Multiple Choice

Question 1

According to Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages of Development, the stage in which a child needs to learn important academic skills and compare favorably with peers in school to achieve competence is the ____ stage.

Answer 1

Industry vs. Inferiority

Question 2

A 38-year-old woman quits her high-paying marketing job to focus on her children and become a school counselor. What stage would Erikson consider this to be:

Answer 2

Generativity vs. Stagnation

Question 3

An adolescent may begin to ponder the roles they might play in the adult world, they have mixed ideas, feelings about the specific ways in which they fit into society and may experiment with behaviors and activities. Erikson would consider this stage to be:

Answer 3

Identity vs. Role Confusion

Question 4

How many stages of psychosocial development did Erikson describe?

Answer 4

8

Question 5

Members of a culture or group work to help children develop behaviors/ beliefs that are important to the group. Culture also has a more direct influence on children’s personal and social development. This is called:

Answer 5

Socialization

Question 6

Sustained attention, planning, reasoning, decision making coordination of complex activities, creative thoughts, inhibition of nonproductive thoughts & behaviors. Are located in what part of the brain:

Answer 6

Pre-frontal cortex (behind forehead)

Question 7

Vygotsky defined this as the space between what a learner can do without assistance and what a learner can do with adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers.

Answer 7

Zone of Proximal Development