UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Developmental Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Discipline that studies the physical,
cognitive, social, and emotional development of humans
John Locke - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Believed child came into the world as "tabula rasa"
or clean slate
G. Stanley Hall - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Credited with founding child development as an
academic discipline
Life Span Perspective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Human development through an
individuals lifetime
Theories - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Formulations of apparent relationships among events
John Watson - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Founder of behaviorism
Whose theory is psycho-sexual development? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Freud
Whose theory is psycho-social development? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Erikson
What are Freud's 3 parts of personality? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. ID
2. Ego
3. Super Ego
I.D - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Present at birth, unconscious, represents biological drives
and demands instant gratification
,Ego - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Conscious of self, develops when children learn to obtain
gratification consciously
Super Ego - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Develops throughout infancy and early childhood,
monitor intentions and behavior of ego, judgement of right or wrong, influence behavior with
guilt and shame
What are the 5 stages of psycho-sexual development? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Oral
Stage
2. Anal Stage
3. Phallic Stage
4.Latency Stage
5. Genital Stage
Oral Stage of Psycho-Sexual Development - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1st year of life,
sucking and biting, fixated on oral activities
Anal Stage of Psycho-Sexual Development - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Gratification from
control and elimination of waste products
Phallic Stage of Psycho-Sexual Development - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Possible parent-
child conflict may develop over masturbation
Latency Stage of Psycho-Sexual Development - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Age 5 or 6,
sexual feelings remain unconscious
Genital Stage of Psycho-Sexual Development - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Adolescence
desire intercourse
What does Freud believe? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- People are motivated by drives,
social relationships, and conscious desire to achieve
, What does Erikson's Theory of Psycho-Social Development emphasize? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Ego
Classical Conditioning - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Simple form of learning in which an
originally neutral stimulus comes to bring forth, the response brought forth by a second
stimulus as a result of being paired repeatedly
Operant Conditioning - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Learn to do something because of its
effects
Reinforcement - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Process of providing stimuli following responses
that increase the frequency of responses
Extinction - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Caused by repeated performance of operant behavior
without reinforcement
Who is a social cognitive theorist? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Albert Bandura
What is social cognitive theory? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Learning occurs by observing
other people
Who created the cognitive developmental theory? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Jean Piaget
What concepts does the cognitive development theory use? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1.
Schemes
2. Adaptation
3. Assimilation
4. Accommodation
5. Equilibriliation
Scheme - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Pattern of action or mental structure that is involved in
acquiring knowledge