Exam 2: Theories of Human Development

Anthony believes that his daughter Cleopatra acts the way she does because of the unconscious workings of her mind. This belief best matches with the _____ theory of development.

Elizabeth tells her daughter Taylor, "I will stop this nagging, which you find unpleasant, as soon as you clean your room today and continue to clean it in the future." This description indicates that Elizabeth is trying to use

Freudians believe that boys love their mothers and fear castration by their fathers in a process called the _____ complex.

In Watson and Raynor's study on Little Albert, a white rat served as the

What in the past was often called school phobia is now referred to as

The fact that Goober believes in different stages of development indicates that he views human development as reflecting

Erikson and Freud both have psychoanalytic theories of development. What are the key similarities and differences of their approaches?

Because Dr. Smith falls on the "nurture" side of the nature-nurture controversy, she is most likely to believe that

School refusal behavior

Use Freud's stages of psychosexual development to discuss the development of a child from birth through age 25. Be sure to include at least one example of fixation.

When describing her theory of development, Candice says, "The basic idea is that I take a stimulus that at first has no effect on an individual. Then I pair that stimulus with a second stimulus that does elicit some response. After the two have been paired together a few times, I test to see if the initial stimulus now elicits a response similar to the one elicited by the second stimulus." Given this description, Candice would be best classified as a(n) _____ conditioning theorist.

The theorist most associated with a learning theory approach to development is

What is vicarious reinforcement?

If effective, negative reinforcement leads to an increase in the frequency of a behavior.

Which is the correct order of the psychosexual stages of development?

When exhibiting repression, an individual expresses motives that are just the opposite of their real motives.

Learning theory explanations for school refusal include all of the following EXCEPT

The theorist most associated with cognitive developmental theory is

A major issue with Watson and Raynor's experiment is that

Five-year-old Greta envies the fact that her father has something she doesn't, a penis. Freud referred to what Greta is experiencing as a(n) _____ complex.