Child Development Psychology Exam 1 questions and answers with solutions 2025/2026

Child Development Psychology
Exam 1 questions and answers with solutions
2025/2026



three grand theories - ANSWER psychoanalytic, behaviorism, and
cognitive theory


psychoanalytic theory - ANSWER Freud; irrational, unconscious drives
and motives, often originating in childhood, underlies all human
behavior


behaviorism theory - ANSWER Watson; all behavior is learned, strongly
rooted in verifiable data with controlled experiments


cognitive theory - ANSWER Piaget; focuses on changes in how people
think over time


Freud's stages of development - ANSWER 1) oral 2) anal 3) phallic
4)latency 5) genital


Erikson's stages of development - ANSWER 1) trust vs. mistrust 2)
autonomy vs. shame 3) initiative vs. guilt 4) industry vs. inferiority 5)

, identity vs. identity diffusion 6) intimacy vs. isolation 7) generatively vs.
self-absorption 8) integrity vs. despair


classical conditioning - ANSWER neutral stimulus +meaningful stimuli +
repeated application = neutral stimulus -> involuntary response


operant conditioning - ANSWER reinforcing or punishing voluntary
behaviors


reinforcement - ANSWER behavior is followed by something desired to
increase behavior


punishment - ANSWER behavior is followed by something unwanted to
decrease behavior


positive (in regards to reinforcement or punishment) - ANSWER adding
something


negative (in regards to reinforcement or punishment) - ANSWER taking
something away


social learning theory - ANSWER emphasis on the influence that other
people have on anothers behavior


modeling - ANSWER a person observes the behavior of others and then
copies