Psychology 300
Fall 2009
Test 3 Review
Chapters 4 and 15
Professor Sylvia Spencer
1. Understand Maturation is to Education as Nature is to Nurture.
2. Difference between Nature and Nurture
3. What are some things that week old babies tend to do…
4. The major developmental milestones in Infant motor development are typically
5. Individual differences in what children comprehend during the:
a. Piaget’s Sensory Motor Stage
b. Attachment
c. Secure Attachment
d. Insecure Attachment
e. Theory of Mind
6. Know and understand
a. Inadequate schema
b. Stranger Anxiety
c. Schemas
d. Erik Erickson’s stage including adolescence.
7. Harlow and his experiment with monkeys raised in isolation
8. Who was Kohlberg and understand his theory.
a. Pre-conventional
b. Morality
c. Describe his level of Post Conventional Morality
9. Simon Baron-Cohen and his theory on Autism
10. Effects on brain chemistry in golden hamsters when repeated and attacked when
young
11. Know the differences between primary and secondary sex characteristics in
adolescent male and Female.
12. Identify the difference between Cross Sectional and Longitudinal studies
13. Some physical abilities in:
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a. Early Adulthood
14. When testing various ages and older adults on memory, recall, and recognition,
what were the positive performance findings compared with some other ages.
15. On what tasks would a 20 year old likely out perform a 70 year old?
16. Look at Abstract Reasoning and middle adulthood in psychological testing
17. Stability or change regarding anxious children and the type of adults they may
become
18. What is considered Fluid Intelligence?
19. Alfred Adler theory on outcomes of personalities of children
20. Have a working knowledge of Freud’s:
a. Oedipus Complex
b. Reaction Formation
c. Projection
d. Displacement
21. Know and understand the following concepts:
a. Self-serving Bias
b. Reciprocal Determinism
c. External Locus of Control
d. Internal Locus of Control
e. Unconditional Positive Regard
f. Possible Selves
g. Unconscious Thought
22. What would Neo Freudian personality theorists most likely disagree with Freud
about the importance of?
23. Standardized Psychological tests – what Psychology theorists would most
criticize them and why?
24. Major reason for the unreliability of the Rorschach test
25. What major theory is Ban Dura noted for?
26. Compare Frontal lobe area involved with behavior inhibitions between Introverts
and Extroverts
27. What lead Freud to become interested in unconscious personality dynamics?
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28. Accepting and trying to understand the feelings of children and should honestly
disclosing the parents own inner feelings to their children reflects which major
Psychologist’s perspective?
29. What is Learned Helplessness?
30. The Humanistic Perspective’s pioneer
31. What Carl Rogers suggested to be a central feature of personality
32. The Myers Briggs type indicator classification personality types identified by…
33. Read about a person who experiences Defensive Self-esteem
34. According to Walter Mischel what is his view on consistency of personality traits
that…
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