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Psych week 9,12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Physical Development | involves growth and changes in the body and brain, the senses, motor skills, and health and wellness. |
| Motor Skills | refer to our ability to move our bodies and manipulate objects. |
| Nature vs. Nurture | debate that considers how our personalities and traits are the result of our genetics and biological factors and how they are shaped by our environment. |
| Preoperational Stage | children use words and images to represent things, but they lack logical reasoning. |
| Developmental Milestones | specific normative events. |
| Concrete Operational Stage | children understand events and analogies logically, and they can perform simple mathematical operations. |
| Teratogen | any environmental agent—biological, chemical, or physical—that causes damage. |
| Cognitive Development | Correct match: involves learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity. |
| The Normative Approach | “What is normal development”? |
| Formal Operational Stage | children can use abstract thinking to problem solve, look at alternative solutions, and test these solutions. |
| Psychosexual Development | Oral Anal Phallic Latency Genital |
| Erikson that places emphasis on the social nature of development and that personality development occurs across the lifespan and not just in childhood. | Trust vs. mistrust Autonomy vs. shame/doubt Initiative vs. guilt Industry vs. inferiority Identity vs. confusion Intimacy vs. isolation Generativity vs. stagnation Integrity vs. despair |
| Social psychology is a field that studies both interpersonal and intrapersonal behavior. Which of the following is an example of interpersonal behavior? | group processes |
| The field of social psychology studies topics at the intrapersonal level. These topics include | emotions and attitudes, the self, and social cognition |
| holds that our behavior is determined by internal factors. | Dispositionism |
| Social psychology is a field that studies both interpersonal and intrapersonal behavior. Which of the following is an example of interpersonal behavior? | group processes |
| What is groupthink? | modification of the opinions of members of a group to align with what they believe is the group consensus |
| A(n) ________ is the evaluation of or feelings toward a person, idea, or object that are typically positive or negative. | attitude |
| Who was the social psychology professor at Yale who designed an obedience study in order to test the defense of “I was just following orders” typically used by accused Nazis? | Milgram |
| Which type of social influence involves conformity to a group norm prompted by the belief that the group is competent and has the correct information? | informational |
| Who conducted the Stanford prison experiment? | Zimbardo |
| Which of the following best defines the Asch effect? | influence of the group majority on an individual's judgment |