Human Development HDEV6 Midterm
Study Guide UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Accomodation - CORRECT ANSWER - adapting our current understandings (schemas) to
incorporate new information
Mary Ainsworth - CORRECT ANSWER - Theorist, studied types of attachment by use of
the strange situation test
Asperger's disorder - CORRECT ANSWER - Mild form of Autism, normal IQ, high level
social skills, socially uncomfortable w/ illogical thinking, restricted interests & behaviors,
clumsy
Assimilation - CORRECT ANSWER - interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's
existing schemas
Attachment - CORRECT ANSWER - an emotional tie with another person; shown in
young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation
What is Bronfenbrenner's theory? - CORRECT ANSWER - ecological systems theory
cephalocaudal - CORRECT ANSWER - "Head to tail"
Lower part of body grows later than the head
Cesarean section - CORRECT ANSWER - a surgical method of birth
concrete-operational - CORRECT ANSWER - in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive
development (from about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental
operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events
, Conservation - CORRECT ANSWER - the principle that properties such as mass, volume,
and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects, Piaget recognized that it is
lacking in preoperational children
dizygotic - CORRECT ANSWER - twins from two separate zygotes
Down's syndrome - CORRECT ANSWER - A congenital disorder caused by having an
extra Chromosome 21.
egocentrism - CORRECT ANSWER - in Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's
difficulty taking another's point of view
Erickson's stages - CORRECT ANSWER - trust vs mistrust,
autonomy vs shame and doubt,
initiative vs guilt,
industry vs inferiority,
identity vs role confusion,
intimacy vs isolation,
generativity vs stagnation,
integrity vs despair
Freud's psychosexual theory of development - CORRECT ANSWER - Sequential and
discontinuous stages with changing erogenous zone and conflict in each stage. If conflict is not
successfully resolved, result is fixation
gender schema - CORRECT ANSWER - a cognitive framework that organizes
information relevant to gender
Study Guide UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Accomodation - CORRECT ANSWER - adapting our current understandings (schemas) to
incorporate new information
Mary Ainsworth - CORRECT ANSWER - Theorist, studied types of attachment by use of
the strange situation test
Asperger's disorder - CORRECT ANSWER - Mild form of Autism, normal IQ, high level
social skills, socially uncomfortable w/ illogical thinking, restricted interests & behaviors,
clumsy
Assimilation - CORRECT ANSWER - interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's
existing schemas
Attachment - CORRECT ANSWER - an emotional tie with another person; shown in
young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation
What is Bronfenbrenner's theory? - CORRECT ANSWER - ecological systems theory
cephalocaudal - CORRECT ANSWER - "Head to tail"
Lower part of body grows later than the head
Cesarean section - CORRECT ANSWER - a surgical method of birth
concrete-operational - CORRECT ANSWER - in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive
development (from about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental
operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events
, Conservation - CORRECT ANSWER - the principle that properties such as mass, volume,
and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects, Piaget recognized that it is
lacking in preoperational children
dizygotic - CORRECT ANSWER - twins from two separate zygotes
Down's syndrome - CORRECT ANSWER - A congenital disorder caused by having an
extra Chromosome 21.
egocentrism - CORRECT ANSWER - in Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's
difficulty taking another's point of view
Erickson's stages - CORRECT ANSWER - trust vs mistrust,
autonomy vs shame and doubt,
initiative vs guilt,
industry vs inferiority,
identity vs role confusion,
intimacy vs isolation,
generativity vs stagnation,
integrity vs despair
Freud's psychosexual theory of development - CORRECT ANSWER - Sequential and
discontinuous stages with changing erogenous zone and conflict in each stage. If conflict is not
successfully resolved, result is fixation
gender schema - CORRECT ANSWER - a cognitive framework that organizes
information relevant to gender
