Psy 220
Mod 1 Quiz
1. Which of the following is not listed by your textbook as one of the three major domains
within which development takes place? Cultural
2. Mary has a group of friends who all entered first grade at the same time. They are now in
their senior year in high school. They have all experienced similar events such as getting
a driver’s license, beginning dating, graduating from middle school etc. at about the same
time. These would be examples of_____________________ influences. normative age-
graded
3. A ____________ is a possible explanation for phenomena that is used to predict the
outcome of research. Hypothesis
4. Freud suggested that as a child develops development centers upon attempts to obtain
gratification and avoid frustration from various body areas and systems. He called these
the five ____________________ stages of development. Psychosexual
5. Erik Erikson suggests that humans develop by passing through eight distinct stages in
which the ego increases in its strength and ability to perform behaviors according to
socially and culturally prescriptions. He calls these his eight ______________________
stages of development. Psychosocial
6. In Piaget’s theory, internal organized patterns of behavior that a person uses to think
about the world and to act are called: schemes aka schema or schemata
7. Piaget suggests that when new information is encountered, the child attempts to fit it into
what they already know about the world. This process of attempting to incorporation
information into existing cognitive structure he called: assimilation
8. Piaget says that when new information does not fit into existing cognitive structures, the
child will change those structures to include the new information. He called this process
of changing one’s world view to fit new information: accommodation
9. Development occurs when a stimulus that is neutral is paired with another stimulus that
automatically elicits a response. After this pairing of stimuli, the first stimulus loses its
neutrality and it too begins to elicit a response. This statement describes development
Mod 1 Quiz
1. Which of the following is not listed by your textbook as one of the three major domains
within which development takes place? Cultural
2. Mary has a group of friends who all entered first grade at the same time. They are now in
their senior year in high school. They have all experienced similar events such as getting
a driver’s license, beginning dating, graduating from middle school etc. at about the same
time. These would be examples of_____________________ influences. normative age-
graded
3. A ____________ is a possible explanation for phenomena that is used to predict the
outcome of research. Hypothesis
4. Freud suggested that as a child develops development centers upon attempts to obtain
gratification and avoid frustration from various body areas and systems. He called these
the five ____________________ stages of development. Psychosexual
5. Erik Erikson suggests that humans develop by passing through eight distinct stages in
which the ego increases in its strength and ability to perform behaviors according to
socially and culturally prescriptions. He calls these his eight ______________________
stages of development. Psychosocial
6. In Piaget’s theory, internal organized patterns of behavior that a person uses to think
about the world and to act are called: schemes aka schema or schemata
7. Piaget suggests that when new information is encountered, the child attempts to fit it into
what they already know about the world. This process of attempting to incorporation
information into existing cognitive structure he called: assimilation
8. Piaget says that when new information does not fit into existing cognitive structures, the
child will change those structures to include the new information. He called this process
of changing one’s world view to fit new information: accommodation
9. Development occurs when a stimulus that is neutral is paired with another stimulus that
automatically elicits a response. After this pairing of stimuli, the first stimulus loses its
neutrality and it too begins to elicit a response. This statement describes development
