UCSD PSYC 101 Midterm 1 UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Why do we study development? - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Raising children
2. Social policy
3. Child health
4. How does the mind work?
5. Understanding human nature
Controlled-Rearing Study - CORRECT ANSWER - Known as deprivation study, a study method
which controls how subjects are raised or will study a subject that has been raised in a controlled
environment. An example -- Gene: raised in extreme deprivation.
What question can Controlled-Rearing Studies answer? - CORRECT ANSWER - If we're
wondering how something develops or what kind of experiences are necessary to build something into
cognition or into the mind then what this study does is take this ability away.
-Answers whether or not this ability develops in the absence of the experience taken away
Why are case studies relevant, even when they're unethical? - CORRECT ANSWER - Helps us
address and understand ancient questions about nature
Philosophers - CORRECT ANSWER - Greeks - knowledge is experience/adjust child rearing per
child or innate/strict discipline
Aristotle on Development - CORRECT ANSWER - believed that knowledge comes from
experience, nurture.
Plato on Development - CORRECT ANSWER - believed that knowledge was built-in and infants
just need to learn how to vocalize it, native.
, John Locke's Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - believed the mind was a blank slate and is
developed through experience. Placed all of his emphasis on nurture.
What was the start of empirical research/data? - CORRECT ANSWER - Early 1800s and started
because of the need for social reform in the child labor movement by using LONGITUDINAL STUDIES
which kept track of a study throughout it's lifetime, this work begin by Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Evolution by natural selection and drew parallels
between humans prenatal growth and other animals.
Freud's Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - behavior motivated by unconscious, instinctual drives.
-More than conscious mind, and argued that a majority of thoughts aren't conscious.
Universal Developmental Stages - CORRECT ANSWER - -The type of drive changes over
development through universal developmental stages.
-Different stages change at specific period of times
Positive Findings from Freud - CORRECT ANSWER - -Pointed out the mystery of infantile
amnesia.
-Emphasized early experience.
-We have an unconscious mind -- Project Implicit
Negative Findings from Freud - CORRECT ANSWER - -Overemphasis on sexuality
-Little or no evidence, claims are too vague to test.
Watson's Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - -Reaction to Freudian Analysis and wanted testable
theories.
-Coined the behaviorist theory and only wanted to study observable things -- stimuli, responses, etc.
-NO vague mental constructs: studied the mind but not the mind as a whole
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Why do we study development? - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Raising children
2. Social policy
3. Child health
4. How does the mind work?
5. Understanding human nature
Controlled-Rearing Study - CORRECT ANSWER - Known as deprivation study, a study method
which controls how subjects are raised or will study a subject that has been raised in a controlled
environment. An example -- Gene: raised in extreme deprivation.
What question can Controlled-Rearing Studies answer? - CORRECT ANSWER - If we're
wondering how something develops or what kind of experiences are necessary to build something into
cognition or into the mind then what this study does is take this ability away.
-Answers whether or not this ability develops in the absence of the experience taken away
Why are case studies relevant, even when they're unethical? - CORRECT ANSWER - Helps us
address and understand ancient questions about nature
Philosophers - CORRECT ANSWER - Greeks - knowledge is experience/adjust child rearing per
child or innate/strict discipline
Aristotle on Development - CORRECT ANSWER - believed that knowledge comes from
experience, nurture.
Plato on Development - CORRECT ANSWER - believed that knowledge was built-in and infants
just need to learn how to vocalize it, native.
, John Locke's Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - believed the mind was a blank slate and is
developed through experience. Placed all of his emphasis on nurture.
What was the start of empirical research/data? - CORRECT ANSWER - Early 1800s and started
because of the need for social reform in the child labor movement by using LONGITUDINAL STUDIES
which kept track of a study throughout it's lifetime, this work begin by Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Evolution by natural selection and drew parallels
between humans prenatal growth and other animals.
Freud's Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - behavior motivated by unconscious, instinctual drives.
-More than conscious mind, and argued that a majority of thoughts aren't conscious.
Universal Developmental Stages - CORRECT ANSWER - -The type of drive changes over
development through universal developmental stages.
-Different stages change at specific period of times
Positive Findings from Freud - CORRECT ANSWER - -Pointed out the mystery of infantile
amnesia.
-Emphasized early experience.
-We have an unconscious mind -- Project Implicit
Negative Findings from Freud - CORRECT ANSWER - -Overemphasis on sexuality
-Little or no evidence, claims are too vague to test.
Watson's Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - -Reaction to Freudian Analysis and wanted testable
theories.
-Coined the behaviorist theory and only wanted to study observable things -- stimuli, responses, etc.
-NO vague mental constructs: studied the mind but not the mind as a whole
