Quiz 1A Flashcards
True or False? Watching someone do something challenging can inspire you to believe you can do it.
True
True or False? Hanging around with bad company won’t affect an individual’s behavior.
False
True or False? Teenagers should question the moral codes of their parents to gain their own moral codes.
True
True or False? Teenagers should be expected to conform to the Moral Codes of their parents.
False
True or False? Elderly people, accepting that they need walkers to remain mobile, is an example of psychosocial development.
False
True or False? Gamblers, who win small and lose big, but keep playing, is an example of operant conditioning.
True
True or False? When we consider the laws affecting the lives of children we are referring to ecological influences.
True
True or False? When we consider the IQ of a human being, that’s considered to be a nurture influence.
False
True or False? When we consider the cultural impact on a human being, that’s considered a nature influence.
False
In ecological systems theory, what is the name of the connections between the child’s immediate settings.
Mesosystem
What is the participant observation of a culture called?
Ethnography
What graded influence explains why agemates tend to share distinguishing characteristics?
History Graded
What type of science deals with the study of constancy and change throughout a lifespan?
Developmental Science
What is the name of Freud’s theory that emphasizes the management of early sexual and aggressive drives?
Psychosexual
What is the name of the learning theory that emphasizes the role of modeling in the development of behavior?
Social Learning Theory
What’s the name of the developmental psychology that studies the adaptive value of a species’ mental competencies?
Evolutionary Developmental Psychology
In ecological systems theory, what are the temporal changes in children’s environments called?
Chronosystem
What is the name of Piaget’s developmental theory which states that children actively construct knowledge through exploration?
Cognitive Developmental Theory
What is the name of the systems theory that states that children develop within complex relationships, affected by the environment?
Ecological Systems Theory
What type of influences affect one or a few people and do not follow a predictable timetable?
Non-Normative Graded
What is the name of Erikson’s theory that focuses on the resolution of psychological conflicts over the lifespan?
Psychosocial Theory
What emphasizes the study of directly observable events?
Behaviorism
Which approach deals with age related averages that are computed to represent typical development?
Normative Approach
In ecological systems theory, what are the activities and interaction patterns in the child’s immediate surroundings called?
Microsystem
In ecological systems theory, what are the cultural characteristics that influence inner levels of the environment called?
Macrosystem
According to what perspective is development lifelong, multidimensional, plastic and context-dependent?
Lifespan
Which interview method uses a flexible, conversational style?
Clinical
What is the name of the controversy that deals with the debate concerning whether development is influenced more by genes or by the environment?
Nature-Nurture
What is the study of the adaptive value of behavior and its evolutionary history called?
Ethology
What’s the name of Freud’s perspective which states that children develop in stages, negotiating biological drives and social expectations.
Psychoanalytic
Which graded influences are fairly predictable in their timing and duration?
Age Graded
What type of interview is it when the researcher asks all participants the same questions in the same way?
Structured
Which view of development believes that development gradually adds to innate skills?
Continuous
