Exam 1: Introduction: Theories of Social Development

A theory that explains a person's social behavior in terms of his or her assessment and evaluation of the social situation as a guide deciding on a course of social action is:

Assimilation is applying an existing schema to a new experience

A learning theory that stresses the importance of observation and imitation in the acquisition of new behaviors, with learning mediated by cognitive processes is:

Describe the main ideas underlying life history theory

Which of the following is part of the exosystem?

Cross-domain influences on social development are increasingly recognized. Is this important and why?

Considerable empirical support exists for the Electra complex

A biologically determined process of growth that unfolds over a period of time is:

Applying an existing schema to fit a new experience is called:

One characteristic shared by both Freud's psychosexual stages and Erikson's psychosocial stages is that development continues into late adulthood

A concept that there is a specific time in an organism's development during which external factors have a unique and irreversible impact is:

List the main steps in Bandura's theory of observational learning

The concept of a critical period comes from:

The Oedipus complex happens during which of Freud's developmental stages:

The zone of proximal development refers to:

The collection of settings that impinge on a child's development but in which the child does not play a direct role is the:

Which of the following correctly orders the steps of the information processing model of social behavior:

Object permanence has informed the study of child-to-caregiver attachment

Which of the following is the final stage in psychosocial theory:

A child who lacked an ego would have difficulty in: