People

Question 1

Piaget

Answer 1

cog development of children
assimilation vs accomodation
schema

Question 2

Urie Bronfenbrenner

Answer 2

Ecological systems theory (development is impacted by environment)
Microsystem, mezzo, macro, exo, chrosystem

Question 3

Psychoanalytic theories

Answer 3

Freud, Erikson (psychosocial), Jung (Stages of life)

Question 4

Cognitive development theories

Answer 4

Piaget (children), Kohlberg (moral development), Bowlby (role of caregivers in child development)

Question 5

Social Learning theories

Answer 5

Pavlov (classical conditioning), B.F. Skinner (operant conditioning), Bandura (doll experiment, behavior is learned by watching and imitating others)

Question 6

Systems theories

Answer 6

Darwin (natural selection), Gottlieb (bio and environmental factors impact development, genetic origins of behavior, some families may be predisposed to issues more than others), Brofenbrenner)

Question 7

Humanistic theory

Answer 7

Maslow, Rogers, Rollo May (concerning people’s perception of death)

Question 8

Vygotsky

Answer 8

focused on influence of person’s environmental culture/language (social interactions
Zone of proximal development- what the learner can do without help vs with support

Question 9

Raymond Catell

Answer 9

two types of intelligence:
1) fluid- mental abilities used creatively to solve problems and tackle new situations, i.e. working on new project, declines in young adulthood
2) Crystallized- applying already learned knowledge, skills and experience; filling out definitions from memorized terms; declines in old age

Question 10

David Rosenhan

Answer 10

suspected that psychiatric hospitals often gave patients the wrong diagnoses. To prove it, he decided to send in pseudopatients, or healthy people pretending to be mentally ill,

Question 11

Roger Gould

Answer 11

develop takes place with replacement of childhood response with ones that are more mature

Question 12

Adult Development theories

Answer 12

Roger Gould, Daniel Levinson, William Perry, Carl Jung

Question 13

Parkes and Bowlby

Answer 13

attachment model of bereavement
four main reactions to death include numbness, yearning (last 5-14 days after death), disorganization and despair, reorganization

Question 14

Jones and Peters 1992 study found that..

Answer 14

is a 24/7 job with psychological impacts

Question 15

Mary Richmond

Answer 15

Mother of case work
pushed for macro SW and social workers looking at environment

Question 16

Irving Janis

Answer 16

close-knit groups maintain solidarity by ignoring dissent

Question 17

Robert Zajonc

Answer 17

drive theory- if a task is easy, you may work harder in the presence of others, social loafing will happen if the task is difficult

Question 18

John William Atkinson

Answer 18

Expectancy Value Theory- expected outcome of a task and the subjective value of the task influences an individual’s motivation to pursue achievement of those tasks.

Question 19

Eccles and Wigfield

Answer 19

expectancy value theory of motivation- assumes that people are primarily goal-oriented, explaining why people choose certain behaviors over others.

Question 20

Covington and Roberts

Answer 20

motivation is tied to the need for success and the need to avoid failure; overachievers are driven by fear of failure

Question 21

Charles Loring Brace

Answer 21

started the free foster home movement in 1853 with the New York Children’s Aid Society

Question 22

Bernard Murstein

Answer 22

developed stimulus value role theory; mutual selection happens between two individuals in distinct stages.

Question 23

Alice Eagley

Answer 23

social role theory of gender differences- due to physical differences

Question 24

muzafer Sherif

Answer 24

Robbers cave experiment- 22 adolescent males of similar socio-economic and religious backgrounds, ages, etc were divided into two groups. each group fostered bonding and became hostile with the alternating group; or when resources are limited they might have to work together (superordinate goals)