VCE Psychology revision

Question 1

Insecure avoidant attachment

Answer 1

Insecure avoidant attachment is not affected by mother’s presence or absence

Question 2

secure attachment

Answer 2

Secure attachment: distressed when mother leaves the room but happy and comforted by her return

Question 3

accomodation

Answer 3

Accommodation involves changing a pre-existing mental idea in order to fit new information. This is a more advanced process than assimilation.

Question 4

assimilation

Answer 4

Assimilation: the process of taking in new information and fitting it into and making it part of a pre-existing mental idea about objects or experiences

Question 5

critical period

Answer 5

critical periods are when organisms is most vulnerable to the absence of a certain stimulus or experience

Question 6

sensitive period

Answer 6

sensitive periods are when organism is most vulnerable to the absence of a certain stimuli

Question 7

animism

Answer 7

Animism is the belief that everything which exists has some kind of consciousness.

Question 8

insecure resistant attachment

Answer 8

Insecure resistant attachment: very distressed when mother leaves the room and is not comforted by her when she returns

Question 9

sensirmori stage

Question 10

preoperational stage

Question 11

concrete operational stage

Question 12

formal operational stage