Exam 1: Exploring Child Development

Erik Erikson's psychosocial theory is primarily concerned with _______________.

High versus low is one of Erikson's Eight Stages of Psychosocial Development.

As an infant, Amy has positive interactions with nurturing parents. According to Erikson, Amy would have learned that _______________.

The chronosystem represents the effects of _______________.

Socioemotional development is best described as how _______________.

Which of the following is an example of physical development?

Freud's most controversial proposal involved a phenomenon called the Oedipus complex, which occurs during the _______________.

Which of the following events occurs most often, on a typical day in the United States?

At school, and with his friends, Jose speaks English. While at home, he speaks Spanish with his parents and sister. Jose's experiences with two languages illustrate the influence of __________________ on child development.

Observer bias occurs when _______________.

Mary wanted to research how stress impacted a student's ability to consolidate new memories. She had planned to split participants into two groups. Both groups of students were to study a one-page speech. The control group would be allowed to study unimpeded, but for the experimental group, while they were attempting to memorize the words, she would repeatedly shock them on the hand. She hoped that she would then be able to compare how well students from the two groups memorized the speech. After further reflection, Mary decided that the data that she would collect would not have enough value scientifically to be worth subjecting these participants to high levels of shock. What ethical principle guided Mary's decision NOT to conduct her experiment?

Vygotsky's sociocultural theory proposes that our ____________ derive from the social speech that we hear in the culture around us.

The theory that focuses on how language and society influence the growth of thought in children is the _______________.

A dynamic systems theorist who studies how infants learn to walk is likely to _______________.

The field of study in which researchers from many disciplines work to describe and understand physical, cognitive, and social changes in children as they grow is called _______________.

Through identification, the child acquires the superego of the opposite-sex parent.

Which of the following questions would be MOST relevant to information-processing researchers?

When an originally neutral stimulus can elicit a learned response, the neutral stimulus is now called ________.

Which of the following examples might be studied by a positive psychologist?

Dynamic systems theorists often use __________________ to understand complex systems of development.