Test 3 Flashcards
What is cognition?
Acquiring, storing, retrieving, and using info.
What does it mean to use imagery?
mental representation of a sensory experience
Mental categories used to represent a class or group of objects, people, events, etc.
Concepts
Plans of action to be used in similar circumstances, concepts, understandings, etc.
Schemes
“Rule of thumb”; derived from experience
Heuristics
What is decision-making?
Considering alternatives and choosing among them
What is language?
What is the importance/impact of learning a second language?
What is intelligence?
What are the different theories of intelligence?
Louis Thurstone:
Howard Gardner:
Robert Sternberg:
What are the elements of intelligence testing?
What is the nature/nurture debate involving intelligence?
What developmental process were discussed?
What is the difference between continuous and stage theories?
What is Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development all about?
What are schemas?
What is assimilation and accommodation?
What are the contributions of Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Approach?
Kohlberg’s Stag Theory of Moral Development
What did Erik Erikson discuss in his stage Theory of Psychosocial Development?
What is developmental psychology?
What is temperament and what types of temperament have been identified?
What is attachment?
What are the types of attachment?
How do children acquire language?
What are the different parenting styles and child outcomes discussed?
What changes occur during early, middle and late adulthood?
What changes in intelligence occur in middle adulthood?
What are the social concerns with aging?
What is Elizabeth Kubler-Ross known for?
What is personality?
What is Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis and Theory of Personality all about?
What are the levels of consciousness and structures of personality discussed by Freud?
What are defense mechanisms?
What are the different stages of Freud’s Psychosexual Stages of Development?
What is a fixation?
How does this occur?
What did Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, and Karen Horney contribute to personality development?
What is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs all about?
Why is the Humanistic perspective important in personality development?
What are the views of Carl Rogers and Alfred Adler and personality?
What are traits?
What were the different trait theories discussed?
What is OCEAN?
What is the nature/nurture debate?
How did Rotter characterize Locus of control?
How do clinicians assess one’s personality?
What is a personality inventory?
What are projective tests?
