PHSC 210 QUIZ 5 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026
◉ continuity versus discontinuity. Answer: The question of whether
development is a gradual, cumulative change from conception to
death (continuity), or a sequence of distinct stages (discontinuity)
◉ Sigmund Freud. Answer: stage theorist, psychoanalytic theory had
5 stages (oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital)
conflict at each stage and if conflict was not resolved, then they
would fixate and not move to next stage
◉ Erik Erikson. Answer: stage theorist, psychosocial theory, stages
span from young age to death
◉ Bandura. Answer: Observational learning; Bobo dolls; social-
cognitive theory
◉ Bromfenbrenner. Answer: includes the microsystem, mesosystem,
exosystem, macrosystem, and the chronosystem
◉ Vygotsky's Sociocultural Cognitive Theory. Answer: emphasizes
how culture and social interaction guide cognitive development
, ◉ eclectic approach. Answer: an approach to psychotherapy that,
depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various
forms of therapy,
states that one theory is not better than all the rest
◉ life-span perspective. Answer: an approach to the study of human
development that takes into account all phases of life, not just
childhood or adulthood
◉ Autosomes. Answer: Any chromosome that is not a sex
chromosome (22 pairs account for physical makeup)
◉ Gametes. Answer: sex chromosomes that determine your sex
◉ Developmental issues. Answer: nature and nurture, stability and
change, continuity and discontinuity
◉ types of research. Answer: descriptive, correlational, and
experimental
◉ genotype. Answer: genetic makeup of an organism
◉ Phenotype. Answer: physical characteristics of an organism
PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026
◉ continuity versus discontinuity. Answer: The question of whether
development is a gradual, cumulative change from conception to
death (continuity), or a sequence of distinct stages (discontinuity)
◉ Sigmund Freud. Answer: stage theorist, psychoanalytic theory had
5 stages (oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital)
conflict at each stage and if conflict was not resolved, then they
would fixate and not move to next stage
◉ Erik Erikson. Answer: stage theorist, psychosocial theory, stages
span from young age to death
◉ Bandura. Answer: Observational learning; Bobo dolls; social-
cognitive theory
◉ Bromfenbrenner. Answer: includes the microsystem, mesosystem,
exosystem, macrosystem, and the chronosystem
◉ Vygotsky's Sociocultural Cognitive Theory. Answer: emphasizes
how culture and social interaction guide cognitive development
, ◉ eclectic approach. Answer: an approach to psychotherapy that,
depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various
forms of therapy,
states that one theory is not better than all the rest
◉ life-span perspective. Answer: an approach to the study of human
development that takes into account all phases of life, not just
childhood or adulthood
◉ Autosomes. Answer: Any chromosome that is not a sex
chromosome (22 pairs account for physical makeup)
◉ Gametes. Answer: sex chromosomes that determine your sex
◉ Developmental issues. Answer: nature and nurture, stability and
change, continuity and discontinuity
◉ types of research. Answer: descriptive, correlational, and
experimental
◉ genotype. Answer: genetic makeup of an organism
◉ Phenotype. Answer: physical characteristics of an organism
