CPCE Exam study

Question 1

What is Developmental Psychology?

Answer 1

The study of how people’s thoughts, behaviors, emotions, and relationships change as they grow and age.

Question 2

What are the 3 types of development?

Answer 2

Cognitive, Emotional, and Social.

Question 3

What is Cognition

Answer 3

the thought process of a person

Question 4

Developmental Theories

Answer 4

provide a set of guiding principles and concepts that describe and explain human development

Question 5

Psychoanalytic Theory

Answer 5

examine the factors that motivate behavior by focusing on the role of the unconscious

Question 6

Sigmund Freud

Answer 6

Iceberg: Superego, Ego, and ID and Psychosexual Development:

Psychoanalytic theories

Question 7

Erik Erikson

Answer 7

Psychosocial Development

Question 8

Ivan Pavlov

Answer 8

Classical Conditioning

Question 9

B.F. Skinner

Answer 9

Operant conditioning

Question 10

Albert Bandura

Answer 10

Social Learning Theory

Question 11

Cognitive Development Theories

Answer 11

are concerned with the development of thought processes, and how these thought processes helps us understand the world around us

Question 12

Jean Piaget

Answer 12

child development: Stages if cognitive development

Question 13

Systems Theories

Answer 13

look at how people interact with their environment, and how these interactions relate to biological factors and to behavior

Question 14

Charles Darwin

Answer 14

Evolutionary Developmental Psychology