Human Development Flashcards
The step by step development of person’s genetic endowments over time refers to the concept of
- Heredity
- Maturation
- Environmental stimulus
- Socialization
Maturation
The study of the nonverbal behavior of maintaining appropriate distance between a counselor and client is called
- Proxemics
- Dialectics
- Logistics
- Polemics
Proxemics
In psychoanalysis the movement of psychological content from the conscious to the unconsious mind in order to defend against discomfort is called
- Regression
- Remission
- Revision
- Repression
Repression
When counseling dying persons it is recommended to encourage each of the following EXCEPT
- Expression of anger
- Distractions from the reality of death
- Verbalization of anticipatory sadness
- Remembering of positive life achievements
Distractions from the reality of death
Which of the following developmental tasks is considered appropriate for young adults in their twenties?
- Forming an identity
- Establishing intimate personal relationships
- Building a legacy to leave to one’s heirs
- Consolidating an established career
Establishing intimate personal relationships
The passing of beliefs, behaviors & group characteristics from one generation to the next is a function of
- Culture
- Social studies
- Tribal awareness
- Pluralism
Culture
According to Freud the part of the personality that helps a person deal with reality is called
- The ego
- The id
- The superego
- The Oedipus complex
The Ego
According to Skinner the development of human behavior is most influenced by
- Hereditary influences
- Cognitive distinctions
- Observation of others
- Environmental contingencies
Environmental contingencies
If you wanted to test an idea about human development to determine its accuracy you would formulate it as
- A model
- A hypothesis
- A theory
- An axiom
A hypothesis
When an individual establishes values and practices that are different from his or her parents this is referred to as
- Homeostasis
- Maturation
- Regression
- Differentiation
Differentiation
Which of the following is an appropriate developmental task for middle age?
- Establishing an intimate relationship
- Ego differentiation
- Making a contribution to culture and society
- Constructing a legacy
Making a contribution to culture and society
According to Kohlberg, as children become older effective parenting methods should involve more:
- Confrontation
- Reasoning
- Punishment
- Positive reinforcement
Reasoning
Who coined the term ‘attachment’?
- Piaget
- Skinner
- Ainsworth
- Harlow
- Bowlby
Bowlby
Bobby takes two equal sized cups that are each full of water and pours one cup into a tall thin glass and one cup into a short wide glass. His ways of thinking inform him that taller means more, but also that water does not change just because it is poured from one container to another. If he discarded his conservationist logic and concluded that there was more water in the taller glass, his thinking would have been considered ________ according to Piaget.
- Formal operational
- Sensorimotor
- Pre-operational
- Concrete operational
Pre-operational
If Bobby in question 2 had maintained his belief that the water remains the same despite a change in the physical appearance caused by the different glasses, he would have been exercising the operation known as______.
- Conservation
- Seriation
- Accommodation
- Association
Conservation
Which of the following tasks describes a child’s intellectual accomplishment during Piaget’s concrete operational stage of development
- Developing symbolic processes (e.g., language)
- Think logically and form hypotheses
- Relate via senses and actions; taste and touch
- Apply operations to the manipulation of objects
Apply operations to the manipulation of objects
Bandura lists four sources of self-efficacy. The source of self-efficacy that stresses the importance of there being a similarity between the person and a model is ________.
- Social persuasion
- Vicarious learning
- Positive reinforcement
- Mastery learning
Vicarious learning
According to Bandura, all of the following are characteristics of a student with high self-efficacy EXCEPT______.
- Fosters intrinsic interest and deep engrossment in activities
- Dwells on personal deficiencies and obstacles
- Recovers sense of self-efficacy after failures or setbacks
- Approaches difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than threats to be avoided.
Dwells on personal deficiencies and obstacles
A teacher practices a fire drill with a class many times so that when a fire alarm rings they will know what to do immediately. In behavioral learning theory this is an example of ___________?
- Operant conditioning
- Classical conditioning
- Negative reinforcement
- Extinction
Classical conditioning
When “shaping” is used in teaching a new skill, it is important to:
- Reinforce successive approximations to the target behavior
- Reinforce positively rather than negatively
- Hold back reinforcements until students have mastered the skill
- Reinforce every response in order to encourage students to keep trying
Reinforce successive approximations to the target behavior