Human Growth and Development II Flashcards

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What is a “holding environment”?

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The ability of the client to make meaning in the face of a crisis and find new direction.

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What is representational thought/object constancy?

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the ability of the child to imagine an object in their mind.

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When is the critical period for language acquisition?

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Age 2-14

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What is imprinting?

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This occurs when young ones identify with a figure as their mother.

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What does RS refer to in the counseling field?

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Religion and Spirituality

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In what stage does centration occur?

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Preoperational

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What can result from difficulties in the symbiotic relationship?

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adult psychosis

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What is the zone of proximal development?

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the difference between a child’s performance without a teacher compared with capability with a teacher

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What are Carl Jung’s Animus and Anima?

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Male and Female archetypes for inherited unconscious factors.

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Robert Kegan is well known in what area?

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Adult cognitive development

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What ages are associated with Piaget’s sensorimotor intelligence?

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Birth to 2 years

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What is stage 3 of Kohlberg’s levels of moral development?

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Good boy/Good Girl Orientation (Level 2)

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What is equilibration?

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The balance between assimilation and accomodation

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14
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At what age do children develop stranger anxiety?

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Age 8 months

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What are critical periods in terms of development?

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Periods of time in which certain behaviors must be learned or they will not be learned at all.

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16
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When did elementary school counseling and guidance services become popular?

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The 1960s.

Secondary schools started around 1900s, but this was limited.

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17
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The concept of dualistic thinking is attributed to whom?

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William Perry

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18
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Exposure to early violence, including TV violence, results in what?

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Increased aggression

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19
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In what order do children master elements of conservation?

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Mass –> Weight –> Volume

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20
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According to Freud, during what stage does attachment need to take place?

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the oral stage

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21
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What does heritability mean?

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The portion of a trait which can be attributed to genes.

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According to Lawrence Kohlberg, how many stages of moral development are there?

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Three: Preconventional, Conventional, and Postconventional; however each is broken down into 2 more stages

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23
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Jean Piaget is well-known in what area?

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Childhood cognitive development

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24
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What happens when development halts?

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The client becomes fixated

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25
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Who was responsible for the work on imprinting?

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Konrad Lorenz

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26
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What is a maturationist?

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behavior is guided by hereditary factors but won’t manifest until prompted by stimuli in the environment

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What is dualistic thinking?

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The belief that things are either good or bad, right or wrong; black and white thinking.

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28
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Who is associated with learned helplessness?

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Martin Seligman

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29
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Ego identity is what?

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A term associated with Erikson’s 5th stage in which the person needs to integrade all of their previous roles to create their identity.

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30
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What did David Levinson’s research say about midlife crisis?

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80% of men experience moderate to sever mid-life crisis and “age 30 crisis” occurs in men when they feel it will be too late to make later changes.

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During Piaget’s formal operation stage, children are able to do what?

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Think abstractly and use deductive reasoning

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32
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What is senile psychosis?

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hallucinations, delusions, and thought disorders brought on by old age.

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According to Piaget, what is conservation?

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Conservation is the idea that a substance’s weight, mass, and volume remain the same even when it changes shape.

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34
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What are fixed-action patterns elicited by sign stimuli?

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Ritualistic behaviors common to all members of a species.

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35
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What does the term epigenetic refer to?

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This is a term borrowed from embryology and refers to each stage developing out of the previous stage.

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36
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What do stage theorists believe?

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Qualitative changes occur between different life stages

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37
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What is sex role socialization?

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Sex role socialization teaches children the traditional things which define differences in the sex roles

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38
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How does culture affect Piaget’s stages of development?

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Culture may change the ages at which the child experiences the stages, but the stages occur in the same order.

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39
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What condition is learned helplessness associated with?

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Depression

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40
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Do stage theorists believe each stage needs to be resolved before moving onto the next?

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Each stage needs to be resolved in order for healthy development to occur.

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41
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When does marriage satisfaction decrease?

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With parenthood

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What drives the second level of Kohlberg’s morality: the conventional level?

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Meet the standards of family, society, and nation.

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What is stage 2 of Kohlberg’s moral development?

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Native Hedonism (Level 1)

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44
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What is the visual cliff?

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A measure of depth perception in children.

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45
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Why was Jean Piaget criticized about the development of his theory?

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Piaget used his children as his subjects.

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According to Mahler, what is symbiosis?

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the child’s absolute dependence on the female caretaker

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If the bond with an adult is severed at an early age, what is this called?

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object loss

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48
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What age group most commonly shows dualistic thinking?

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Teens

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49
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During what stage do children aquire the ability of symbolic schema?

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Preoperational

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50
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In what stage does abstract reasoning take place?

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formal operational stage

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51
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According to Erikson, when is the fear of death greatest?

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Middle age

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52
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According to Bowlby, what age do children need to develop a bond with an adult by?

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Age 3

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53
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What does Piaget think about lectures in schools?

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They aren’t helpful; students learn by experience

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54
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Who is responsible for Object Loss?

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Bowlby

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55
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How do organismic psychologists view development?

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A series of qualitative strides

56
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What is practical inteligence?

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It is a term that sums up piaget’s sensorimotor stage.

57
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What is Freud’s wish fulfillment?

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Dreams and slips of the tongue are actually wish fulfillments.

58
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During what stage do children master the concept of conservation?

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Concrete operations (age 7 to 11)

59
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The Harlow experiments with isolated monkeys during early development showed what?

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The monkeys developed abnormally and appeared autistic

60
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What ages are associated with Piaget’s formal operations stage?

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Ages 12 and older

61
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What did empiricism lead to?

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Behaviorism

62
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How does an organismic view development?

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An individual’s actions are more important than the enviroment

63
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When did secondary school counseling become popular?

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1960s

64
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Why is object loss important?

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A child unable to form attachments by age 3 will have difficulties through adulthood (think hx of broken attachments)

65
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What is the order of Mazlow’s needs from low order to high?

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Survival, security, safety, love, self-esteem, self-actualization.

66
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How was Jean Piaget trained before psychology?

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He was a biologist.

67
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During which of Piaget’s stages do children master reversibility?

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Concrete operations

68
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Object loss progresses through what stages?

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Protest to despair to detachment.

69
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What kind of psychologist is Erickson?

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An ego psychologist

70
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Who spoke of the holding environment in counseling?

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Robert Kegan

71
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At what age to children develop object permanence?

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8 months

72
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How many school counselors are there?

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Over 100,000

73
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What is stage 1 of Kohlberg’s levels of moral development?

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Punishment/Obedience Orientation (Level 1)

74
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Where does Freud say morality is derived from?

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Superego

75
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What is equilibration?

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a balance between what one takes in (assimilation) and what is changed (accommodation)

76
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A preschool child attributes human characteristics to inanimate objects. What is this called?

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Animism

77
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What is stage 5 of Kohlberg’s levels of moral development?

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Democratically accepted law of “social contract”

78
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What did Havinghurst say about middle age adults and generativity?

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Middle age adults should achieve civic responsibility, maintain a home, guide adolescents, develop leizure, adjust to bodily changes, and learn to relate to a spouse (This is dated advice.)

79
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What are “preconscious psychic processes”?

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AKA foreconscious; this material is not known but can be recalled with psychoanalytic processes

80
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What are three reasons for the slow development of elementary school counseling?

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1) People believed teachers could double as counselors;
2) Counseling was seen as focusing on vocational issues
3) Secondary schools used social workers and psychologists when emotional problems were still an issue for older children

81
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What does ethology refer to?

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The study of animal behavior in their natural environment

82
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What are Erik Erikson’s developmental stages called?

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Psychosocial

83
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What do ego psychologists believe?

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Man has the power of reasoning to control their behavior.

84
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Who is the only psychoanalyst who’s theory covers the whole lifespan?

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Erik Erikson

85
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What is stage 6 of Kohlberg’s levels of moral development?

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Principles of self-conscience and universal ethics (level 3)

86
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What is relativistic thinking?

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The thinking that not every thing is right or wrong, but things are actually relative to the situation.

87
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What is negative reinforcement?

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The removal of a stimuli increases the probability that a behavior will occur.

88
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What is stage 4 of Kohlberg’s levels of moral development?

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Authority, law and order (level 2)

89
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What is a “critical period”?

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A period of time during development when imprinting is possible and when behavior must be learned or it won’t be learned.

90
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Kolberg has __ stages of moral development and __ levels.

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6 stages and 3 levels.

91
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When did school counseling become mandatory?

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1980s

92
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What is the risky shift phenomenon?

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a group decision is typically more liberal than the average individual’s decision prior to joining the group. (Joining a group makes people take more of a risk collectively.)

93
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What are schemas?

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The cognitive structures a child developes to deal with new information

94
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Who is associated with proximal development?

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Alfred Adler

95
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How is anxiety different from phobia?

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In anxiety, the client is unaware of the source of their fear.

96
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What is learned helplessness?

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a pattern in which people are exposed to situations in which they are powerless to change and then believe they have no control over their situations.

97
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What term describes fetal development?

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Cephalocaudal

98
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What drives the third level of Kohlberg’s morality: the postconventional level?

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universal, ethical prinicials of justice, dignity, and human rights.

99
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What is positive psychology?

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The study of human strengths such as joy, wisdom, altruism, happiness, wisdom, and the ability to love.

100
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Animism is most related to what stage?

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Piaget’s preoperational stage

101
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What is comparative psychology?

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Research which studies animals but generalizes the results to humans.

102
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What do behavioristic empiricists value?

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statistical studies and the emphasis on the role of the environment

103
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Who were Jean Piaget’s subjects?

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His children: Lucienne, Laurent, and Jaqueline.

104
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When is marriage satisfaction lowest?

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immediately prior to a child leaving home

105
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What does the abbreviation FAP mean?

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Fixed action pattern

106
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What does the concept of reversibility refer to as it relates to Piaget’s stages?

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Reversibility refers to the ability to undo an action so an object can return to its original state. This is developed during the concrete operations stage.

107
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Which theorist was most concerned with maternal deprivation?

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Harry Harlow

108
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What is hysteria?

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The presence of an organic symptom (like blindness, deafness, or paralysis) in the absense of physiological causes

109
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What is the result of “the primal scene”?

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Neuroses in adulthood

110
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What is anaclitic depression associated with?

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difficulty developing close relationships

111
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In what of Piaget’s stages is egocentrism common?

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Preoperational stage

112
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During what stage does a child develop object permanence and constancy of objects?

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Sensorimotor

113
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What is object permanence?

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The ability of an infant to know that hidden objects still exist.

114
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How did Seligman experiment with learned helplessness?

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Dogs in electrified harnessess.

115
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What does symbolic schema help with?

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Language and symbolic play

116
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Who believed humans were naturally aggressive?

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Konrad Lorenz

117
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What is positive reinforcement?

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the addition of a stimulus increases or stregthens a behavior.

118
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What drives the first level of Kohlberg’s morality: the preconventional/premoral level?

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Reward and punishment.

119
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At what age does Freud’s theory of development end?

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Age 12 at the genital stage.

120
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Who was responsible for the notion of schemas?

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Piaget

121
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According to empiricism, how is knowledge gained?

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Experience

122
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How do empiricists view development?

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Merely quantitative changes.

123
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What ages are typically assoiated with the concrete operations stage?

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Ages 7 to 11

124
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What ages are associated with Piaget’s preoperations stage?

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Ages 2 to 7

125
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What is “the primal scene” according to psychoanalytic theory?

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A young child witnessing his parents having sex or being seduced by a parent. This may be real or imagined.

126
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What is centration?

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Centration occurs when the child focuses on one key aspect of an object instead of the whole thing.

127
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When do children develop depth perception?

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This is an inherent trait (they are born with it).

128
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What is nosology?

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A branch of medicine which deals in clasifying diseases.

129
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What does Maslow’s heirarchy of needs postulate?

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Certain needs such as safety and physiological needs are lower order (higher priority) and things like self-actualization are high order (lower priority)

130
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What is BASIC-ID?

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Its an acronym from Arnold Lazarus for multimodal counseling: Behavior, Affective responses, Sensations, Imagery, Cognitions, Interpersonal relationships, & Drugs

131
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What is another word for Maslow’s higher-order needs?

A

metaneeds

132
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What is the order of Jean Piaget’s stages?

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Sensorimotor, preoporations, concrete operations, and formal operations.

133
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In which of Piaget’s stages do children develop the ability for abstract thought?

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Formal operations

134
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What are Freud’s stages of development called?

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Psychosexual

135
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What is anaclitic depression?

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children raised in institutions (especially between 6-8 months old) cry more, have more difficulty sleeping, and have more health problems.

136
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How do maturationist counselors practice?

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By allowing the client to work through earlier conflicts; think of a growing plant.