Pop Kuiz 4 Nov 2011

POP KUIZ PA10103 Intoduction To Child Psychology 1. Freud based his model of child development on a) his own and his patients' recollections of childhood experiences.m b) laboratory studies of children. c) large scale questionnaire studies. d) Darwin's theory of evolution. 2. The fact that Freuds theory of psychosexual development is a stage theory implies that a) he discounted biological factors. b) he emphasized quantitative changes. c) he believed that development is discontinuous. d) he emphasized social experience and learning. 3. The stages in Freud's model of child development emerge in which order? a) oral, latency, anal, phallic, genital b) oral, anal, genital, phallic, latency c) oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital d) oral, anal, genital, latency, phallic 4. Freud believed that a) parents could never indulge their children too much. b) early experiences could have important effects on behavior in later life. c) development is entirely determined by inborn biological processes. d) healthy sexual development requires strict parental discipline. 5. Which of the following is NOT consistent with Eriksons model of human development? a) has eight stages b) covers the entire lifespan c) sees development as a quest for identity d) deemphasizes the role of social and cultural influences 6. In Pavlovs experiments with the salivation response in dogs, a) The dog is the unconditioned stimulus. b) Salivation is the conditioned stimulus. c) Barking is the conditioned response. d) The sound of the chime becomes the conditioned stimulus. 7. Which theorist is most associated with operant conditioning? a) Watson b) Pavlov c) Skinner d) Clark

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8. A child who throws a temper tantrum in the supermarket because this usually results in getting candy from her parents has been a) positively reinforced b) negatively reinforced c) classically conditioned d) positively punished 9. Which theorist, associated with the social-learning approach, focused on observational learning? a) John B. Watson b) B. F. Skinner c) Lev Vygotsky d) Albert Bandura 10. Social learning theorists are most likely to explain aggressive behavior in terms of a) aggressive models available in the environment. b) the adaptive function of aggression over the course of evolution. c) a genetic predisposition. d) stimulus generalization. 11. According to Bandura, a model will influence a child's behavior a) only when the model receives a reward for engaging in the behavior. b) when the model possesses characteristics that the child finds attractive. c) only when the child is immediately rewarded for performing the modeled behavior. d) only when the model is of higher status than the child. 12. How many periods or stages are described in Piagets theory of development? a) one b) four c) five d) eight 13. Piagets stages, in order of increasing maturity, are a) sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations, and formal operations. b) oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital. c) physiological, safety, friendship, esteem, self actualization d) trust, autonomy, initiative, industry, identity 14. During the preoperational period the child begins to a) use reflexes to interact upon the world. b) use symbols to represent the world cognitively. c) use operations such as reversibility. d) use abstract reasoning. 15. A child who is able to reason abstractly about alternative political systems is most likely to be in which of Piaget's periods of development? a) period of formal operations b) preoperational period c) foundational stage d) societal stage