Baylor Psychology 1305 Final Exam 2
(Lawrence) Questions With 100%
Correct Answers 2025/2026 Update.
major issues developmental psychology focuses on - Answer nature v nurture, continuity and
stages, stability and change
stable and less stable? - Answer personality = stable; social attitudes = less stable
fetuses responsive to sound - Answer 6 months - prefer mother's language and voice
teratogens - Answer disease, drug, environmental gent that can harm a developing fetus
when are teratogens most effective - Answer during critical period - first 6 to 7 months
effects of fetal alcohol syndrome - Answer birth defects, behavioral problems, hyperactivity,
and lower intelligence
if mother is extremely stressed while pregnant, what could happen - Answer child could
have hypertension, obesity, and psychiatric disorders
automatic reflex responses that newborns are born with - Answer sucking, tonguing,
swallowing, breathing
habituation - Answer decrease in response from repeated simulation
maturation - Answer orderly sequence of biological growth
areas of brain first to develop - Answer frontal lobes - in charge of attention and area
areas of brain last to develop - Answer association areas - thinking, memory, language
what guides motor development - Answer genes - identical twins usually have same pace of
motor development
,when do we start recalling conscious memories - Answer after 3rd year - called infantile
amnesia
Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory - Answer Freud's idea of development of personality
identity - Answer animal instinct - food, sex, etc
ego - Answer balances ID and superego, personality, balances conscience with what ID wants
superego - Answer conscience, knows right/wrong, learns morality from surroundings
psychosexual stages - Answer oral
anal
phallic
latent
genital
Watson's theory - Answer input -> black box -> output
Skinner's theory - Answer positive reinforcement = powerful
catch being good
assimilation - Answer interpret new things according to our past experiences
accommodation - Answer adjust our rule to incorporate new information
Piaget's theory - Answer children were not born with innate ideas about reality and that we
construct our understanding of the world based on experiences (constructionism)
Piaget's stages - Answer 1) sensorimotor
2) preoperational
3) concrete operational
4) formal operational
sensorimotor (0-2) - Answer hearing, touching, mouthing, grasping
, scale errors
object permanence
preoperational (2-7) - Answer represent things with words and images but cannot perform
mental operations
egocentric
no hypotheticals
theory of mind
concrete operations (7-12) - Answer logical
trial and error
conservation
math
formal operations (12+) - Answer abstract thinking
imagine results of actions
moral reasoning
object permanence - Answer objects still exist even when they are not seen
theory of mind - Answer being able to infer other people's thoughts/minds/opinions
conservation - Answer concept that the quantity remains the same even if the shape
changes
Vygotsky's Theory - Answer child's mind grows through interaction with social environment
language provides building blocks for thinking
autism spectrum disorder - Answer impaired theory of mind
repetitive behaviors
impaired social skills
extreme male mind
good at math/following rules
children form stranger anxiety when - Answer 8 months
(Lawrence) Questions With 100%
Correct Answers 2025/2026 Update.
major issues developmental psychology focuses on - Answer nature v nurture, continuity and
stages, stability and change
stable and less stable? - Answer personality = stable; social attitudes = less stable
fetuses responsive to sound - Answer 6 months - prefer mother's language and voice
teratogens - Answer disease, drug, environmental gent that can harm a developing fetus
when are teratogens most effective - Answer during critical period - first 6 to 7 months
effects of fetal alcohol syndrome - Answer birth defects, behavioral problems, hyperactivity,
and lower intelligence
if mother is extremely stressed while pregnant, what could happen - Answer child could
have hypertension, obesity, and psychiatric disorders
automatic reflex responses that newborns are born with - Answer sucking, tonguing,
swallowing, breathing
habituation - Answer decrease in response from repeated simulation
maturation - Answer orderly sequence of biological growth
areas of brain first to develop - Answer frontal lobes - in charge of attention and area
areas of brain last to develop - Answer association areas - thinking, memory, language
what guides motor development - Answer genes - identical twins usually have same pace of
motor development
,when do we start recalling conscious memories - Answer after 3rd year - called infantile
amnesia
Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory - Answer Freud's idea of development of personality
identity - Answer animal instinct - food, sex, etc
ego - Answer balances ID and superego, personality, balances conscience with what ID wants
superego - Answer conscience, knows right/wrong, learns morality from surroundings
psychosexual stages - Answer oral
anal
phallic
latent
genital
Watson's theory - Answer input -> black box -> output
Skinner's theory - Answer positive reinforcement = powerful
catch being good
assimilation - Answer interpret new things according to our past experiences
accommodation - Answer adjust our rule to incorporate new information
Piaget's theory - Answer children were not born with innate ideas about reality and that we
construct our understanding of the world based on experiences (constructionism)
Piaget's stages - Answer 1) sensorimotor
2) preoperational
3) concrete operational
4) formal operational
sensorimotor (0-2) - Answer hearing, touching, mouthing, grasping
, scale errors
object permanence
preoperational (2-7) - Answer represent things with words and images but cannot perform
mental operations
egocentric
no hypotheticals
theory of mind
concrete operations (7-12) - Answer logical
trial and error
conservation
math
formal operations (12+) - Answer abstract thinking
imagine results of actions
moral reasoning
object permanence - Answer objects still exist even when they are not seen
theory of mind - Answer being able to infer other people's thoughts/minds/opinions
conservation - Answer concept that the quantity remains the same even if the shape
changes
Vygotsky's Theory - Answer child's mind grows through interaction with social environment
language provides building blocks for thinking
autism spectrum disorder - Answer impaired theory of mind
repetitive behaviors
impaired social skills
extreme male mind
good at math/following rules
children form stranger anxiety when - Answer 8 months
