Exam 2: Theory and Research

As an adult,Mary spends considerable time each day cleaning her apartment,arranging her socks in a drawer until they are just right,and making schedules on a calendar.According to Freud,Mary is probably fixated in the __________ stage.

A strong correlation between variables does not necessarily mean that one variable __________ the other.

According to Erikson,the resolution of the crisis at each stage of psychosocial development must include a _______ between positive and negative traits.

Edwin is learning to ride his bike.Each time that he rides onto the gravel driveway,he loses control of the bike and falls.Eventually Edwin will no longer ride in the driveway.This example represents the learning process of

Dr.Ellie Cheetham follows the same group of children over a 10-year period,measuring their performance twice a year.This is which method of data collection?

An in-depth case study of a culture or subculture is an __________ study.

A child learns to whine to get items at the store because when she whines,her parents get frustrated and give her the desired items.She is basically being rewarded for her whining even though her parents do not seem to realize this and are frustrated because the whining is increasing.This is an example of ______ conditioning.

The subjects who receive the treatment or independent variable in an experimental study are called the

In a study of the effects of behavior modeling,one group of children observes role models who share toys;another group observes role models whose behavior is neutral (neither initiating sharing nor refusing to share).What is the independent variable?

A therapeutic approach aimed at giving patients insight into their unconscious conflicts is called

Suppose you asked the following two questions of a group of 100 children: "How much time do your parents spend reading to you each day?" and "What are your grades in school?" You find that children whose parents read to them for more than one hour each day have better grades than children whose parents read to them for only a few minutes each day.What could you conclude from this pattern of data?

Freud's theory on human development states that people develop in an unvarying sequence of maturationally determined stages of __________ development.

The subjects who do NOT receive the treatment or independent variable in an experimental study are called the

Which of the following is NOT part of the personality as proposed by Freud?

A problem associated with the interview method is that