Psychology 100 Exam 3 UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers | 2026
• Rooting Reflex -✓✓ a baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek, to turn
toward the touch, open the mouth, and search for the nipple
• Sucking Reflex -✓✓ An infant reflex in which the infant starts sucking when
their lips are stroked.
• Maturation -✓✓ 3 stages of motor development: learning, control, and behavior;
developmental changes = predetermined
• Adolescence (Puberty) -✓✓ Period of sexual maturation and development of
primary and secondary sexual characteristics; sequence of events is more
predictable than timing (puberty happens at different times for everyone); further
development of the frontal lobes
• Young Adulthood -✓✓ Minimal physical changes but signs of aging are
beginning; physical decline accelerates gradually
• Middle Adulthood -✓✓ Gradual decline in fertility starts; sensory abilities also
start declining; immune system weakens; brain regions dealing with memory start
to atrophy
• Cognition -✓✓ mental activities related to thinking, knowing, remembering, and
communicating
,• Jean Piaget -✓✓ children are NOT small adults missing information; children
process information differently than adults
• Schemas -✓✓ concepts or frameworks that organize and interpret information
• Assimilation -✓✓ new information is incorporated into existing schema (ex.
discussing a topic with someone that agrees with you on that issue)
• Accomodation -✓✓ new experiences cause existing schema to change (ex.
discussing a topic with someone that disagrees with you on that issue and makes
you change your mind on it).
• Spurts of cognitive change are... -✓✓ followed by periods of stability (when you
change your mind on a topic or learn new information, you don't actively pursue to
change your mind again, you're content with what you've discovered).
• 4 Stages of Cognitive Development -✓✓ Piaget
1. Sensorimotor Stage
2. Preoperational Stage
3. Concrete Operational Stage
4. Formal Operational Stage
• Sensorimotor Stage (Piaget) -✓✓ birth to age 2
-understanding the world through sensory experiences and physical interactions
with objects (think how babies like to touch everything)
-form object permanence at 8 months (object still exists when they can't see it;
think peek-a-boo)
, • Preoperational Stage (Piaget) -✓✓ age 2 to age 6 or 7
-use of symbolic thinking in the form of words and images to represent objects and
experiences
-pretend and make-believe play (symbolic thinking)
-egocentrism; theory of mind begins to develop
-use intuitive thinking instead of logical (think how they believe in Santa without
question)
-no grasp of conservation (kids think that the person with the cut up hot dog has
more than the person with whole hot dog)
-Irreversibility (difficult reversing an action mentally)
• Egocentrism -✓✓ in Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty seeing
another's point of view
• Theory of Mind -✓✓ ability to infer other's mental states
• Concrete Operational Stage (Piaget) -✓✓ age 6/7 to age 11/12
-begin to grasp conservation and serial order
-able to form mental representations of a series of actions
-logical thinking begins but reasoning is purely concrete (where does Santa get his
money?)
• Formal Operational Stage (Piaget) -✓✓ age 12 and beyond
-only half of the population reaches this stage
-abstract thinking
Questions and CORRECT Answers | 2026
• Rooting Reflex -✓✓ a baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek, to turn
toward the touch, open the mouth, and search for the nipple
• Sucking Reflex -✓✓ An infant reflex in which the infant starts sucking when
their lips are stroked.
• Maturation -✓✓ 3 stages of motor development: learning, control, and behavior;
developmental changes = predetermined
• Adolescence (Puberty) -✓✓ Period of sexual maturation and development of
primary and secondary sexual characteristics; sequence of events is more
predictable than timing (puberty happens at different times for everyone); further
development of the frontal lobes
• Young Adulthood -✓✓ Minimal physical changes but signs of aging are
beginning; physical decline accelerates gradually
• Middle Adulthood -✓✓ Gradual decline in fertility starts; sensory abilities also
start declining; immune system weakens; brain regions dealing with memory start
to atrophy
• Cognition -✓✓ mental activities related to thinking, knowing, remembering, and
communicating
,• Jean Piaget -✓✓ children are NOT small adults missing information; children
process information differently than adults
• Schemas -✓✓ concepts or frameworks that organize and interpret information
• Assimilation -✓✓ new information is incorporated into existing schema (ex.
discussing a topic with someone that agrees with you on that issue)
• Accomodation -✓✓ new experiences cause existing schema to change (ex.
discussing a topic with someone that disagrees with you on that issue and makes
you change your mind on it).
• Spurts of cognitive change are... -✓✓ followed by periods of stability (when you
change your mind on a topic or learn new information, you don't actively pursue to
change your mind again, you're content with what you've discovered).
• 4 Stages of Cognitive Development -✓✓ Piaget
1. Sensorimotor Stage
2. Preoperational Stage
3. Concrete Operational Stage
4. Formal Operational Stage
• Sensorimotor Stage (Piaget) -✓✓ birth to age 2
-understanding the world through sensory experiences and physical interactions
with objects (think how babies like to touch everything)
-form object permanence at 8 months (object still exists when they can't see it;
think peek-a-boo)
, • Preoperational Stage (Piaget) -✓✓ age 2 to age 6 or 7
-use of symbolic thinking in the form of words and images to represent objects and
experiences
-pretend and make-believe play (symbolic thinking)
-egocentrism; theory of mind begins to develop
-use intuitive thinking instead of logical (think how they believe in Santa without
question)
-no grasp of conservation (kids think that the person with the cut up hot dog has
more than the person with whole hot dog)
-Irreversibility (difficult reversing an action mentally)
• Egocentrism -✓✓ in Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty seeing
another's point of view
• Theory of Mind -✓✓ ability to infer other's mental states
• Concrete Operational Stage (Piaget) -✓✓ age 6/7 to age 11/12
-begin to grasp conservation and serial order
-able to form mental representations of a series of actions
-logical thinking begins but reasoning is purely concrete (where does Santa get his
money?)
• Formal Operational Stage (Piaget) -✓✓ age 12 and beyond
-only half of the population reaches this stage
-abstract thinking
