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UNIT THREE TEST STUDY GUIDE- PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
Test Date: ___________________________________________
Format: 35 Multiple Choice Questions (double weight) = 70 pts
2 Essay Questions- select one to answer
= 30 pts
100 pt Test
I. Attachment
1. What is attachment, and why is it so important?
2. Describe the strange situation experiment
a.) What are the three forms of attachment that result from the strange
situation?
-Describe each
3. What is the famous monkey experiment?
4. What comparisons may be made between human infant, and monkey
development?
II. Gender Identification & Sex Typing
1. What is Gender Identification? Sex typing?
2. How are gender identification and sex typing different?
3. What are the four main theories of Gender identification and sex typing
a.) Describe each theory in detail
- Sigmund Freud, Social Learning, Cognitive Developmental, Gender
Schema
4. What is Gender Constancy, and when is it acquired?
III. Adolescence
1. What is adolescence?
2. What are the major psychological changes that teens encounter during
adolescence?
3. What is the “generation gap myth” ?
4. Why is adolescent parent conflict a “normal” part of social development?
5. How have standards for sexual behavior changed over the past 30 years?
IV. Erik Eriksons Psychosocial Stages
1. What are the eight stages of social development according to Erikson?
2. What are the major crises and outcomes at each stage?
3. What determines progress “up the ladder” or stagnation at a stage?