Exam 1: History, Theories, and Methods

According to Freudian psychoanalytic theory, a nail-biting adult is "fixated" during which stage of development?

What was the rationale for the first intelligence test?

Which statement is characteristic of Piaget's work?

Ethical guidelines dictate that research participants' identities remain confidential.

In operant conditioning, which of the following responses to a child's behaviour will result in its extinction?

What was the primary focus of John Watson's behaviourism theory?

John Watson, founder of American behaviourism, believed that children were born with all they needed to know for life.

According to ethologists, fixed action patterns are learned behaviours.

Alfred Binet developed the first intelligence test to identify which children may fall behind in school.

The information-processing perspective describes how memory and problem-solving work. What is used as a metaphor for describing these processes?

Each of Erikson stages of development was assigned a specific name. What were his labels based on?

According to Freudian psychosexual theory, children develop significant sexual attachments to the same-sex parent during the genital stage.