Exam 3 – Test Review Chapters 9 and 10 Visualizing Psychology
Chapter 9
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Define developmental psychology
Define maturation
Define critical period
Describe nature-nature debate
Current view most psychologist take
regarding human development
Describe the pattern of cognitive and
physical development
Define longitudinal study
Define cross- sectional study
What is the most important characteristic
to know about a child in order to predict
future behavior?
Describe the germinal period of
development
Describe the embryonic period
Describe the time period of the fetal period
Describe the effects of nicotine on fetal
development
Describe the effects of alcohol on fetal
development
Describe the myelination of the brain
Identify the first motor movements of
newborns
Identify the least developed sensory skill
at birth
Identify the most developed sensory skill
at birth
Define puberty
Describe secondary sex characteristics
Describe how older people (50-60) are
viewed by some employers
What is the most important factor in
maintaining mental and physical health?
Describe secondary aging
Describe primary aging
What is the maximum lifespan of humans?
Define the Hayflick limit
Describe the programmed theory of aging
Who was Piaget?
Define schemas
Define assimilation
Define accommodation
Identify the correct order of Piaget’s
theory of cognitive development
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Define object permanence
Describe egocentrism
Define animistic thinking
Describe concrete operational thinking
Define conservation
Define reversibility
Describe the formal operational style of
thinking
Describe adolescent thinking
Define personal fable
Define imaginary audience
How does personal fable and imaginary
audience develop?
Identify how Piaget’s theory has been
criticized
Describe the physical changes associated
with the development in late adulthood
Define synaptic pruning
Define teratogens
Describe the abilities of Piaget’s
sensorimotor stage
Describe the abilities of the preoperational
stage
Exam 3 – Test Review Chapters 9 and 10 Visualizing Psychology
Chapter 10
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Define attachment
Define imprinting
Describe contact comfort
Describe avoidant attachment
Describe anxious ambivalent attachment
Describe securely attachment
Describe infant-attachment and adult
relationship studies
Define morality
Kohlberg’s theory- details
Erikson’s theory- details
Define sex
Define gender
Define gender role
Identify the factors linked to aggressive
behavior
Describe the social learning theory and
how children learn gender roles
Define androgyny
Identify the most androgynous ethnic
group in the United States
Percentage of all marriages in the United
States that end in divorce
Identify a key factor in successful
marriages
Describe individualistic and collectivist
cultures
Define personality-job fit
Define activity theory of aging
Define disengagement theory of aging
Define socioemotional selectivity
Describe negative beliefs held toward the
elderly
Identify a key ingredient to a fulfilling old
age
Describe parent’s reaction when their
grown children leave home
Describe a child’s understanding of death
Identify the correct sequence for KublerRoss’s stages of theory of dying
Describe anger in the theory of dying
Describe denial in the theory of dying
Describe some critics of Kubler-Ross’s
theory
Define thanatology