nature vs

Question 1

biological/genetic
predispositions that impact one’s human traits —
physical, emotional, and intellectual.

Answer 1

nature

Question 2

nfluence of
learning and other “environmental” factors on these traits.

Answer 2

nurture

Question 3

how genetics
influence an individual’s
personality

Answer 3

nature

Question 4

how their
environment (including
relationships and experiences) impacts their development

Answer 4

nurture

Question 5

focus on genetic, hormonal, and neurochemical explanations of behavior

Answer 5

biological approach

Question 6

innate drives

Answer 6

psychoanalysis

Question 7

innate mental structures such as schemas, perception

Answer 7

cognitive psychology

Question 8

maslow emphasized basic physical needs

Answer 8

humanism

Question 9

all behavior is learned from the environment through conditioning

Answer 9

behaviorism

Question 10

studies the basic mechanics of learning.are concerned with how
behavior changes in response to experience.

Answer 10

behaviorist approach

Question 11

measures quantitative differences in abilities that make up intelligence by using tests that indicate or predict these abilities

Answer 11

psychometric approach

Question 12

looks at changes, or stages, in the quality of cognitive functioning. It is concerned
with how the mind structures its activities and adapts to the environment.

Answer 12

piagetian approach

Question 13

focuses on perception, learning, memory,
and problem solving. It aims to discover how
children process information from
the time they encounter it until they use it

Answer 13

information processing approach

Question 14

seeks to
identify what brain structures are
involved in specific aspects of cognition.

Answer 14

cognitive neuroscience approach

Question 15

examines the
effects of environmental aspects of
the learning process, particularly the role of parents and other caregivers.

Answer 15

socio-contextual approach

Question 16

interested in the mechanism of learning

Answer 16

learning theorists

Question 17

considered facial imitation a cognitive milestone first passed at 1 year

Answer 17

classical theories

Question 18

argued that infants learned to
associate self and other through mirror play and tactile exploration of their own and
others’ faces.

Answer 18

piaget

Question 19

phase in which
children copy or imitate the behaviors of others as a way of learning.

Answer 19

preparatory stage/ imitation stage

Question 20

suggests that we
learn social behavior by
observing and imitating the
behavior of others.

Answer 20

albert bandura’s social learning theory

Question 21

when a child uses objects to stand in for other object

Answer 21

symbolic play

Question 22

age when children are more
likely to begin to voice their observations and imaginations

Answer 22

symbolic play after 2 years

Question 23

key concept for human thought and action. The world around us appears as a coherent flow of events, each event caused by others, which in turn have causes, and so on.

Answer 23

causality