Name: Score:
85 Multiple choice questions
,Term 1 of 85
What are the Big Five personality traits? What outcomes (academic/social) are they associated
with? What specific combinations of traits seem important?
Openness (to experience) - curiosity/ exploration
Conscientiousness - dependable/orderly (effortful control)
Extraversion - energetic/ sensation seeking ((high) activity, (low) behavioral inhibition)
Agreeableness - thoughtful/cooperative (people pleaser)
Neuroticism - insecure (constant worriness) (negative emotionality)
Academic achievement:
- Conscientiousness (academics), agreeableness (GPA), and openness (SAT)
Social competence:
- Conscientiousness + agreeableness = fewer beahvior problems
1) Authoritarian: high demandingness/ low responsiveness
- low warmth, rigid rules, harsh discipline
(potentially protective)
2) Authoritative: high demandingness/ high responsiveness
- best outcome for normal environment kids
- warm, responsive involvement
- clear standards, open communication
3) Permissive-indifferent: low demandingness/ low responsiveness
- WORST outcome for kids
- emotionally detached
4) Permissive-indulgent: low demandingness/ high responsiveness
- warm and responsive
- few demands, rules, or expectations
(Laid back)
0-2: Needed guided self-regulation, often fussy
- Infants: basic coping strategies (sucking, appearing to sleep)
- Toddlers: dissemble a bit (tears withheld), decreased fear responses
- Anger, fussiness, irritability increase steadily to "terrible 2"
3-5: General negativity levels off or decreases (2-5), tantrums disappear
- Choose ineffective strategies more often than older children
6-12:
- Use little social support for dealing with emotions
- More coping strategies
- Better at selecting from strategies
, - Rely on emotion-focused strategy
Adolescents: Use more diverse strategies for managing emotions
- Reframing problems, self-talk, considering consequences of responses (develops with
cognitive abilities)
- Teens may also use alcohol, drugs, and food to cope
Before 9 months: Infants respond to direct stimulation, but don't really attempt to share
with others.
After 9 months: Children start to understand a referential triangle
(Important because the child develops their ability to view the world from different
perspectives)
Term 2 of 85
The Strange Situation Procedure is primarily a measure of:
power assertive discipline and negative outcomes are associated with this (depression,
antisocial behavior)
different personality types (behavior)
Sadness
Anger
Disgust
Joy/happiness
Interest
Fear
Antisocial/ aggressive outcomes
, Term 3 of 85
What is the triarchic theory?
Referential triangle involving the adult, the child, and the object or event to which they
share attention.
- pointing
- gaze following
- social referencing (visual cliff)
- imitative learning (Bandura)
Infants: stranger wariness (8-9 months)
Toddlers: separation distress, social referencing (1-2 years)
Middle Childhood: greater tolerance of separation, importance of attachment figure's
availability
Adolescence: increased autonomy, parents still primary attachment figure
General class of traits related to everything from activity level and mood to self-
regulatory abilities such as shifting attention and managing emotions. Difference in the
intensity and patterns of emotions and arousal
Sternberg's theory that uses three types of intelligence in order to explain success, but
doesn't tell us how kids will do in school.
1) Analytic - defining and solving problems (math equations)
2) Practical - real world experiences
3) Creative - generating ideas
Term 4 of 85
What are display rules?
Principles for resolving conflicts in a relationship
Norms that govern the appropriate display of emotions in a culture
Guidelines for effective communication in a workplace
Rules for organizing information in a presentation
85 Multiple choice questions
,Term 1 of 85
What are the Big Five personality traits? What outcomes (academic/social) are they associated
with? What specific combinations of traits seem important?
Openness (to experience) - curiosity/ exploration
Conscientiousness - dependable/orderly (effortful control)
Extraversion - energetic/ sensation seeking ((high) activity, (low) behavioral inhibition)
Agreeableness - thoughtful/cooperative (people pleaser)
Neuroticism - insecure (constant worriness) (negative emotionality)
Academic achievement:
- Conscientiousness (academics), agreeableness (GPA), and openness (SAT)
Social competence:
- Conscientiousness + agreeableness = fewer beahvior problems
1) Authoritarian: high demandingness/ low responsiveness
- low warmth, rigid rules, harsh discipline
(potentially protective)
2) Authoritative: high demandingness/ high responsiveness
- best outcome for normal environment kids
- warm, responsive involvement
- clear standards, open communication
3) Permissive-indifferent: low demandingness/ low responsiveness
- WORST outcome for kids
- emotionally detached
4) Permissive-indulgent: low demandingness/ high responsiveness
- warm and responsive
- few demands, rules, or expectations
(Laid back)
0-2: Needed guided self-regulation, often fussy
- Infants: basic coping strategies (sucking, appearing to sleep)
- Toddlers: dissemble a bit (tears withheld), decreased fear responses
- Anger, fussiness, irritability increase steadily to "terrible 2"
3-5: General negativity levels off or decreases (2-5), tantrums disappear
- Choose ineffective strategies more often than older children
6-12:
- Use little social support for dealing with emotions
- More coping strategies
- Better at selecting from strategies
, - Rely on emotion-focused strategy
Adolescents: Use more diverse strategies for managing emotions
- Reframing problems, self-talk, considering consequences of responses (develops with
cognitive abilities)
- Teens may also use alcohol, drugs, and food to cope
Before 9 months: Infants respond to direct stimulation, but don't really attempt to share
with others.
After 9 months: Children start to understand a referential triangle
(Important because the child develops their ability to view the world from different
perspectives)
Term 2 of 85
The Strange Situation Procedure is primarily a measure of:
power assertive discipline and negative outcomes are associated with this (depression,
antisocial behavior)
different personality types (behavior)
Sadness
Anger
Disgust
Joy/happiness
Interest
Fear
Antisocial/ aggressive outcomes
, Term 3 of 85
What is the triarchic theory?
Referential triangle involving the adult, the child, and the object or event to which they
share attention.
- pointing
- gaze following
- social referencing (visual cliff)
- imitative learning (Bandura)
Infants: stranger wariness (8-9 months)
Toddlers: separation distress, social referencing (1-2 years)
Middle Childhood: greater tolerance of separation, importance of attachment figure's
availability
Adolescence: increased autonomy, parents still primary attachment figure
General class of traits related to everything from activity level and mood to self-
regulatory abilities such as shifting attention and managing emotions. Difference in the
intensity and patterns of emotions and arousal
Sternberg's theory that uses three types of intelligence in order to explain success, but
doesn't tell us how kids will do in school.
1) Analytic - defining and solving problems (math equations)
2) Practical - real world experiences
3) Creative - generating ideas
Term 4 of 85
What are display rules?
Principles for resolving conflicts in a relationship
Norms that govern the appropriate display of emotions in a culture
Guidelines for effective communication in a workplace
Rules for organizing information in a presentation
