REGIS COLLEGE PSYCH 643 FINAL PAPER
2026 QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ Piaget Perioperations Subperiod. Answer: Deferred Imitation,
symbolic play, Graphic imagery, mental imagery, and language.
◉ Piaget Concrete Operations. Answer: 7-11 years old
Begin abstract thought
Plays games with rules
Cause and effect relationship
Conservation of quantity, weight, volume, inclusion/seriation
◉ Piaget Formal Operations. Answer: 12-adult; ability to think
abstractly; thinking operates in a formal, logical manner
◉ Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development. Answer: Moral
development takes place in stages and awareness of other people
increases at each stage
Preconventional: Punishment/obedience
Conventional: Act in ways to maintain good relationships with
others.
,Postconventional: Develop ethical principles that are self-accepted.
◉ Erikson's Psychosocial Theory. Answer: stage theory of
psychosocial development, lifespan consists of eight dilemmas that
must be solved correctly in order to solve the next dilemma
◉ Trust vs. Mistrust (Erikson). Answer: 0-1 years. Erikson's first
stage during the first year of life, infants learn to trust when they are
cared for in a consistent warm manner. Can be associated with
psychosis, addiction, and depression when negative.
◉ Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (Erikson). Answer: 1 - 3 years.
Using new mental and motor skills, children want to choose and
decide for themselves. Autonomy is fostered when parents permit
reasonable free choice and do not force or shame the child. Aligns
with Freud's anal stage. Can be associated with paranoia, OCD, and
impulsivity when negative.
◉ Initiative vs. Guilt (Erikson). Answer: 3-6 yrs, good: sense of
purpose, ability to initiate activities, ability to enjoy
accomplishment, bad: fear of punishment, restrict himself, show off.
Can be associated with conversion disorder, phobias, psychosomatic
disorder, and inhibition.
◉ Industry vs. Inferiority (Erikson). Answer: 6-12 yrs, good:
competence, exercise his/her abilities and intelligence in the world,
, be able to affect world in the way that the child desires bad:
inadequacy, low self esteem. Can be associated with creative
inhibition, Intertion.
◉ Identity vs. Role Confusion (Erikson). Answer: 13-19 yr, **most
crucial** teens struggle with identity crisis, if healthy
experimentation is fostered they attain identity achievement; if not,
they face insecurity and low self-worth. Can be associated with
delinquency, BPD, gender confusion.
◉ Intimacy vs. Isolation (Erikson). Answer: 20-40 yrs, good: love,
intimate relationships, commitment. bad: avoidance of commitment,
alienation, distancing oneself. Schizoid.
◉ Generativity vs. Stagnation (Erikson). Answer: 40-60 years.
favorable resolution results in an individual capable of being a
productive, caring, and contributing member of society. If this crisis
is not overcome, one acquires a sense of stagnation and may become
self-indulgent, bored, and self-centered. Midlife crisis, premature
invalidism.
◉ Integrity vs. Despair (Erikson). Answer: 60- death. involves
reevaluating what we have done in our lives. If we feel we have done
well we have a sense of integrity, otherwise we experience gloom
and doubt. Extreme alienation, despair.
2026 QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ Piaget Perioperations Subperiod. Answer: Deferred Imitation,
symbolic play, Graphic imagery, mental imagery, and language.
◉ Piaget Concrete Operations. Answer: 7-11 years old
Begin abstract thought
Plays games with rules
Cause and effect relationship
Conservation of quantity, weight, volume, inclusion/seriation
◉ Piaget Formal Operations. Answer: 12-adult; ability to think
abstractly; thinking operates in a formal, logical manner
◉ Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development. Answer: Moral
development takes place in stages and awareness of other people
increases at each stage
Preconventional: Punishment/obedience
Conventional: Act in ways to maintain good relationships with
others.
,Postconventional: Develop ethical principles that are self-accepted.
◉ Erikson's Psychosocial Theory. Answer: stage theory of
psychosocial development, lifespan consists of eight dilemmas that
must be solved correctly in order to solve the next dilemma
◉ Trust vs. Mistrust (Erikson). Answer: 0-1 years. Erikson's first
stage during the first year of life, infants learn to trust when they are
cared for in a consistent warm manner. Can be associated with
psychosis, addiction, and depression when negative.
◉ Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (Erikson). Answer: 1 - 3 years.
Using new mental and motor skills, children want to choose and
decide for themselves. Autonomy is fostered when parents permit
reasonable free choice and do not force or shame the child. Aligns
with Freud's anal stage. Can be associated with paranoia, OCD, and
impulsivity when negative.
◉ Initiative vs. Guilt (Erikson). Answer: 3-6 yrs, good: sense of
purpose, ability to initiate activities, ability to enjoy
accomplishment, bad: fear of punishment, restrict himself, show off.
Can be associated with conversion disorder, phobias, psychosomatic
disorder, and inhibition.
◉ Industry vs. Inferiority (Erikson). Answer: 6-12 yrs, good:
competence, exercise his/her abilities and intelligence in the world,
, be able to affect world in the way that the child desires bad:
inadequacy, low self esteem. Can be associated with creative
inhibition, Intertion.
◉ Identity vs. Role Confusion (Erikson). Answer: 13-19 yr, **most
crucial** teens struggle with identity crisis, if healthy
experimentation is fostered they attain identity achievement; if not,
they face insecurity and low self-worth. Can be associated with
delinquency, BPD, gender confusion.
◉ Intimacy vs. Isolation (Erikson). Answer: 20-40 yrs, good: love,
intimate relationships, commitment. bad: avoidance of commitment,
alienation, distancing oneself. Schizoid.
◉ Generativity vs. Stagnation (Erikson). Answer: 40-60 years.
favorable resolution results in an individual capable of being a
productive, caring, and contributing member of society. If this crisis
is not overcome, one acquires a sense of stagnation and may become
self-indulgent, bored, and self-centered. Midlife crisis, premature
invalidism.
◉ Integrity vs. Despair (Erikson). Answer: 60- death. involves
reevaluating what we have done in our lives. If we feel we have done
well we have a sense of integrity, otherwise we experience gloom
and doubt. Extreme alienation, despair.
