Chapter Five

Question 1

Harlow’s Experiment

Answer 1

monkeys preferred cloth mother over mother with food (contact comfort)

Question 2

Critical Period

Answer 2

an optimal period early in the life of an organism when exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces normal development

Question 3

Assimilation

Answer 3

interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas

Question 4

Accommodation

Answer 4

adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information

Question 5

Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development

Answer 5

children don’t have the ability to think abstract thoughts

Question 6

Sensorimotor Stage

Answer 6

experiencing the world through senses and actions
birth-2 yrs
stranger anxiety associated with this stage

Question 7

Preoperational Stage

Answer 7

representing things with words and images; intuition over logic
2-6 or 7
egocentrism assoc. with this stage

Question 8

Concrete Observational Stage

Answer 8

thinking logically about concrete events
7-11
Mathematical transformations

Question 9

Formal Operational Stage

Answer 9

abstract reasoning
12-adult
moral reasoning

Question 10

Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development

Answer 10

Infancy
Toddlerhood (1-3)
Preschool (3-6)
Elementary school (6-puberty) 
Adolescence (teen-20s) 
Young adulthood (20s-early 40s) 
Middle adulthood (40-60)
Late adulthood (late 60s+)

Question 11

Infancy

Answer 11

trust vs. mistrust

Question 12

Toddlerhood

Answer 12

autonomy vs. shame/doubt

Question 13

Preschool

Answer 13

initiative vs. guilt

Question 14

Elementary school

Answer 14

competence vs. inferiority

Question 15

Adolescence

Answer 15

identity vs. role confusion

Question 16

Young adulthood

Answer 16

intimacy vs. isolation

Question 17

Middle adulthood

Answer 17

generativity vs. stagnation

Question 18

Late adulthood

Answer 18

integrity vs. despair

Question 19

Early adulthood

Answer 19

Jeffery Arnett

Erikson’s “Young adulthood” too broad