Exam 1: Exploring Child Development

John Watson was associated with ___________________, an American movement to develop a psychology that was objective and scientific.

________ theories use dynamic models from physics and mathematics to understand complex systems of human development.

Which theorist is associated with the process of operant conditioning?

Sets of multiple correlations that show how several variables relate to each other are called ________.

Which branch of the personality is described as containing the subconscious, primitive sexual, and aggressive instincts?

What are the 3 primary facets or components of development?

Assuming that fixation has not occurred, a teenager should be in which of Freud's five psychosexual stages?

________ development refers to changes in how children think, remember, and communicate.

________ is the field of study in which researchers from many disciplines work to describe and understand the important changes that take place as children grow through childhood.

Unlike Freud, Erikson believed that _______________.

An important distinction between the theories of Watson and Skinner is that while Watson focused on children's reflexive responses to stimuli, Skinner pointed out that children also _______________.

Maria's spring allergies are so intense, even looking at pictures of flowers can make her sneeze. This reaction can be explained by which type of learning theory?

A ________ is a computed number that indicates the direction and strength of an association between two or more variables.

A strong negative correlation between maternal alcohol consumption and newborn birth weight means that _______________.

In Pavlov's experiments, meat powder elicited salivation. Salivation in this case was the _______________.

A researcher wants to determine the effects of sugar consumption on aggressive behavior in children. In his experiment, he has some subjects consume no sugar (water only), some subjects drink 14 oz. of soda, and some subjects drink 28 oz. of soda. He then waits 30 minutes and asks them questions about how aggressively they would behave in certain situations. In this experiment, the level of sugar consumed would be the _______________.

The ________ theories are a group of child development theories that focus on the structure of personality and on how the conscious and unconscious portions of the self influence behavior and development.

A researcher wants to determine a possible cause for a very rare medical disorder, so he flies around the world and interviews the four children who have the disorder. As he interviews each child and his or her family, the researcher is looking for common things that happened to each of these children that might give him clues as to what caused the disease. What type of research is he conducting?

Psychoanalytic theory proposes that the _____________ is present at birth and is inherited from our evolutionary ancestors.

Sarah knows that stealing her friend's homework is wrong. Sigmund Freud would say that this is due to the influence of Sarah's _______________.