Psych 110- Ch. 2 – Flashcards

What in the past was often called school phobia is now referred to as

school refusal behavior

Which perspective argues that human development takes many paths and is minimally influenced by physiological factors?

The universality-context-specificity issue is concerned with whether

The statement, "change is different from person to person because cultures differ from person to person," best fits with the _____ approach to development.

According to Freud, the personality component underlying the crying of a hungry newborn is called the

I am the "moral" aspect of the personality that helps a person determine the difference between acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Sigmund Freud called me the

Freud suggested that psychological problems arise when the

Oedipus is to Electra as

Ten-year-old Jordan has few sexual urges and expends most of his energy playing basketball. Jordan appears to be in Freud's _____ stage of development.

Seven-year-old Jasper devotes his energy to play and schoolwork. According to Freud, Jasper is in which stage?

A reasonable criticism of Freudian psychoanalytic theory is that it puts too little emphasis on the

When describing her theory of development, Candice says, "The basic idea is that I take a stimulus that at first has no effect on an individual. Then I pair that stimulus with a second stimulus that does elicit some response. After the two have been paired together a few times, I test to see if the initial stimulus now elicits a response similar to the one elicited by the second stimulus." Given this description, Candice would be best classified as a(n) _____ conditioning theorist.

_____ is best associated with operant conditioning theory.

One of the elements that distinguished social cognitive theory from operant conditioning theory was the social cognitive theory emphasis on

Self-efficacy is best defined as

A theorist with a(n) _____ perspective would be most likely to focus on the interaction between a changing environmental context and a person who is producing changes in the environment.

When exhibiting repression, an individual expresses motives that are just the opposite of their real motives.

According to Piaget, a child who is unable to use symbols to help solve problems mentally is in the preoperational stage of development.

Freud is credited with developing _____ theory.