PSY 210 Final Exam Prep
Developmental Psychology, also known as Human Developme
nt or Lifespan Development is the scientific study of ways in:
People change
from conception to death
people stay the same
all of the above
Answer:all of the above
What age period is more crucial, characterizes, or dominates h
uman development?
Answer:No single age period is more crucial
Which Development in the Lifespan Perspective is characterize
d by the brain's ability to learn from experience and how it can r
ecover from injury?
Answer:Plasticity Development
The belief that our own culture is superior is called
,Answer:ethnocentrism
Lifespan refers to ________ and life expectancy refers to ____
____
Answer:length of years to live; prediction of number of years to l
ive
What is the _______ age that includes our cognitive capacity al
ong with our emotional beliefs about how old we are?
Answer:psychological
This theorist believed that a child's mind was a blank slate and
whatever came into the child's mind came from the environmen
t.
Answer:John Locke
This Theorist believed that children's intellectual skills changed
over time, and maturation, not training, brings changes.
Answer:Jean Piaget
, During the first of Freud's psychosexual stages of development,
the child derives satisfaction from stimulation of which body par
t?
Answer:the mouth
This theorist made substantial contributions to psychology by id
entifying the principles of learning and used the ideas of stimulu
s and response with reinforcement?
Answer:B.F. Skinner
The three major types of research design for scientific investiga
tions.
-Experimental research
-Correlational research
-All of the above
-Descriptive Research
Answer:all of the above
The word _______ refers to the sum total of all the genes a per
son inherits and the word ______ refers to the features that are
actually expressed.
Answer:genotype; phenotype
Developmental Psychology, also known as Human Developme
nt or Lifespan Development is the scientific study of ways in:
People change
from conception to death
people stay the same
all of the above
Answer:all of the above
What age period is more crucial, characterizes, or dominates h
uman development?
Answer:No single age period is more crucial
Which Development in the Lifespan Perspective is characterize
d by the brain's ability to learn from experience and how it can r
ecover from injury?
Answer:Plasticity Development
The belief that our own culture is superior is called
,Answer:ethnocentrism
Lifespan refers to ________ and life expectancy refers to ____
____
Answer:length of years to live; prediction of number of years to l
ive
What is the _______ age that includes our cognitive capacity al
ong with our emotional beliefs about how old we are?
Answer:psychological
This theorist believed that a child's mind was a blank slate and
whatever came into the child's mind came from the environmen
t.
Answer:John Locke
This Theorist believed that children's intellectual skills changed
over time, and maturation, not training, brings changes.
Answer:Jean Piaget
, During the first of Freud's psychosexual stages of development,
the child derives satisfaction from stimulation of which body par
t?
Answer:the mouth
This theorist made substantial contributions to psychology by id
entifying the principles of learning and used the ideas of stimulu
s and response with reinforcement?
Answer:B.F. Skinner
The three major types of research design for scientific investiga
tions.
-Experimental research
-Correlational research
-All of the above
-Descriptive Research
Answer:all of the above
The word _______ refers to the sum total of all the genes a per
son inherits and the word ______ refers to the features that are
actually expressed.
Answer:genotype; phenotype
