FMST 210 UBC FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
2026
Psychoanalytic theories - ANS behaviour is internally motivated and influenced by
unconscious inner thoughts and conflicts
(Behaviourist) Operant Conditioning - ANS behaviour becomes more or less probable
depending on its consequences - rewards and punishments
(Behaviourist) Social Learning Theory - ANS observe behaviour through other's rewards and
punishments - observational learning and reciprocal determinism (bobo doll experiment)
observational learning - ANS people learn through observing and imitating models
reciprocal determinism - ANS individuals and environment interact and influence each other
(parents behaviour influences children who influence parents)
cognitive theories - ANS motivated by how we think about and understand things in the
world - development/behaviour are the result of thought/cognition
major cognitive theories/theorists - ANS Piaget and Information Processing Theory
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,Piaget's cognitive Developmental Theory - ANS children and adults are active explorers of
their world and organize what they learn in a certain way in their head
Information Processing Theory - ANS we behave the way we do because we've learned
certain things and processed them in a certain way (thinking is information processing)
sociocultural systems theory - ANS behaviour is motivated by multiple environments in which
we exist both direct (people) and indirect (political) - people inseparable from multiple contexts
where they exist
major sociocultural systems theories - ANS Vygotsky's sociocultural systems theory and
Bronfenbrenner's bioecological systems theory
Vygotsky's Sociocultural Systems theory - ANS examines how culture is transmitted from one
generation to the next through social interaction (formal and informal contacts teach children
culture)
Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory - ANS addresses both the role of the individual and
that individual's social interactions (individual as active participant in developing in contexts)
parts of genetic inheritance - ANS genes, chromosomes, and what we inherit from our
parents
how do genes come? - ANS in pairs
dominant genes - ANS always expressed regardless of gene pairing
recessive genes - ANS expressed dependent on other gene pairing
examples of dominant/recessive genes - ANS hair colour, eye colour,
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, trends in maternal age - ANS women getting pregnant later (30-40)
age and risks of high risk pregnancy - ANS 35, down syndrome, stillborn
how many calories pregnant women need - ANS 2/3000 per day
B vitamin crucial in pregnancy - ANS Folic acid linked with spinobifida
role of stress in pregnancy - ANS poses risk to fetus of low birth weight, premature, longer
hospital stay, raised heart rate and activity
long term effects of stress in pregnancy - ANS ADHD, anxiety, aggression
what prenatal care does - ANS improves outcomes through basic services
what prenatal care is - ANS nutrition, doctor visits,
ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in access to prenatal care - ANS lack of health
insurance, transportation, job flexibility,
mothers unsure about pregnancy and with prior negative experiences - ANS dont access
prenatal care
contextual influences on pubertal timing - ANS nutrition, stress, SES, difference in ration of
fat to body size (girls) and muscle to body size (boys)
effects of stress on puberty - ANS early onset (sexual abuse, poor familial relationships, high
anxiety)
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
2026
Psychoanalytic theories - ANS behaviour is internally motivated and influenced by
unconscious inner thoughts and conflicts
(Behaviourist) Operant Conditioning - ANS behaviour becomes more or less probable
depending on its consequences - rewards and punishments
(Behaviourist) Social Learning Theory - ANS observe behaviour through other's rewards and
punishments - observational learning and reciprocal determinism (bobo doll experiment)
observational learning - ANS people learn through observing and imitating models
reciprocal determinism - ANS individuals and environment interact and influence each other
(parents behaviour influences children who influence parents)
cognitive theories - ANS motivated by how we think about and understand things in the
world - development/behaviour are the result of thought/cognition
major cognitive theories/theorists - ANS Piaget and Information Processing Theory
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1
,Piaget's cognitive Developmental Theory - ANS children and adults are active explorers of
their world and organize what they learn in a certain way in their head
Information Processing Theory - ANS we behave the way we do because we've learned
certain things and processed them in a certain way (thinking is information processing)
sociocultural systems theory - ANS behaviour is motivated by multiple environments in which
we exist both direct (people) and indirect (political) - people inseparable from multiple contexts
where they exist
major sociocultural systems theories - ANS Vygotsky's sociocultural systems theory and
Bronfenbrenner's bioecological systems theory
Vygotsky's Sociocultural Systems theory - ANS examines how culture is transmitted from one
generation to the next through social interaction (formal and informal contacts teach children
culture)
Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory - ANS addresses both the role of the individual and
that individual's social interactions (individual as active participant in developing in contexts)
parts of genetic inheritance - ANS genes, chromosomes, and what we inherit from our
parents
how do genes come? - ANS in pairs
dominant genes - ANS always expressed regardless of gene pairing
recessive genes - ANS expressed dependent on other gene pairing
examples of dominant/recessive genes - ANS hair colour, eye colour,
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, trends in maternal age - ANS women getting pregnant later (30-40)
age and risks of high risk pregnancy - ANS 35, down syndrome, stillborn
how many calories pregnant women need - ANS 2/3000 per day
B vitamin crucial in pregnancy - ANS Folic acid linked with spinobifida
role of stress in pregnancy - ANS poses risk to fetus of low birth weight, premature, longer
hospital stay, raised heart rate and activity
long term effects of stress in pregnancy - ANS ADHD, anxiety, aggression
what prenatal care does - ANS improves outcomes through basic services
what prenatal care is - ANS nutrition, doctor visits,
ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in access to prenatal care - ANS lack of health
insurance, transportation, job flexibility,
mothers unsure about pregnancy and with prior negative experiences - ANS dont access
prenatal care
contextual influences on pubertal timing - ANS nutrition, stress, SES, difference in ration of
fat to body size (girls) and muscle to body size (boys)
effects of stress on puberty - ANS early onset (sexual abuse, poor familial relationships, high
anxiety)
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