Exam 9: Theories of Social Development

Long-standing contributions of psychoanalytic theories to developmental psychology do NOT include:

Which condition would be the MOST interesting to an ethological theorist?

Consistent with research on nonhuman primates and rodents, children who have been exposed to adverse rearing conditions demonstrate disruptions in their:

Compared to Freud's theory, Erikson's theory:

Compare and contrast Freud's and Erikson's perspective on what happens if a child's fundamental needs are not met during a particular stage or if an individual does not successfully resolve the conflict of a particular stage.

According to Freud, girls, but not boys, experience:

According to Erikson, when parents support their toddlers' development of self-control without instigating a loss of self-esteem, toddlers will develop a sense of:

Theories of social development largely omit:

Which characteristic is NOT common among parents who maltreat their children?

According to Erikson, if a person does not successfully resolve the conflict of a particular stage, the person:

_____ is part of the exosystem.

According to Freud, children's experience of the Electra complex involves:

The Oedipus complex occurs during which of Freud's stages?

According to Freud, children begin to identify with their same-sex parent in the _____ stage.

Behaviour modification is a(n):

While Alex is swinging on the school playground's monkey bars, he kicks Michael on the shoulder. If Michael has a hostile attributional bias, he will believe:

Children who demonstrate a mastery orientation in response to failure:

If the ego, as theorized by Freud, could speak, which statement would it be MOST likely to say?

According to Freud, infants are in which stage of development?

Describe the basic principles of Albert Bandura's "social-learning theory." How does his view differ from that of traditional learning theorists? How is it the same?