CECE Exam 2025 Questions and
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Stage theorists assume... - ✔✔qualitative changes occur between stages
Epigenesis - ✔✔Each stage must be completed before moving to the next
Erikson Stage 1 - ✔✔Birth-1 Trust v Mistrust: Basic needs
Erikson Stage 2 - ✔✔1-3 Autonomy v Shame/doubt: sense of independence
Erikson Stage 3 - ✔✔3-6 Initiative vs Guilt
Erikson Stage 4 - ✔✔6-11 Industry v Inferiority: Self-confidence
Erikson Stage 5 - ✔✔12-18 Identity v Role Confusion: Identity crisis
Erikson Stage 6 - ✔✔18-25 Intimacy v Isolation: Sharing life with another
Erikson Stage 7 - ✔✔35-60 Generativity v Stagnation: mid-life crisis; work, family,
leisure; "age 30 crisis" in men; 805 of men experience mid-life crisis
Erikson Stage 8 - ✔✔65+ Integrity v Despair: ego integrity; no regrets
Erikson can be classified as... - ✔✔Maturationist
Ego psychologist - ✔✔Believes in man's power of reasoning to control behavior
Erikson considers... - ✔✔sociocultural demands and interpersonal issues
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, Erikson thinks ____ > ____ - ✔✔Environment > biological determination
Who is an ego psychologist? - ✔✔Erikson, Freud
Freud Stage 1 - ✔✔Birth-1 Oral (attachment)
Freud Stage 2 - ✔✔1-3 Anal
Freud Stage 3 - ✔✔3-7 Phallic
Oedipus complex - ✔✔Fantasy about mother
Electra Complex - ✔✔Fantasy about father
Freud Stage 4 - ✔✔3-5 Latency (hidden meaning of dream; sex drive is hidden by social
interests)
Freud Stage 5 - ✔✔Adolescence Genital
Id - ✔✔Pleasure principle
Ego - ✔✔Reality principle
Super-ego - ✔✔Morality principle
Freud said, "The __ is independent of the __" - ✔✔ego; id
Who is an epigenesis? - ✔✔Freud, Erikson, Kohlberg, Piaget
Freud can be called these three psycho___s - ✔✔Psychodynamic, psychoanalytic,
psychosexual
Who qualifies as a maturationist? - ✔✔Erikson and Freud
Piaget Stage 1 - ✔✔Birth-2 Sensorimotor
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Stage theorists assume... - ✔✔qualitative changes occur between stages
Epigenesis - ✔✔Each stage must be completed before moving to the next
Erikson Stage 1 - ✔✔Birth-1 Trust v Mistrust: Basic needs
Erikson Stage 2 - ✔✔1-3 Autonomy v Shame/doubt: sense of independence
Erikson Stage 3 - ✔✔3-6 Initiative vs Guilt
Erikson Stage 4 - ✔✔6-11 Industry v Inferiority: Self-confidence
Erikson Stage 5 - ✔✔12-18 Identity v Role Confusion: Identity crisis
Erikson Stage 6 - ✔✔18-25 Intimacy v Isolation: Sharing life with another
Erikson Stage 7 - ✔✔35-60 Generativity v Stagnation: mid-life crisis; work, family,
leisure; "age 30 crisis" in men; 805 of men experience mid-life crisis
Erikson Stage 8 - ✔✔65+ Integrity v Despair: ego integrity; no regrets
Erikson can be classified as... - ✔✔Maturationist
Ego psychologist - ✔✔Believes in man's power of reasoning to control behavior
Erikson considers... - ✔✔sociocultural demands and interpersonal issues
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, Erikson thinks ____ > ____ - ✔✔Environment > biological determination
Who is an ego psychologist? - ✔✔Erikson, Freud
Freud Stage 1 - ✔✔Birth-1 Oral (attachment)
Freud Stage 2 - ✔✔1-3 Anal
Freud Stage 3 - ✔✔3-7 Phallic
Oedipus complex - ✔✔Fantasy about mother
Electra Complex - ✔✔Fantasy about father
Freud Stage 4 - ✔✔3-5 Latency (hidden meaning of dream; sex drive is hidden by social
interests)
Freud Stage 5 - ✔✔Adolescence Genital
Id - ✔✔Pleasure principle
Ego - ✔✔Reality principle
Super-ego - ✔✔Morality principle
Freud said, "The __ is independent of the __" - ✔✔ego; id
Who is an epigenesis? - ✔✔Freud, Erikson, Kohlberg, Piaget
Freud can be called these three psycho___s - ✔✔Psychodynamic, psychoanalytic,
psychosexual
Who qualifies as a maturationist? - ✔✔Erikson and Freud
Piaget Stage 1 - ✔✔Birth-2 Sensorimotor
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