no one theory completely explains developmental processes; thus, counselors ought to be familiar with all the major theories.

Equilibration is

the balance between what one takes in (assimiliation) and that which is changed (accommodation).

A counselor is working with a family who just lost everything in a fire. The counselor will ideally focus on

Maslow's lower-order needs, such as physiological and safety needs.

The anal retentive personality is

stingy.

From a Freudian perspective, a client who has a problem with alcoholism and excessive smoking would be

considered an oral character.