NCE PREP EXAM- HUMAN GROWTH AND
DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Freud's Stages are psychosexual while Erik Erikson's stages are - Correct Answers -
Psychosocial (8 stages that focus on social relationships and thus are described as
psychosocial
What is the seat of sex and aggression? - Correct Answers -The ID
The Behaviorist generally feels that if it can't be measured then... - Correct Answers -it
doesn't exist. They don't believe in constructs like "the mind" or "the consciousness"
Who is the only psychoanalyst to create a developmental theory which encompasses
the entire life span? - Correct Answers -Erik Erikson
Who is Milton H. Erickson? - Correct Answers -Associated with brief psychotherapy and
innovative techniques in hypnosis.
What is the pleasure principle also known as? - Correct Answers -The ID
What is the reality principal known as? - Correct Answers -The Ego
Who is considered a pioneer in the behavior therapy movement? And what is he known
for? - Correct Answers -Arnold Lazarus, especially in regards to the use of systematic
desnsitization, a technique which helps clients cope with phobias. ALSO Multimodal
therapy.
William Perry is known for his ideas related to adult cognitive development, especially
college students. What concept does he stress? - Correct Answers -Dualistic Thinking-
Black and white thinking, write and wrong, assume there is one answer.
Realtivistic Thinking - Correct Answers -Where an individual now has the ability to
understand that not everyting is write or wrong but can exist relative to a specific
situation.
Jean Piaget's theory has 4 stages, what are they in correct order? - Correct Answers -
Sensorimotor, preoperations, concrete operations, formal operations
Piaget was adamant that the order of the stages are......for different cultures - Correct
Answers -the same, though the age of the individual could vary.
Who created the first intelligence test? - Correct Answers -Alfred Binet- France
,Swiss psychologist, Jean Piaget's developmental research was often derived from
observing - Correct Answers -His own children
What is Conservation? - Correct Answers -The notion that a substance's weight, mass,
and volume remain the same even if it changes shape.
According to Piaget, when does the child master conservation and the concept of
reversibility? - Correct Answers -During the concrete operations stage (7-11 years)
Who expanded on Piaget's concepts of moral development? - Correct Answers -
Lawrence Kohlberg
Who disagreed with Piaget on his notion that developmental stages take place
naturally? - Correct Answers -Russian Psychologist, Lev Vygotsky- he insisted that the
stages unfold due to educational intervention.
Who is the leading theorist in moral development? - Correct Answers -LAwrence
Kohlberg
What does Epigenetic mean? - Correct Answers -It's a biological term borrowed from
embryology. It states that each stage emerges from the one before it.
Who coined the term Behaviorism in 1912? - Correct Answers -John B. Watson
What is Egocentrism? - Correct Answers -The idea that a child cannot view the world
from the vantage point of someone else.
What were Kohlbergs levels of morality? - Correct Answers -preconventional,
conventional, and Postconventional. Postconventional can also be referred to in some
texts as the "Personal Integrity/ Morality" or "Self-Accepted Principles" level.
The Heinz story is to Kohlberg's theory as..
a. a brick is to a house
b. freud is to jung
c. the menninger clinic is to biofeedback
d. a typing test is to the level of typing skill mastered. - Correct Answers -D. The Heinz
Story is a method used by Kohlberg to assess the level and stage of moral development
in an individual.
Who is the father of analytic psychology? - Correct Answers -C.G. Jung
The term identity crisis comes from the work of? - Correct Answers -Erikson
What is positive Psychology? - Correct Answers -refers to the study of human strengths
such as joy, wisdom, altruism, the ability to love, happiness and wisdom.
, who coined the term positive psychology? - Correct Answers -Abraham Maslow
Who popularized the term Positive Psychology? - Correct Answers -Martin Seligman
what is Martin Seligman the pioneer of? - Correct Answers -Learned helplessness
syndrome
Who is the founder of individual psychology? - Correct Answers -Alfred Adler
What does individual psychology stress? - Correct Answers -The Inferiority complex
How did Kohlberg feel about people reaching the postconventional level of morality? -
Correct Answers -Didn't think many people ever reached it. Those people are
concerned with universal, ethical principles of justice, dignity, and equality of human
rights. His research suggested 40% of middle class urban males had reached that.
Martin Luther King Jr. is an example.
Which stage is trust versus mistrust in Erik Erikson's psychosocial development stages?
- Correct Answers -The first stage
What is harry Stack Sullivan's theory called? - Correct Answers -Psychiatry of
interpersonal relations- it is similar to erikson's theory in that biological determination is
seen as less important that inerpersonal issues and the sociocultural demands of
society.
What is the final stage of Erik Erikson? - Correct Answers -8th stage, Integrity versus
despair
At about what age does the final stage of Erik Erikson's begin? - Correct Answers -60
In Kohlberg's first or preconventional level, the individual's moral behavior is guided by?
- Correct Answers -Consequences
What is counter conditioning? - Correct Answers -A behavioristic technique in which the
goal is to weaen or eliminate a learned response by pairing it with a stronger or
desirable response.
Kohlberg's second level of morality is known as? - Correct Answers -Conventional
Morality
Kohlberg's Second Level, Conventional Morality is characterized by: - Correct Answers -
A desire to live up to society's expectations, and the desire to conform. (So that
authority and social order can prevail)
Kohlberg's highest level of morality is termed PostConventional Morality, here the
person has - Correct Answers -self imposed morals and ethics.
DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Freud's Stages are psychosexual while Erik Erikson's stages are - Correct Answers -
Psychosocial (8 stages that focus on social relationships and thus are described as
psychosocial
What is the seat of sex and aggression? - Correct Answers -The ID
The Behaviorist generally feels that if it can't be measured then... - Correct Answers -it
doesn't exist. They don't believe in constructs like "the mind" or "the consciousness"
Who is the only psychoanalyst to create a developmental theory which encompasses
the entire life span? - Correct Answers -Erik Erikson
Who is Milton H. Erickson? - Correct Answers -Associated with brief psychotherapy and
innovative techniques in hypnosis.
What is the pleasure principle also known as? - Correct Answers -The ID
What is the reality principal known as? - Correct Answers -The Ego
Who is considered a pioneer in the behavior therapy movement? And what is he known
for? - Correct Answers -Arnold Lazarus, especially in regards to the use of systematic
desnsitization, a technique which helps clients cope with phobias. ALSO Multimodal
therapy.
William Perry is known for his ideas related to adult cognitive development, especially
college students. What concept does he stress? - Correct Answers -Dualistic Thinking-
Black and white thinking, write and wrong, assume there is one answer.
Realtivistic Thinking - Correct Answers -Where an individual now has the ability to
understand that not everyting is write or wrong but can exist relative to a specific
situation.
Jean Piaget's theory has 4 stages, what are they in correct order? - Correct Answers -
Sensorimotor, preoperations, concrete operations, formal operations
Piaget was adamant that the order of the stages are......for different cultures - Correct
Answers -the same, though the age of the individual could vary.
Who created the first intelligence test? - Correct Answers -Alfred Binet- France
,Swiss psychologist, Jean Piaget's developmental research was often derived from
observing - Correct Answers -His own children
What is Conservation? - Correct Answers -The notion that a substance's weight, mass,
and volume remain the same even if it changes shape.
According to Piaget, when does the child master conservation and the concept of
reversibility? - Correct Answers -During the concrete operations stage (7-11 years)
Who expanded on Piaget's concepts of moral development? - Correct Answers -
Lawrence Kohlberg
Who disagreed with Piaget on his notion that developmental stages take place
naturally? - Correct Answers -Russian Psychologist, Lev Vygotsky- he insisted that the
stages unfold due to educational intervention.
Who is the leading theorist in moral development? - Correct Answers -LAwrence
Kohlberg
What does Epigenetic mean? - Correct Answers -It's a biological term borrowed from
embryology. It states that each stage emerges from the one before it.
Who coined the term Behaviorism in 1912? - Correct Answers -John B. Watson
What is Egocentrism? - Correct Answers -The idea that a child cannot view the world
from the vantage point of someone else.
What were Kohlbergs levels of morality? - Correct Answers -preconventional,
conventional, and Postconventional. Postconventional can also be referred to in some
texts as the "Personal Integrity/ Morality" or "Self-Accepted Principles" level.
The Heinz story is to Kohlberg's theory as..
a. a brick is to a house
b. freud is to jung
c. the menninger clinic is to biofeedback
d. a typing test is to the level of typing skill mastered. - Correct Answers -D. The Heinz
Story is a method used by Kohlberg to assess the level and stage of moral development
in an individual.
Who is the father of analytic psychology? - Correct Answers -C.G. Jung
The term identity crisis comes from the work of? - Correct Answers -Erikson
What is positive Psychology? - Correct Answers -refers to the study of human strengths
such as joy, wisdom, altruism, the ability to love, happiness and wisdom.
, who coined the term positive psychology? - Correct Answers -Abraham Maslow
Who popularized the term Positive Psychology? - Correct Answers -Martin Seligman
what is Martin Seligman the pioneer of? - Correct Answers -Learned helplessness
syndrome
Who is the founder of individual psychology? - Correct Answers -Alfred Adler
What does individual psychology stress? - Correct Answers -The Inferiority complex
How did Kohlberg feel about people reaching the postconventional level of morality? -
Correct Answers -Didn't think many people ever reached it. Those people are
concerned with universal, ethical principles of justice, dignity, and equality of human
rights. His research suggested 40% of middle class urban males had reached that.
Martin Luther King Jr. is an example.
Which stage is trust versus mistrust in Erik Erikson's psychosocial development stages?
- Correct Answers -The first stage
What is harry Stack Sullivan's theory called? - Correct Answers -Psychiatry of
interpersonal relations- it is similar to erikson's theory in that biological determination is
seen as less important that inerpersonal issues and the sociocultural demands of
society.
What is the final stage of Erik Erikson? - Correct Answers -8th stage, Integrity versus
despair
At about what age does the final stage of Erik Erikson's begin? - Correct Answers -60
In Kohlberg's first or preconventional level, the individual's moral behavior is guided by?
- Correct Answers -Consequences
What is counter conditioning? - Correct Answers -A behavioristic technique in which the
goal is to weaen or eliminate a learned response by pairing it with a stronger or
desirable response.
Kohlberg's second level of morality is known as? - Correct Answers -Conventional
Morality
Kohlberg's Second Level, Conventional Morality is characterized by: - Correct Answers -
A desire to live up to society's expectations, and the desire to conform. (So that
authority and social order can prevail)
Kohlberg's highest level of morality is termed PostConventional Morality, here the
person has - Correct Answers -self imposed morals and ethics.
