Exam 1: Goals, Theories, and Methods

A boy brings a doll everywhere he goes. He sees other boys playing with blocks and never dolls. The boy puts his doll away and joins the other boys. According to Bandura, the boy did this because

Cindy walks into preschool and sees boys playing on one side of the room and girls playing on the other side of the room, which affects how she thinks about boys and girls playing together. A few days later, she sees two boys pretending in the playhouse with girls and this causes Cindy to adjust her schema on how boys and girls play. Explain what happened to Cindy's schema.

A researcher wants to measure the frequency of cyberbullying at different grade levels at an elementary school. Which type of study should be applied?

Why might children be influenced by physical and/or social settings, customs, beliefs, and views of caregivers in their home?

A developmental systems theorist is most likely to hold that human behavior is shaped by

Which theorist claimed that children have an innate ability to rapidly acquire language?

Which approach would limit the generalizability of study findings to the population of interest?

A 31-year-old struggles with self-confidence and loneliness but desires to have an intimate relationship and share a family with someone. According to Erikson's psychosocial stage theory, which stage is this person experiencing conflict and how can it be resolved?

Benita is trying to replace her cravings to smoke by drinking a juice that she hates anytime she feels a craving. She is hoping this will decrease her smoking behavior. This type of conditioning is known as

A group of researchers attempted to recreate several studies with identical procedures. These researchers discovered that most repeated studies were unable to match the original results. This shows a problem in which phenomenon?

Discovery-based science allows for a new way of learning why teens behave a certain way. Which reflects a discovery-based approach to this question?