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What does psychometric refer to?
Mental testing or measurement
What does psych diagnostic pertain to?
The study of personality through interpretation of behavior or nonverbal cues
What do psychodynamic theories focus on?
Focus on the unconscious process rather than cognitive factors when counseling clients
What is the id?
Chaotic and concerned only with the body, not with the outside world
What is the ego?
The ego is logical, rational, and utilizes the power of reasoning and control to keep impulses in check.
What is the super ego?
The super ego is the moralistic and idealistic portion of the personality
The genital stage of Freudian theory happen when?
,Begins at age 12 and it said to continue throughout one's lifespan
How many stages are in Erik Erikson's developmental theory?
8
Jean Piaget is known for what?
Cognitive development in children
How many stages are in John Piagets cognitive development theory?
4
The statement " the ego is dependent on the Id" would most likely reflect the work of?
Sigmund Freud
What is Robert Perry known for?
His ideas related to adult cognitive development; especially regarding college students
Dualistic thinking
Common in teenagers; things are conceptualized as good or bad or right and wrong
Relativistic thinking
As individuals enter adulthood, they now have the ability to perceive that not everything is right or
wrong, but an answer can exist relative to a specific situation
What is the correct order of Jean Piaget's theory?
Sensory motor, preoperations, conconcrete operations, formal operations
Ideographic approaches
,Examine individuals instead of groups
Nomothetic approaches
Studies large numbers of people to create general principles that apply to the population
What criticism has Jean Piaget received on his research?
His findings were based on observing his own children
A tall skinny picture of water is emptied into a small squatty picture. A child indicates that she feels
the small picture has less water. The child has not yet mastered?
Conservation
What does the term conservation mean in relation to Piagets theory?
A substances weight, mass, and volume remain the same, even if it changes shape
When does a child master conservation and the concept of reversibility?
Concrete operations stage
What is symbolic schema in Piaget's theory?
A cognitive structure that grows with life experience. Schema is a system that permits the child to test
out things in the physical world
Who expanded on Piaget's ideas on moral development?
Lawrence Kohlberg
Who believe that stages of development unfold due to educational intervention?
Lev Vygotsky
, What does epigenetic mean?
Each stage emerges from the one before it. Development follows a process.
What does reversibility mean in Jean Piaget's theory?
One can undo an action, hense an object (such as water) can return to its initial shape
During a thunderstorm, a six-year-old child in Piaget's stage of preoperational thought (stage 2) says,
"the rain is following me" this is an example of
Egocentrism
Egocentrism is Piaget's theory
Conveys the fact that the child cannot view the world from the vantage point of someone else
How many levels of morality did Lawrence Kohlberg suggest?
3
What are the levels of Kohlberg's moral development
Preconventional, conventional, and postconventional
Who is the father of psychoanalysis?
Freud
The term identity crisis comes from the work of
Erikson
Positive psychology
The study of human strength, such as joy, wisdom, altruism, the ability to love, happiness, and wisdom