CPCE Flashcards
Erik Erikson’s stages of development are
Psychosocial
Eco psychologists
Believe in man’s powers of reasoning to control behavior
Psychodynamic theories
Focus on unconscious processes rather than cognitive factors
Psychoanalyst that created a developmental theory which encompassed the entire lifespan
Erik Erikson
Jean Piaget’s idiographic approach stages
Sensorimotor, preoperations, concrete operations, formal operations
Notion that a substance’s weight, mass, and volume stay the same even if it changes shape
Conservation
Children master conservation and concept of reversability during
Concrete stage (7-11)
A system which permits the child to test out things in the physical world
Schema
Who expanded on Piaget’s conceptualization of moral development?
Lawrence Kohlberg
Who disagreed with Piaget’s notion that developmental stages take place naturally?
Lev Vygotsky
Who insisted that the stages unfold due to educational intervention.
Lev Vygotsky
one can undo an action, hence an object (say a glass of water) can return to its initial shape.
Reversability
conveys the fact that the child cannot view the world from the vantage point of someone else.
Egocentrism
Kohlberg’s theory has three levels of moral development:
preconventional, conventional, and post-conventional
The term identity crisis comes from the work of
Erik Erikson
Erikson’s final stage of development
Integrity vs. despair
Who was the zone of proximal development pioneered by
Lev Vygotsky
She difference between a child’s performance without a teacher versus that which he or she is capable of with an instructor
Zone of proximal development
Which psychoanalysts were maturationists
Freud and Erikson
Suggests that behavior is guided exclusively via hereditary factors, but that certain behaviors will not manifest themselves until the necessary stimuli are present in the environment
Maturation Theory
John Bowlby, the British psychiatrist, is most closely associated with
Bonding and attachment
The researcher who is well known for his work with maternal deprivation and isolation in rhesus monkeys is
Harry Harlow
Freud’s psychosexual stages
Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
In the general U.S. population
Suicide rates increase with age
Attachment evolves
Primarily during the oral stage
Nature refers to
Hereditery
Nurture refers to
Environment
Stage theorists assume
Qualitative changes between stages occur
A continuous process that begins at contraception
Development
Cephalocaudal
Head to foot
The portion of a trait that can be explained via genetic factors
Heritability
Kohlberg list________ stages of moral development
6
Kohlberg’s stages of moral development fall into ______ levels
3
Punishment/obedience orientation and stage 2: naïve hedonism (also called instrumental or egotistic) orientation
Preconventional with stage 1 and 2
Good boy/good girl orientation and stage 4: authority, law, and order orientation. This entire level is often known as “morality of conventional rules and conformity.”
Conventional with stage 3 and 4
Democratically accepted law or “social contract” and stage 6: principles of self-conscience and universal ethics.
Post-conventional with stage 5 and 6
Is the stage in which fantasies of sexual relations with the opposite-sex parent occur and happens during the phallic stage
Oedipus Complex
Oedipus complex in girls is called
The Electra Complex
Any psychological process which cannot be directly observed
Covert
The client is exposed to an actual situation which might prove frightful or difficult
In vivo
Behavior therapy techniques that help to ameliorate anxiety reactions
Desensitization
Eleanor Gibson researched the matter of depth perception in children by utilizing
An apparatus known as the visual cliff
Theorists who believe that development consists of quantitative changes
Empiricists
What grew out of the philosophy of John Locke in the 1600s and is sometimes referred to as associationism.
Empiricism
An empiricist view of development would be
Behavioristic
What position holds that developmental strides are qualitative?
Organicism
The schema (i.e., a mental representation of the real world) of permanency and constancy of objects occurs in the
The sensorimotor stage (age birth-2)
Focusing on a key feature of a given object or situation while not noticing the rest of it.
Centration