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Example Question #761 : Ap Psychology
Jessica's parents are very responsive and caring. They set expectations and boundaries for Jessica, but they also request her input and explain their reasons when making specific decisions or rules. Jessica feels supported by her parents, and she knows that they will still love her even when she makes mistakes. According to Baumrind, which style of parenting and child-rearing describes Jessica's parents?
Authoritarian child-rearing style
Uninvolved child-rearing style
Authoritative child-rearing style
Permissive child-rearing style
Authoritative child-rearing style
Authoritative child-rearing and parenting entails high acceptance and involvement with reasonable control/demands and autonomy of children. The scenario described in this question best corresponds to this style of parenting.
Authoritarian child-rearing and parenting emphasizes strict rules and control, with little acceptance and autonomy of children.
Permissive child-rearing and parenting entails high acceptance of children, but parents tend to act more as "friends" with their children by not setting clear expectations, granting too much autonomy, and spoiling children.
Uninvolved child-rearing and parenting often conveys disinterest or emotional detachment from children. Beyond providing for children's basic needs (e.g., food, clothes, shelter), parents tend to not be actively involved or emotionally available for children.
Example Question #5 : Theories Of Psychological Development
According to Bandura's Social Learning Theory, individuals learn how to behave through which two mechanisms?
Modeling and reinforcement
Unconscious conflicts and resolutions
Self-directed initiation and exploration
Emotionality and attachment
Modeling and reinforcement
Social Learning Theory stems from behaviorism and operant conditioning, and it emphasizes imitation, modeling, and reinforcement to encourage appropriate behavior.
Unconscious conflicts and resolutions are linked more to psychoanalytic theory, whereas self-directed behavior is associated more with Piagetian ideals of actively exploring one's world to facilitate learning.
Emotionality and attachment are related more to social-emotional development than cogntiive development and learned behavior.
Example Question #3 : Theories Of Psychological Development
During which of Freud's psychosexual stages does the Oedipus Complex occur?
Oral
Adulthood
Puberty
Phallic
Anal
Phallic
During the phallic stage (ages 3 to 5), Freud believed that young boys desire their mother - but because the boys cannot have their mother, they identify with their father and take on a male gender role.
Example Question #6 : Theories Of Psychological Development
According to Baumrind's work on parenting styles, children who develop anger and trust issues towards their parents are most likely to have been raised in which sort of household?
Authoritative or Authoritarian
Authoritarian
Authoritative or Permissive
Authoritative
Permissive
Authoritarian
Authoritarian parents prioritize the obedience of their children, and are more likely to punish bad behavior than to reward good behavior. This tends to more often produce anger, distrust, and withdrawal in children raised in Authoritarian households than in children raised in Authoritative or Permissive homes.
Example Question #4 : Theories Of Psychological Development
How did Erik Eriksen's proposed stages of human development differ from those earlier put forth by Sigmund Freud?
Eriksen's stages of development continue beyond puberty through the entirety of adulthood
All of these
Eriksen accounted for social influences
None of these
Eriksen's theory diminished the importance of sexual and aggressive drives
All of these
Freud's stages of human development focus heavily on sex and aggression, and largely do not account for social influences beyond relationships with one's parents, and after puberty. Eriksen found all of these features of Freud's theory problematic.
Example Question #21 : Studying Developmental Psychology
Mary Ainsworth developed the "Strange Situation" experiment to examine _________
Mothers' parenting styles
Mothers' attachment to their infants
Infants' sensory perception
Infants' linguistic capabilities
Infants' attachment to their mothers
Infants' attachment to their mothers
The "Strange Situation" experiment began by placing a mother alone in a room with her child. After some time, a stranger enters the room, and the mother leaves the room shortly after the stranger's entrance. A short time later, the mother returns and the stranger leaves. Following this, the mother again leaves the room and returns after a brief period in which the child is alone in the room.
The purpose of this study was to examine the infant's behavior when "abandoned" by his/her mother, and his/her reaction when the mother returned to the room. The children were then classified into three kinds of attachment to their mothers.
Example Question #21 : Developmental Psychology
In his theory of cognitive development, Jean Piaget used the term "schemata" to refer to which of the following?
Cognitive maps children form during the concrete operational stage
The inability to form solid logical reasoning in early childhood
The rare phenomena of a child in the preoperational stage possessing concrete logical capability
Mental rules or frameworks used to organize and interpret the surrounding world
A full understanding of the world attained only in the final stage of development
Mental rules or frameworks used to organize and interpret the surrounding world
Jean Piaget's term schemata refers to cognitive rules/frameworks/blueprints ("schematics") with which humans interpret the world around them. As humans develop through childhood, their schemata are challenged and change to assimilate new knowledge and logic.
Example Question #11 : Theories Of Psychological Development
As an alternative to Jean Piaget's theory of 4 stages of cognitive development, the Information-Processing Theory proposes that __________.
it is impossible to have a universal theory of cognitive development because of the subjective nature of how humans process information
there are six distinct stages of cognitive development rather than only four
human mental capacities to memorize, interpret, and perceive develop gradually rather than in stages
None of these answers
higher cognitive processes such as logical thinking and abstract reasoning are instinctual rather learned
human mental capacities to memorize, interpret, and perceive develop gradually rather than in stages
In contrast to Jean Piaget's 4 stages, the Information-Processing Model suggests continuous, gradual development, the rate of which depends on the individual and the information presented to them. This model also tends to draw illustrative examples of human cognition and information processing from the way computers process information.
Example Question #11 : Theories Of Psychological Development
Which of the following is not one of Erik Erikson's 8 stages of psychosocial development?
Nature vs. Nurture
Intimacy vs. Isolation
Generativity vs. Stagnation
Industry vs. Inferiority
Trust vs. Mistrust
Nature vs. Nurture
Nature vs. nurture refers to the debate over which of the two aspects has greater influence on human behavior. Erik Erikson developed a psychosocial theory which proposed 8 stages throughout life: trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame, initiative vs. guilt, industry vs. inferiority, identity vs. role confusion, intimacy vs. isolation, generativity vs. stagnation, and lastly integrity vs. despair.
Example Question #25 : Developmental Psychology
Who did NOT come up with a theory of development that involved stages?
Freud
Skinner
Kohlberg
Erik Erikson
Piaget
Skinner
Freud, Erik Erikson, Piaget, and Kohlberg all developed theories of development that involved stages, whereas Skinner focused on classical conditioning.
Freud came up with the psychosexual stages of development: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. Erik Erikson came up with eight stages of social development (ex: trust vs. mistrust). Piaget came up with the stages of cognitive development: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. Kohlberg came up with the stages of moral development: preconventional, conventional, and postconventional.
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