History of Psychology, 3e | Student Quiz 13

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Question 1:

Developmental psychology represents not only a(n) ________ area of inquiry in psychology, but also a particular ________ to the understanding of psychological phenomena.
a) approach; specific
b) specific; approach
c) general; knowledge
d) general; approach

Question 2:

Which of the following ideas is a recurring theme in developmental theory?
a) Accommodation
b) Assimilation
c) Recapitulation
d) Reversibility

Question 3:

Who was awarded the first American Ph.D. in psychology?
a) Hall
b) Baldwin
c) Erikson
d) Piaget

Question 4:

Who has been called one of the most ‘colourful’ figures in Canadian psychology?
a) Baldwin
b) Bott
c) Hall
d) Blatz

Question 5:

According to Baldwin’s theory, development occurs through a series of interactions between ________ and ________.
a) adult; environment
b) child; biology
c) adult; biology
d) child; environment

Question 6:

Who, among the following, was originally interested in art?
a) Werner
b) Hall
c) Baldwin
d) Blatz

Question 7:

The fact that children use varied methods to arrive at a solution demonstrates that the processes underlying development are ________.
a) singular
b) uniform
c) multiform
d) emergent

Question 8:

What term represents the idea that individuals develop in idiosyncratic ways?
a) unilinearity
b) multilinearity
c) orthogenetisis
d) fixity

Question 9:

Who pioneered the use of an experimental technique to investigate microgenetic processes in perception?
a) Vygotsky
b) Baldwin
c) Werner
d) Gibson

Question 10:

What did Piaget call his approach?
a) Epigenesis
b) Structuralism
c) The child study movement
d) Genetic epistemology

Question 11:

At which Piagetian stage do children become aware of permanent objects?
a) The preoperational period
b) The sensorimotor period
c) The sensorimotor period
d) The concrete operational period

Question 12:

Around what age do children begin to be able to carry out formal operations on possible as well as actual events?
a) 5
b) 7
c) In the first two years of life
d) 12

Question 13:

Vygotsky believed that what Piaget called egocentric speech does not actually disappear, but becomes ________.
a) inner speech
b) outer speech
c) external speech
d) centric speech

Question 14:

Erikson was heavily influence by ________ ideas.
a) Vygotsky’s
b) Freud’s
c) Inhelder’s
d) Piaget’s

Question 15:

Who conducted the visual cliff experiment?
a) Gibson
b) Erikson
c) Inhelder
d) Hall

Question 16:

Developmental psychology is the study of children.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Hall’s version of the recapitulation principle was in opposition to the religious sensibilities of his colleagues.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

Hall’s questionnaire approach was taken up by many other students of child development.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Baldwin remained at the University of Toronto for the bulk of his career.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

Imitation is the major way in which accommodation takes place.
a) True
b) False

Question 21:

Werner defined development in terms of the orthogenetic principle.
a) True
b) False

Question 22:

According to Piaget, symbolic play becomes prominent during the sensorimotor period of development.
a) True
b) False

Question 23:

Self-regulation is the key property of Piaget’s structures.
a) True
b) False

Question 24:

Vygotsky elaborated on Piaget’s concept of egocentric speech.
a) True
b) False

Question 25:

Erikson described 12 stages of development.
a) True
b) False

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History of Psychology, 3e - Quiz: Chapter 13