Lpc exam Questions and Answers
Graded A+
Freud's stages are psychosexual while Erik Erikson's stages are - answer
Psychosocial
In Freud's psychodynamic theory instincts are emphasized. Erik Erikson is an ego
psychologist. Ego psychologists - answer Believe in mans power or reasoning to
control behavior
Psychodynamic theories focus on .... rather than on cognitive factors when counseling
clients - answer unconscious processes
... is the only psychoanalyst who created a developmental theory that encompasses the
entire lifespan - answer Erik Erikson
The statement, "the ego is dependent on the id," would most likely reflect the work of -
answer Sigmund Freud, psychodynamic theory
In Freudian theory, the ID... - answer is the pleasure principle that houses animalistic
instincts
In Freudian theory, the ego - answer Reality principle that is pressured to succumb
to the ID and pleasure of gratification without thinking about consequences
Erik Erikson would not emphasize the role of the ID but rather - answer focus on the
control of the ego
Robert Perry is known for his ideas related to - answer adult cognitive development,
especially for college students.
Robert Perry stresses concept of dualistic thinking - answer In which things are
conceptualized as good/bad, right/wrong
Ed Neukrug - answer relativistic thinking in adulthood allows individuals the ability to
perceive that not everything is right or wrong, but an answer can exist relative to a
specific situation
Jean Piaget's idiographic approach created his theory with four stages. The correct
order from stage 1 to stage 4 is - answer sensorimotor, preoperations, concrete
operations, formal operations
,Some behavioral scientists have been critical of the Swiss child psychologist Jean
Piaget's developmental research inasmuch as - answer 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 indicates
that she feels the small pitcher has less water. The child has not yet mastered - answer
conservation which refers to the notion that a substance's weight, mass and volume
remain the same even if it changes shape.
In Piagetian literature, conservation would most likely refer to - answer volume or
mass
A child masters conservation in the Piagetian stage known as - answer concrete
operations - ages 7-11 years old
... expanded on Piaget's conceptualization of moral development - answer Lawrence
Kohlberg
Epigenetic - answer each stage emerges from the one before it
Kohlberg is the leading theorist in - answer moral development and used stories to
determine the level or moral development in children
According to Jean Piaget, a child masters the concept of reversibility in the third stage
known as concrete operations or concrete operational thought. This notion is that -
answer one can undo an action, hence an object (such as glass of water) can return
to its original shape
During a thunderstorm, a 6-year-old child in Piaget's stage of preoperational thought
(stage 2) says, "The rain is following me." This is an example of - answer
egocentrism which conveys the fact that a child cannot view the world from the vantage
point of someone else
Lawrence Kohlberg suggested - answer Three levels of morality : Preconventional,
Conventional, and Postconventional. Each level can be broken down further into two
stages.
The Heinz dilemma is to Kohlberg's theory as - answer a typing test is to the level of
typing skill mastered.
Heinz Dilemma
(Kohlberg) - answer - asks a participant to explain why he believes it is better to steal
a drug to save a person's life or to obey the law by not stealing the drug
The term identity crisis comes from the work of - answer Erik Erikson
,RS means - answer religious and spiritual
Kohlberg's three levels of morality - answer -preconventional in which a child
responds to consequences (reward and punishment) greatly influence behavior
-Conventional - individual wants to meet the standards of family, society, and even
nation
-Postconventional - self -accepted morality - concerned with universal, ethical, principles
of justice, dignity, equality of human rights (Kohlberg believed many people never reach
postconventional stage)
Trust vs. Mistrust is - answer Erikson's first stage of psychosocial development
A person who has successfully mastered Erikson's first seven stages would be ready to
enter the final stage of - answer integrity vs despair (begins about age 60) and says
that a person feels sense of integrity that life has been worthwhile or feels despair about
their life
Kohlberg's second level of morality is known as conventional morality. This level is
characterized by - answer A desire to live up to society's expectations and a desire
to conform
The zone of proximal development - answer pioneered by Lev Vygotsky and
describes the difference between a child's performance without a teacher vs that which
he/she is capable of with an instructor
Freud and Erikson could be classified as - answer Maturationists meaning that
behavior is guided exclusively by hereditary factors, but that certain behaviors will not
manifest themselves until the necessary stimuli are present in the environment.
John Bowlby, the British psychiatrist, is most closely associated with: - answer
bonding and attachment - in order to lead a normal social life, the child must bond with
an adult before the age of 3.
In which Eriksonian stage does the midlife crisis occur? - answer Generativity vs.
stagnation
The researcher who is well known for his work with maternal deprivation and isolation in
rhesus monkey is - answer Harry Harlow
The statement that males are better than females when performing mathematical
calculations is - answer True according to research by Eleanor Maccoby and Carol
Jacklin - they found this does not happen until hs/college and that it may be due to
child-rearing patterns rather than bodily chemistry
Erikson stage that focuses heavily on sharing your life with another person - answer
intimacy vs isolation - age 23-34
, We often refer to individuals as conformists. Which of these individuals would most
likely conform to his or her peers? - answer 13 year old male middle school student
as conformity tends to peak in teen years
In Harry Harlow's experiments with baby monkeys - answer the baby monkey was
more likely to cling to a terry cloth mother surrogate than a wire surrogate mother. He
found that contact comfort is important in the development of attachment, even though
the wire monkey could dispense milk.
Freud postulated the psychosexual stages - answer oral, anal, phallic, latency, and
genital
Freud manifest content - answer plot of dream
Freud latent content - answer hidden meaning of a dream
In adolescence... - answer males commit suicide more often than females, but
females attempt suicide more often than males
In the general U.S. population - answer suicide rates tend to increase with age.
The fear of death - answer is greatest during middle age.
In Freudian theory, attachment is a major factor - answer which evolves primarily
during the oral age.
when comparing girls to boys, in general - answer -girls grow up to smile more
-girls are using more feeling words by age 2
-girls are better able to read people without verbal cues at any age
-boys on the other hand are sometimes more physically active and aggressive
The Freudian stage that least emphasizes sexuality is - answer latency - ages 6 -12
In terms of parenting young children - answer boys are punished more than girls
When developmental theorists speak of nature or nurture they really mean - answer
how much heredity or environment interact to influence development
stage theorists assume - answer qualitative changes between stages occur.
development begins - answer is a continuous process which begins at conception
development is cephalocaudal, which means - answer head to foot - the head of the
fetus develops earlier than the legs
Graded A+
Freud's stages are psychosexual while Erik Erikson's stages are - answer
Psychosocial
In Freud's psychodynamic theory instincts are emphasized. Erik Erikson is an ego
psychologist. Ego psychologists - answer Believe in mans power or reasoning to
control behavior
Psychodynamic theories focus on .... rather than on cognitive factors when counseling
clients - answer unconscious processes
... is the only psychoanalyst who created a developmental theory that encompasses the
entire lifespan - answer Erik Erikson
The statement, "the ego is dependent on the id," would most likely reflect the work of -
answer Sigmund Freud, psychodynamic theory
In Freudian theory, the ID... - answer is the pleasure principle that houses animalistic
instincts
In Freudian theory, the ego - answer Reality principle that is pressured to succumb
to the ID and pleasure of gratification without thinking about consequences
Erik Erikson would not emphasize the role of the ID but rather - answer focus on the
control of the ego
Robert Perry is known for his ideas related to - answer adult cognitive development,
especially for college students.
Robert Perry stresses concept of dualistic thinking - answer In which things are
conceptualized as good/bad, right/wrong
Ed Neukrug - answer relativistic thinking in adulthood allows individuals the ability to
perceive that not everything is right or wrong, but an answer can exist relative to a
specific situation
Jean Piaget's idiographic approach created his theory with four stages. The correct
order from stage 1 to stage 4 is - answer sensorimotor, preoperations, concrete
operations, formal operations
,Some behavioral scientists have been critical of the Swiss child psychologist Jean
Piaget's developmental research inasmuch as - answer 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 indicates
that she feels the small pitcher has less water. The child has not yet mastered - answer
conservation which refers to the notion that a substance's weight, mass and volume
remain the same even if it changes shape.
In Piagetian literature, conservation would most likely refer to - answer volume or
mass
A child masters conservation in the Piagetian stage known as - answer concrete
operations - ages 7-11 years old
... expanded on Piaget's conceptualization of moral development - answer Lawrence
Kohlberg
Epigenetic - answer each stage emerges from the one before it
Kohlberg is the leading theorist in - answer moral development and used stories to
determine the level or moral development in children
According to Jean Piaget, a child masters the concept of reversibility in the third stage
known as concrete operations or concrete operational thought. This notion is that -
answer one can undo an action, hence an object (such as glass of water) can return
to its original shape
During a thunderstorm, a 6-year-old child in Piaget's stage of preoperational thought
(stage 2) says, "The rain is following me." This is an example of - answer
egocentrism which conveys the fact that a child cannot view the world from the vantage
point of someone else
Lawrence Kohlberg suggested - answer Three levels of morality : Preconventional,
Conventional, and Postconventional. Each level can be broken down further into two
stages.
The Heinz dilemma is to Kohlberg's theory as - answer a typing test is to the level of
typing skill mastered.
Heinz Dilemma
(Kohlberg) - answer - asks a participant to explain why he believes it is better to steal
a drug to save a person's life or to obey the law by not stealing the drug
The term identity crisis comes from the work of - answer Erik Erikson
,RS means - answer religious and spiritual
Kohlberg's three levels of morality - answer -preconventional in which a child
responds to consequences (reward and punishment) greatly influence behavior
-Conventional - individual wants to meet the standards of family, society, and even
nation
-Postconventional - self -accepted morality - concerned with universal, ethical, principles
of justice, dignity, equality of human rights (Kohlberg believed many people never reach
postconventional stage)
Trust vs. Mistrust is - answer Erikson's first stage of psychosocial development
A person who has successfully mastered Erikson's first seven stages would be ready to
enter the final stage of - answer integrity vs despair (begins about age 60) and says
that a person feels sense of integrity that life has been worthwhile or feels despair about
their life
Kohlberg's second level of morality is known as conventional morality. This level is
characterized by - answer A desire to live up to society's expectations and a desire
to conform
The zone of proximal development - answer pioneered by Lev Vygotsky and
describes the difference between a child's performance without a teacher vs that which
he/she is capable of with an instructor
Freud and Erikson could be classified as - answer Maturationists meaning that
behavior is guided exclusively by hereditary factors, but that certain behaviors will not
manifest themselves until the necessary stimuli are present in the environment.
John Bowlby, the British psychiatrist, is most closely associated with: - answer
bonding and attachment - in order to lead a normal social life, the child must bond with
an adult before the age of 3.
In which Eriksonian stage does the midlife crisis occur? - answer Generativity vs.
stagnation
The researcher who is well known for his work with maternal deprivation and isolation in
rhesus monkey is - answer Harry Harlow
The statement that males are better than females when performing mathematical
calculations is - answer True according to research by Eleanor Maccoby and Carol
Jacklin - they found this does not happen until hs/college and that it may be due to
child-rearing patterns rather than bodily chemistry
Erikson stage that focuses heavily on sharing your life with another person - answer
intimacy vs isolation - age 23-34
, We often refer to individuals as conformists. Which of these individuals would most
likely conform to his or her peers? - answer 13 year old male middle school student
as conformity tends to peak in teen years
In Harry Harlow's experiments with baby monkeys - answer the baby monkey was
more likely to cling to a terry cloth mother surrogate than a wire surrogate mother. He
found that contact comfort is important in the development of attachment, even though
the wire monkey could dispense milk.
Freud postulated the psychosexual stages - answer oral, anal, phallic, latency, and
genital
Freud manifest content - answer plot of dream
Freud latent content - answer hidden meaning of a dream
In adolescence... - answer males commit suicide more often than females, but
females attempt suicide more often than males
In the general U.S. population - answer suicide rates tend to increase with age.
The fear of death - answer is greatest during middle age.
In Freudian theory, attachment is a major factor - answer which evolves primarily
during the oral age.
when comparing girls to boys, in general - answer -girls grow up to smile more
-girls are using more feeling words by age 2
-girls are better able to read people without verbal cues at any age
-boys on the other hand are sometimes more physically active and aggressive
The Freudian stage that least emphasizes sexuality is - answer latency - ages 6 -12
In terms of parenting young children - answer boys are punished more than girls
When developmental theorists speak of nature or nurture they really mean - answer
how much heredity or environment interact to influence development
stage theorists assume - answer qualitative changes between stages occur.
development begins - answer is a continuous process which begins at conception
development is cephalocaudal, which means - answer head to foot - the head of the
fetus develops earlier than the legs
