APPSY Unit #3 (2024-2025)

A developmental psychologist who is using a visual cliff is most likely studying which of the following?

Two-year-old Jia tells her grandmother that she “sweeped” the floor yesterday. The scenario illustrates that children

For every twenty cell phones that Tom sells, he will get a $50 bonus. What type of reinforcement schedule?

For extinction to occur, which of the following must be true?

Responses extinguish fastest when they are learned through which type of reinforcement schedule?

Preschoolers often have trouble buttoning shirts due to less-developed

Which kind of learning is involved when a person displays a new behavior after watching someone else perform it?

Learned helplessness is most likely to result when

Dylan has difficulty solving a physics problem in class. The next day, he suddenly thinks of a solution to the problem.

Money most often modifies people’s behavior because it is a powerful

Bc he is afraid of public speaking, Scott withdraws from a class that requires an oral presentation and anxiety drops.

According to Piaget, what is the earliest stage at which a child is capable of using simple logic?

Gender stereotypes are developed as a result of

Ben often misbehaves until his teacher calls his name and scolds him. However, he enjoys this attention. Consequence?

Maria helps her mother wash the dishes, while her brother helps their father with the yard work. This illustrates

A child whose family owns a dog may refer to any 4-legged animal as “dog.” In learning theory, such behavior is known as

In developmental psych, 1 advantage of doing cross-sectional studies over longitudinal methods is that cross sectional

Samantha thinks her teddy bear cries when it is left alone. According to Jean Piaget’s theory, what stage is she in?

Genie was a girl who endured abusive and neglectful conditions and was deprived of language exposure. This study demos

In which of the following types of research are the same children tested at different points in their development?

Which of the following statements is best supported by research on human intelligence?

11-month-old Jay drops a toy from his crib. He looks over the side of the crib to search for it. Jay’s behavior shows

In experiments in classical conditioning, the dog's salivation to food and a tone was considered which of the following?

Children who are consistently praised for receiving high grades in school will likely continue to work for high grades.

Larry wants to be more open to new experiences. According to a behaviorist, how could he teach himself to be more open?

The component of intelligence involving the ability to understand logical relationships and learn quickly is related to

Lorenz found that shortly after a gosling is born, it follows the 1st large moving object it sees. That is an example of

A radio show offers a prize to the first person to call the show at the beginning of every hour. What reinforcement?

Dean creates a detailed mental image of the spatial layout of the biology lab. The mental image is called

In the Strange Situation, infants who were classified as securely attached were likely to do which of the following?

The fact that most infants sit before they stand and stand before they walk is most indicative of

Which of the following statements is true of insight problem solving?

Parenting style that, among children raised in the US, is most closely associated with the development of self-reliance