Exam 2: Theories of Development

Which of the following is considered to be the major weakness of psychoanalytic theories?

According to social-cognitive theory, in order to learn from a model what factors must be present?

Jan likes to fix her own breakfast, but the milk carton is too heavy for her to manage on her own. Her mother pours milk into a special pump dispenser just for Jan. Which of the following has Jan's mother provided?

Which of the following theorists is known for the development of sociocultural theory?

Behavior is more likely to reoccur if

Freud is to psychosexual as Erikson is to ________.

________ studies animals in their natural environment.

In classical conditioning, if the sour taste of lemon juice automatically causes your mouth to pucker, the lemon juice is the ________ and the pucker of lips and tongue is the ________.

Niko plans to go to a good college. He seems unconcerned about competitive admissions policies because he believes that if he studies hard, he can get in wherever he wants. Bandura would consider this an example of which of the following?

What is the purpose of defense mechanisms according to psychoanalytic theory?

"Little Albert" was a subject of whose research?

Which of the following is one of Piaget's stages of development?

All learning theories rely on the principle that development results from an accumulation of ________.

According to Freud's model of personality, which of the following best demonstrates the functioning of the id?

The underlying principle of classical conditioning is teaching an organism to exhibit a biologically programmed reflex in response to a ________ stimulus.

In Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory, my immediate family, my job, and my dogs are all part of my ________.

Piaget believed that children use both assimilation and accommodation to create schemes that fit the reality of their environments. Which of the following terms did he use to describe this process?

At which stage of development would a 25-year-old adult be in Erikson's theory? Name the crisis to be resolved in this stage and give an example of this resolution.

Psychosocial is to ________ as Psychoanalytic is to ________.

Which of the following is the best example of extinction?