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Freud's stages are psychosexual while Erik Erikson's stages are
✓ ~~> psychosocial
In Freud's psychodynamic theory, instincts are emphasized. Erik Erikson is an
ego psychologist. Ego psychologists
✓ ~~> believe in man's powers of reasoning to control behavior.
Psychodynamic theories focus on___________ __________ rather than cognitive
factors when counseling clients.
✓ ~~> unconcsious processes
The ___ is logical, rational, and utilizes the power of reasoning and control to
keep impulses in check. The reality principle.
✓ ~~> ego
The behaviorist generally feels that if it can't be __________ then it doesn't
exist.
✓ ~~> measured
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The __ is chaotic and concerned only with the body, not with the outside
world. This is the pleasure principle and houses the animalistic instincts.
✓ ~~> id
The only psychoanalyst who created a developmental theory which
encompasses the entire life span was
✓ ~~> Erik Erikson
The statement "the ego is dependent on the id" would most likely reflect the
work of
✓ ~~> Sigmund Freud
Known for his ideas related to adult cognitive development; especially
regarding college students. Stresses a concept known as dualistic thinking,
common to teens in which things are conceptualized as good or bad or right
or wrong.
✓ ~~> Robert Perry
Known for his work in strategic and problem-solving therapy, often utilizing the
technique of paradox. Claims to have acquired information by studying
works of Milton H. Erickson.
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✓ ~~> Jay Haley
Considered a pioneer in the behavior therapy movement, especially in
regard to the use of systematic desensitization, a technique which helps
client cope with phobias. Today his name is associated with multimodal
therapy.
✓ ~~> Arnold Lazarus
Known figure in the area of adult cognitive development. His model stresses
interpersonal development. His theory is billed as a "constructive model of
development, meaning that individuals construct reality through the lifespan."
✓ ~~> Robert Keegan
Jean Piaget's idiographic approach created his theory with four stages. The
correct order from stage 1 to stage 4 is
✓ ~~> sensorimotor, preoperations, concrete operations, formal
operations
Idiographic approaches to theories, such as Freud and Piaget, examine
_________ in depth.
✓ ~~> individuals
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In contrast to idiographic approaches, nomothetic approaches (such as
behaviorism or the DSM) student general principles that apply to
✓ ~~> the population
Some behavioral scientists have been critical of Swiss child psychologist Jean
Piaget's developmental research inasmuch as
✓ ~~> his findings were often derived from observing his own children
A tall skinny pitcher of water is emptied into a small squatty pitcher. A child
indicated that she feels the small pitcher has less water. The child has not yet
mastered
✓ ~~> conservation
In Piaget's theory, the term __________ refers to the notion that a substance's
weight, mass, and volume remain the same even if it changes shape.
According to Piaget, the child masters this concept during the concrete
operations stage (7-11 years).
✓ ~~> conservation
Conservation and counting belong in which Piaget stage?
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