Deck 15: Schachtel on Childhood Experiences

Question 1

Which most bothered Schachtel?

A) the way adults label things for children
B) adults' failure to explain things to children
C) adult failures to teach children the ways of society
D) excessive adult indulgence of childhood curiosity

Answer 1

A

Question 2

According to Schachtel, the autocentric senses include

A) smell and vision
B) hearing and vision
C) smell and taste
D) hearing and touch

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Like Rousseau, Schachtel

A) offered a detailed plan for educating the child
B) took a dim view of the well-socialized adult
C) wrote at length about the forces underlying development
D) said reason develops more slowly than we usually think

Answer 3

B

Question 4

In Schachtel's view, the child from 1 to 5 years approaches the world

A) through conventional categories
B) largely through taste and touch
C) through the autocentric senses
D) with openness

Question 5

According to the text, research suggests childhood amnesia

A) really exists
B) isn't well documented
C) is valid prior to the age of 2 years
D) is still just a tentative hypothesis

Question 6

Schachtel proposed that infantile amnesia primarily occurs

A) because we cannot classify preverbal experiences
B) because we repress sexual and aggressive memories
C) because we repress sexual but not necessarily aggressive fantasies
D) because of differences between long-term and short-term memory

Question 7

Compared to most developmental psychologists, Schachtel was more

A) maturational
B) environmental
C) cognitive
D) Phenomenological

Question 8

On the topic of infantile amnesia, Schachtel expanded on Freud. Freud saw infantile amnesia is primarily due to

A) long-term memory loss
B) pathology
C) repression
D) voluntary forgetting