Psych Final - Development Psychology

Question 1

Attachment style

Answer 1

there are various styles to which one demonstrates an emotional tie with another person

Question 2

Avoidant

Answer 2

no expression of emotional reaction to crisis, avoids emotion

Question 3

Insecure-Avoidant

Answer 3

acknowledging emotion within self, not expressing it

Question 4

Secure

Answer 4

comfortable with and expresses emotion in a rational way

Question 5

Piaget’s Theory

Answer 5

different stages of learning, developed based on age

Question 6

Sensorimotor

Answer 6

Piaget stage (0-2 yr) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities

Question 7

Preoperational

Answer 7

Piaget stage (2-7 yr) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic

Question 8

Concrete operational

Answer 8

Piaget stage (7-11 yr) during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events

Question 9

Formal operational

Answer 9

Piaget stage (12+ yr) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts

Question 10

Kholberg’s theory of morality

Answer 10

pre-conventional, conventional, post-conventional stages of morality

Question 11

Erik Erikson’s theory of development

Answer 11

positive and negative ways of resolving crisis for each way of life, if trapped in negative, must go back to beginning and experience positive stages (each stage builds on previous)

Question 12

Conformity

Answer 12

adjusting one’s behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard