Cognitive Development
Social/Emotional Development & Life-span approach
Emotions
Stress & health
100
Baby Aaron is playing with his favorite rattle. His mom places a blanket over the rattle, and Baby Aaron starts looking for something else to play with. Aaron most likely has not developed ________ yet.
What is object permanence?
100
Harlow’s Monkeys, when reared with a surrogate mother, spent significantly more time with which mother?
Who is the cloth mother?
100
The idea that our emotions are influenced partly by the position of certain facial muscles.
What is the facial feedback hypothesis?
100
The term for the cumulative wear and tear on the body caused by stress.
What is allostatic load?
200
Ron is talking to his grandma on the phone, and holds a picture up to the receiver to “show” it to her. Because he sees it, he thinks Grandma can too. What concept does this illustrate?
What is egocentrism?
200
Jeremy comes home after his curfew, and his parents are upset with him. They sit him down and discuss with him the importance of being responsible and getting home on the time they have agreed on, and then all agree that he will do extra work around the house next day to show his parents that he is sorry for worrying them. According to Baumrind, Jeremy’s parents are using this type of parenting style:
What is authoritative?
200
This is the type of disgust that involves responses to death, corpses, and amputations.
What is animal-reminder?
200
The phase in the general adaptation syndrome where the body is trying to return to equilibrium.
What is resistance?
300
Charlotte, a 3-year-old, asks her mom to cut a pizza into 12 rather than 8 pieces because she is “really hungry.” On the basis of this example, it is most appropriate to conclude that Charlotte does not understand ________.
What is conservation?
300
According to Erikson, if an elementary school child fails to succeed in developing a sense of competence and ability to work with others, the result may be the development of a sense of _________.
What is inferiority?
300
Sam is a big football fan, and loves watching the Super Bowl. She thinks that if the Patriots lose, then she is going to be devastated, but when they do lose, she finds that she is just disappointed. This incorrect prediction is an example of__________________.
What is impact bias?
300
Tanya is deciding whether or not to get a puppy. On one hand, she loves dogs, and the thought of coming home to a puppy makes her very happy. On the other hand, she doesn’t want to have to worry about adjusting her lifestyle to train and care for an animal. The anxiety she’s feeling is due to this type of conflict.
What is approach-avoidance conflict?
400
I showed 7-year-old Sally 2 short glasses with the same amount of water in them. Then, I poured the water from one cup into a taller cup. If Sally is able to correctly tell me that the tall cup still has the same amount of water as the short cup, then she is likely to be in the __________________ stage according to Piaget.
What is concrete operational?
400
Baby Jay is happily playing in the sandbox while his mother is watching. She gets up to pick some vegetables in the garden, and Jay starts crying when she leaves. After picking some peas, the mother comes back, and Jay crawls over to her, but then does not want to be picked up and is not easily comforted. When his mom tries to pick him up, he pushes her away and continues to cry, but does not leave her side. Jay probably has which attachment style?
What is ambivalent/resistant?
400
A bear starts chasing Jim through the woods. Right as he starts sweating and breathing faster, he feels afraid. This sequence reflects which theory of emotion?
What is Cannon-Bard?
400
Give examples of both chronic and acute stressors.
Chronic—something long term; Acute—something short term
500
__________ is the process of taking in new information into our previously existing schema; ___________ is changing or altering our existing schemas in light of new information.
What are assimilation, accommodation?
500
In Erikson’s __________stage of psychosocial development, preschoolers attempt to develop a sense of purpose and direction through becoming more exploratory and assertive.
What is initiative vs. guilt?
500
Name the six basic emotions (most widely agreed upon).
What are Anger, Sadness, Happiness, Fear, Surprise, Disgust?
500
Name one problem-focused and one emotion-focused method of coping with stress.
Problem focused (Active coping; Planning; Instrumental social support; Suppression of competing activities) Emotion focused (emotional social support, venting, positive reinterpretation, behavioral disengagement, mental disengagement)
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