AP Psych Ch 9 Myers review

Which is the correct sequencing of the stages in Piaget's cognitive development theory?

(Erikson) By middle-age: Discovering sense of contributing to the world or lack of purpose.

A child's ability to infer things about what others are thinking and feeling:

(Erikson) Last stage: Late adulthood, reflecting on life, feeling satisfaction or failure.

Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.

Embryo:

Do our early personality traits persist through life,or do we become different people with age?

In Piaget's cognitive development theory, the preoperational child's difficulty in empathizing.

Agents that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm.

Understanding that things still exist even when you can't perceive them.

(Erikson) Preschoolers learn to initiate tasks & carry out plans or feel guilty about efforts.

Optimal period when certain events must take place to facilitate proper development.

Researched social development:

Culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, retirement.

According to Erikson, sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy.

(Erikson) Elementary school-puberty: Learn pleasure of applying self to tasks or feel inferior.

What is Piaget's "object permanence"?

Mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering & communicating.

Is development a gradual/continuous process or does it proceed in steps/stages?

Developmental psych research focuses on all of the following big questions except:

Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior.

U of WI psychologists who conducted monkey attachment studies ("wire mother").

Fertilized egg:

Zygote stage:

According to Piaget, what is involved in the formal operational stage of development?

(Erikson) Teenagers work at refining sense of self by testing roles.

Parents who are very strict- "my way or the highway"

Researched cognitive development:

(Erikson) Early adulthood: Forming close, intimate relationships or feeling socially isolated.

Kohlberg's moral stage, by early adolescence, caring for others & obeying rules.

Kohlberg's moral devel stage before age 9, obeying rules to avoid punishment or receive reward.

Parents who have little rules, act like their child's friend

Which is the last stage in Erikson's stages of Pyschosocial Development?

(Erikson) 2nd stage, toddlers learn to do things for themselves or they doubt their abilities:

Branch of psych that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span.

Studied influence of language on cognitive development:

Interpreting new experiences in terms of our existing schemas.

Researched moral development:

Kohlberg's stage by adulthood: Making decisions because they are "right," regardless of rules:

Which developmental psychologist described pre-conventional, conventional, & post-conventional?

Parents who are willing to negotiate, are fair and listen to their kids

Adapting current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information.

Fetus:

Concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.