Psyc 2314 Chapter 2 Quiz – Flashcards
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            Which of the following is a key criticism of eriksons theory of personality development ?
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        His theory is rather vague and difficult to test
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            Freud believed that human infants were born with
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        Only an id
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            Opedipus is to Electra as
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        Boy is to girl
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            Rather than a sense of inferiority, eight year old zeke has developed a sense of mastery in all his academic endeavors. Erikson would say that zeke has a strong sense of
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        Industry
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            Erikson emphasized the importance of a caregivers _____ in predicting the impact of early life experience on later development
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        General responsiveness
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            In watsons and raynors classical conditioning study with Albert, a steel bar banged with a hammer served as the
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        Unconditioned stimulus
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            School refusal behavior
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        Can lead to academic difficulty and dropping out of school
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            Reciprocal determinism refers to a continuous back and forth interaction between
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        A person, his or her behavior, and the environment
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            How did Bandura demonstrate the existence of "observational learning" in the famous "bobo" doll study ?
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        He showed that children would model an adult they saw in a film
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            _____ is best associated with operant conditioning theory
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        Skinner
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            According to Frued, the ____ stage is the first psychosexual stage of development
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        Oral
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            Which perspective argues that the human development takes many paths and is minimally influenced by physiological factors?
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        Nurture perspective only
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            The university-context-specificity issue is concerned with whether
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        We all follow the same or different development paths
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            How could an elementary teacher effectively use negative punishment in the classroom ?
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        Take away recess time (something that kids want) to decrease misbehavior
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            Jean Jacques Rousseau believed that children are
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        Innately good
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            A reasonable criticism of Freudian psychoanalytic theory is that it puts too little emphasis on the
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        collection of hard data to support his findings
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            Reinforcement
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        Strengthens the likelihood that a behavioral response will occur in the future
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            According to Freud, in a mentally healthy individual, the
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        ego restrains the id.
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            For Piaget, conservation is the ability to recognize that
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        certain properties of an object do not change, even when its appearance is altered in a superficial way.
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            What is vicarious reinforcement?
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        When a person's behavior changes based on consequences that happen to an observed model
