Exam 2: Classical Theories of Social and Personality Development

Perhaps the major reason so many developmentalists today have turned away from the psychoanalytic approach is that

The rational component of the personality is the

Freud believed that it was during the _____ stage when children would experience incestuous desires for the opposite-sex parent and a hostile rivalry with the same-sex parent.

Freud suggested that the ego is the component of personality that

_____ provides the philosophical underpinnings of Freud's psychoanalytic theory

According to Freud, early experiences can have a long-term effect on personality development if a child becomes obsessed with the activities of a particular psychosexual stage and _____ them.

According to Bandura, the child acquires _____ when he or she learns by observation.

To start off down the road in your standard-shift automobile, you let out the clutch and simultaneously depress the accelerator. According to Piaget, this sequence is best described as a(n) _____.

A major way in which we construct a sense of self-worth is to compare ourselves to our peers to see if we perform better or worse than they do in a variety of areas. What intellectual capabilities would promote this kind of social comparison and where in Piaget's stages of intellectual development could we expect these capabilities to blossom?

Children should first be prepared to learn a great deal from social models

Finding the china cabinet open, an infant throws each dish onto the floor, slightly varying the angle of each "throw" and observing whether or not the throw causes the dish to break. This behavior is best characterized as

Legitimate criticisms of Freud's theory include

A young boy who argues that he could become a mommy someday if he really wants to

One recurring criticism of Erikson's theory is that it

Erikson believed that the main developmental crisis of the first year centered around

Piaget believed that _____ schemes first appear as the child begins to internalize his/her _____ schemes.

A child discovers that she can make a toy duck quack by squeezing it, and she repeats this act over and over to hear the sound that the duck makes. According to Piaget, this child

Describe Piaget's view of object permanence and its development. How is object permanence thought to be related to early social development?

According to Piaget, _____ represents the first sign of the infant's emerging object concept.

Watson's experiment with little Albert demonstrated that