PSY 200 Final Exam Question Bank questions and well elaborate answers 2024

Explain continuity and discontinuity. -correct answer Continuity is experience through gradual changes. Discontinuity is discrete stages. List 5 teratogens. -correct answer alcohol, caffeine, aspirin, marijuana, nicotine Share a sociocultural influence on your personal development. -correct answer Father left at the age of 5. Name and describe Erikson's 3rd, 5th, and 7th psychosocial stages. -correct answer 1. 3rd Initiative vs. guilt - child begins to act on the world 2. 5th Identity vs. role confusion - Teens question who they are. Failure to answer question leads to role confusion and problems. 3. 7th Generativity vs. stagnation - are they contributing to the world around them or are they stagnant? What does research tell us about happiness and aging? -correct answer There are biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors that play into successful aging. The way a society and culture views aging and the elderly play a lot into the level of happiness we have towards aging. Name contributing factors to obesity related to (a) biology, (b) psychology, and (c) culture. -correct answer a) genetics b) learning and conditioning, emotional regulation, lifestyle c) availability of food, tradition What's the difference between anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa? -correct answer anorexia nervosa is the restless pursuit of being thin through starvation and bulimia nervosa is periods of binging and purging through vomiting or laxatives Draw the five levels of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. -correct answer 1. self-actualization