Exam 2: Classical Theories of Social and Personality Development

Freud's use of dream analysis was based on the notion that

Developmentalists are indebted to Freud for

Asked to choose between two cookies of equal size, Jan takes the broken cookie, saying that three little cookies are more than one big one. Jan lacks

According to Piaget, intelligence is

Grade-school children tend to learn more from social models than pre?schoolers do because they

According to Freud, a boy will acquire an appropriately "masculine" identity as he _____ with his father and resolves his _____ complex.

A basic tenet of Piaget's theory that virtually all his critics accept is that

Why might adolescents become more idealistic as they make the transition to formal operations? How might this influence parent-child relations?

Skinner's theory of social learning contends that

The advance that Piaget saw as underlying such notable sensorimotor achievements as inner experimentation and deferred imitation was

Bandura believes that _____ is the primary determinant of our willingness to perform responses we have learned through observation.

A child's capacity for deferred imitation first appears

Freud suggested that the id seeks:

A child who feels bad because she is not living up to her "ideal self" and hence is not as good a person as she ought to be has reached Piaget's _____ of intellectual development.

According to Piaget, assimilation and accommodation are components of a process called _____. They often occur together to _____.

A child correctly arranges three wooden blocks in order of size, yet cannot decide which is biggest when told city X is bigger than city Y, which is bigger than city Z. This child's behavior is typical of Piaget's _____ of intellectual development.

Unlike other social-learning theorists, Albert Bandura claims that one need not perform a response or be reinforced for its performance in order to learn that response. Describe the evidence that supports this claim. According to Bandura, what role does reinforcement play in observational learning?

By the end of the sensorimotor stage, children are capable of

According to Freud, the superego is the _____ aspect of personality that _____.

Once she has achieved the stage of concrete operations, a girl should be able to