CPCE Exam Practice with Accurate
Solutions
Freud's Psychosexual Stages:
(Oh Anthony Please Let Go) - ANSWER-1. Oral
2. Anal
3. Phallic
4. Latency
5. Genital
Erickson's Stages of Psychosocial Development
(The Air In Iceland is Icy, Greenland's Isn't) - ANSWER-1. Trust vs. Mistrust
2. Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
3. Industry Vs. Inferiority
4. Initiative vs. Guilt
5. Identity vs. Role Confusion
6. Intimacy vs. Isolation
7. Generativity vs. Stagnation
8. Integrity vs. Despair
Trust vs. mistrust - ANSWER-Ages 0-18 months
Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt - ANSWER-18 months - 3 years
Industry vs Inferiority - ANSWER-3-5 years
Initiative vs. Guilt - ANSWER-Ages 5-13
Identity vs Role Confusion - ANSWER-13-21
Intimacy vs Isolation - ANSWER-21- 39
Generativity vs. Stagnation - ANSWER-40-65
Integrity vs. Despair - ANSWER-65 and older
AA Brill - ANSWER-Career Theory
Jean Piaget - ANSWER-Cognitive Child Development
Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development - ANSWER-1. sensorimotor
, 2. preoperational
3. concrete operational
4. formal operational
Criticism of Piaget's Theory - ANSWER-Too much time studying his own kids, not wide
enough sample
Jay Haley - ANSWER-Brief, Strategic Therapy, Paradox Technique
John B. Watson - ANSWER-Father of American Behaviorism
Martin Segliman - ANSWER-learned helplessness, positive psychology
Alfred Adler - ANSWER-Father of Individual Psychology
Defense Mechanism: Projection - ANSWER-individuals attributing their own
unacceptable thoughts/feelings to another person
Defense Mechanisms: Rationalization - ANSWER-Attempting to make excuses or
formulate logical reasons to justify unacceptable feelings or behaviors
Defense Mechanism: Reaction Formation - ANSWER-a person goes beyond denial and
acts in the opposite way he/she is thinking or feeling
Defense Mechanisms: Repression - ANSWER-keeping disturbing or unpleasant
thoughts from consciousness
Defense Mechanisms: Sublimation - ANSWER-satisfying an impulse in a socially
acceptable way
WISC - ANSWER-Children's IQ Test
WAIS - ANSWER-Adult IQ (16 or Older), most common IQ test
Assimilation - ANSWER-interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing
schemas
Accomodation - ANSWER-adapting our current understandings (schemas) to
incorporate new information
Approach-Approach Conflict - ANSWER-Conflict that results from having to choose
between two attractive alternatives
Approach-Avoidance Conflict - ANSWER-when one option has both positive and
negative aspects
Solutions
Freud's Psychosexual Stages:
(Oh Anthony Please Let Go) - ANSWER-1. Oral
2. Anal
3. Phallic
4. Latency
5. Genital
Erickson's Stages of Psychosocial Development
(The Air In Iceland is Icy, Greenland's Isn't) - ANSWER-1. Trust vs. Mistrust
2. Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
3. Industry Vs. Inferiority
4. Initiative vs. Guilt
5. Identity vs. Role Confusion
6. Intimacy vs. Isolation
7. Generativity vs. Stagnation
8. Integrity vs. Despair
Trust vs. mistrust - ANSWER-Ages 0-18 months
Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt - ANSWER-18 months - 3 years
Industry vs Inferiority - ANSWER-3-5 years
Initiative vs. Guilt - ANSWER-Ages 5-13
Identity vs Role Confusion - ANSWER-13-21
Intimacy vs Isolation - ANSWER-21- 39
Generativity vs. Stagnation - ANSWER-40-65
Integrity vs. Despair - ANSWER-65 and older
AA Brill - ANSWER-Career Theory
Jean Piaget - ANSWER-Cognitive Child Development
Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development - ANSWER-1. sensorimotor
, 2. preoperational
3. concrete operational
4. formal operational
Criticism of Piaget's Theory - ANSWER-Too much time studying his own kids, not wide
enough sample
Jay Haley - ANSWER-Brief, Strategic Therapy, Paradox Technique
John B. Watson - ANSWER-Father of American Behaviorism
Martin Segliman - ANSWER-learned helplessness, positive psychology
Alfred Adler - ANSWER-Father of Individual Psychology
Defense Mechanism: Projection - ANSWER-individuals attributing their own
unacceptable thoughts/feelings to another person
Defense Mechanisms: Rationalization - ANSWER-Attempting to make excuses or
formulate logical reasons to justify unacceptable feelings or behaviors
Defense Mechanism: Reaction Formation - ANSWER-a person goes beyond denial and
acts in the opposite way he/she is thinking or feeling
Defense Mechanisms: Repression - ANSWER-keeping disturbing or unpleasant
thoughts from consciousness
Defense Mechanisms: Sublimation - ANSWER-satisfying an impulse in a socially
acceptable way
WISC - ANSWER-Children's IQ Test
WAIS - ANSWER-Adult IQ (16 or Older), most common IQ test
Assimilation - ANSWER-interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing
schemas
Accomodation - ANSWER-adapting our current understandings (schemas) to
incorporate new information
Approach-Approach Conflict - ANSWER-Conflict that results from having to choose
between two attractive alternatives
Approach-Avoidance Conflict - ANSWER-when one option has both positive and
negative aspects
