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1. Freud's stages are psychosexual while Erik Erikson's stages are.....
a. Psychometric
b. Psychodiagnostic
c. psychopharmacological
d. psychosocial - Correct Answer: D. Psychosocial
2. In freud's psychodynamic theory, instincts are emphasized. Erik Erikson is an
ego psychologist. Ego psychologist......
a. Emphasize id processes
b. Refute the concept of the superego
c. Believe in man's powers of reasoning to control behavior
d. are sometimes known as radical behaviorists - Correct Answer: C.
believe in man's powers of reasoning to control behavior
3. The only psychoanalyst who created a developmental theory, which
encompasses the entire life span was....
a. Erik Erikson
, b. Milton H. Erickson
c. A. A. Brill
d. Jean Piaget, who created the four stage theory - Correct Answer:
A. Erik Erikson
4. The statement "the ego is dependent on the id" would most likely reflect
the work of....
a. Erik Erikson
b. Sigmund Freud, who created psychodynamic theory
c. Jay Haley
d. Arnold Lazarus, William Perry, and Robert Kegan - Correct
Answer: B. Sigmund Freud, who created psychodynamic theory
5. Jean Piaget's ideographic approach created his theory with four stages. The
correct order from stage 1 to stage 4 is...
a. Formal operations, concrete operations, perpetrations, sensorimotor
b. Formal operations, preopreperations, concrete operations,
sensorimotor
c. Sensorimotor, preoperations, concrete operations, formal operations
d. Concrete operations, sensorimotor, preoperations, formal operations
- Correct Answer: C. Sensorimotor, preopreperation, concrete
operations, formal operations
6. Some behavior scientists have been critical of Swiss child psychologist Jean
Piaget's developmental research in as much as...
, a. He utilized the t test too frequently
b. He failed to check for type I or alpha errors
c. He worked primarily with minority children
d. His findings were often derived from observing his own children -
Correct Answer: d. His findings were often derived from observing his
own children
7. A tall, skinny pitcher of water is emptied into a small squatty pitcher. A child
indicates that she feels the small pitcher has less water. The child has not
yet mastered...
a. Symbolic schema
b. Conservation
c. Androgynous psychosocial issues
d. Trust versus mistrust - Correct Answer: b. Conservation
8. In Piagetian literature, conservation would most likely refer to...
a. Volume or mass
b. Defenses of the ego
c. The sensorimotor intelligence stage
d. A specific psychosexual stage of life - Correct Answer: a. Volume
or mass
9. A child masters conservation in the Pigetian stage known as...
a. Formal operations - 12 years and older
, b. Concrete operations - ages 7-11 years
c. Preoperations - ages 2-7 years
d. Sensorimotor intelligence - birth to 2 years - Correct Answer: b.
Concrete operations - ages 7-11 years
10.___________ expanded on Piaget's conceptualization of moral
development
a. Erik Erikson
b. Lev Vygotsky
c. Lawrence Kohlberg
d. John B. Watson - Correct Answer: c. Lawrence Kohlberg
11.According to Jean Piaget, a child masters the concept reversibility in the
third stage, known as concrete operations or concrete operational thought.
This notion suggests...
a. That heavier objects are more difficult for a child to lift
b. The child is ambidextrous
c. The child is more cognizant of mass than weight
d. One can undo an action, hence an object (say a glass of water) can
return to its initial shape - Correct Answer: d. One can undo an
action, hence an object (say a glass of water) can return to its initial
shape
12.During a thunderstorm, a 6-year-old child indicates Piaget's stage of
preoperational thought (stage 2) says, "the rain is following me." This is an
example of...