PSYCH 2000 EXAM #3 LSU QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS LATEST 2025-2026 UPDATE
Animism - Answer-Everything that moves is alive. (Preoperational)
Ego-centrism - Answer-Inability to see the world through any one else s
point of view. (Preoperational)
Centration - Answer-Focusing on only one feature of an object
(Preoperational).
Conservation - Answer-Ability to understand that altering the
appearance of something does not change its amount (Preoperational).
Irreversibility - Answer-The idea of mentally reversing actions
(Preoperational).
Stage 3: Concrete - Answer-From age 7 - 12. In this stage conservation
and reversible thinking are now doable. We can also focus on more then
one feature of an object at a time. We can think logically.
Stage 4: Formal - Answer-From age 12 - adulthood. We are now
capable of abstract thinking, critical thinking, and problem solving. One
, key is that not all people will develop each of these skills associated with
this stage.
Criticism of Piaget's Theories - Answer-Development is continuous and
doesn't have clear hierarchies like his theory. Children express their
mental abilities at a variation ages. He stressed the importance of
children's' interactions with objects, not with humans.
Nature - Answer-Refers to heredity, the influence of inherited
characteristics on our personality, physique, intellect, and social
prowess.
Nurture - Answer-Refers to the influence of the our environment on
what we grow up to be like. This is how our parents influence us.
Nature v Nurture - Answer-Debate that discusses how our personality,
behavior, intellect, etc come to exist. Does it come from our DNA or
does it come from how we are raised? Turns out that its a mixture of
both!
Mono-zygotic (Identical) - Answer-This is the term used to describe
twins that come from a single egg. A single egg is impregnated and
splits forming two babies. Each baby will be the same sex and have the
same physical features.
Di-zygotic (Fraternal) - Answer-This is the term used that describes the
phenomena that occurs when two eggs are fertilized at the same time.
ANSWERS LATEST 2025-2026 UPDATE
Animism - Answer-Everything that moves is alive. (Preoperational)
Ego-centrism - Answer-Inability to see the world through any one else s
point of view. (Preoperational)
Centration - Answer-Focusing on only one feature of an object
(Preoperational).
Conservation - Answer-Ability to understand that altering the
appearance of something does not change its amount (Preoperational).
Irreversibility - Answer-The idea of mentally reversing actions
(Preoperational).
Stage 3: Concrete - Answer-From age 7 - 12. In this stage conservation
and reversible thinking are now doable. We can also focus on more then
one feature of an object at a time. We can think logically.
Stage 4: Formal - Answer-From age 12 - adulthood. We are now
capable of abstract thinking, critical thinking, and problem solving. One
, key is that not all people will develop each of these skills associated with
this stage.
Criticism of Piaget's Theories - Answer-Development is continuous and
doesn't have clear hierarchies like his theory. Children express their
mental abilities at a variation ages. He stressed the importance of
children's' interactions with objects, not with humans.
Nature - Answer-Refers to heredity, the influence of inherited
characteristics on our personality, physique, intellect, and social
prowess.
Nurture - Answer-Refers to the influence of the our environment on
what we grow up to be like. This is how our parents influence us.
Nature v Nurture - Answer-Debate that discusses how our personality,
behavior, intellect, etc come to exist. Does it come from our DNA or
does it come from how we are raised? Turns out that its a mixture of
both!
Mono-zygotic (Identical) - Answer-This is the term used to describe
twins that come from a single egg. A single egg is impregnated and
splits forming two babies. Each baby will be the same sex and have the
same physical features.
Di-zygotic (Fraternal) - Answer-This is the term used that describes the
phenomena that occurs when two eggs are fertilized at the same time.
