Psychology terms

Which of the following is a message that might be sent by the id?

"I'm hungry and I've got to eat a whole 12-inch sub sandwich right now!"

Ian is 12 months old and is crying for attention. His mom is busy cooking dinner and can't pay much attention to him. When she finishes cooking, she picks Ian up and offers him his favorite toy. Ian hugs his mother but keeps crying and pushes the toy away. This suggests that Ian has formed a(n) ______ attachment with his mom.

Ambivalent

Humanistic approaches

Both a and b

Pedro told his father that he wants to quit school and try his hand at acting. His father tells him that he will be very disappointed in Pedro if he does not reconsider his decision. Pedro's father may have just created

Condition of worth

Josh thinks he has less juice than his brother. His mother tries to solve the problem by pouring Josh's juice into a tall, skinny glass. Josh stares at the tall, skinny glass and his original short, fat glass and then complains that he still has less juice than his brother. Which developmental concept is being illustrated: assimilation, accommodation, conservation, object permanence, egocentrism, or theory of mind? Explain your answer.

Conservation because you need the law of conservation for her to know how to measure and know which one has more.

According to the text, what is the most important prenatal phase of development for organ formation?

Embryonic

Which of the following is NOT a psychosexual stage of development?

Erogenous

Which of the following is an example of Piaget's concept of assimilation?

Fourteen-month-old Noreen's first word was "ball." Now she calls anything round that rolls a "ball."

Nolan, Curt, and Frank go into their favorite bar but the bartender, Bill, is nowhere to be seen. Nolan says, "I'm thirsty, and I want a drink right now!" Curt looks around and adds, "I think it'll be okay if we serve ourselves and pay when Bill comes back." "Stop right there!" commands Frank, "it is against the rules to take the beer!" Whose statement is most consistent with Freud's notion of the superego?

Frank's

Which of the following is the correct order of prenatal development?

Germinal stage, embryonic stage, fetal stage.

Which of the following traits is NOT part of the five-factor theory of personality?

Introversion

The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) is an example of a(n) ________ measure of personality.

Projective

A divorced man is asked about his wedding day with his ex-wife who later deserted him. He replies, "I don't remember much about it; I think it rained." His inability to recall details of that day suggests that he applies the Freudian defense mechanism of

Repression

Jamie is developing a new test to assess individuals' personalities. She asks people to draw a picture of their families, then interprets the drawing based on her opinion of what they reflect about the individual's personality. Jamie's test is a(n) _______ of personality.

Rorschach test

Meika explores her environment by crawling to a new toy and putting it in her mouth. Which stage of Piaget's cognitive development model is she demonstrating?

Sensorimotor

Jonathan often fantasizes about having sex, and he would prefer to have sex as often as he could. However, he knows that rather than have sex all the time, he must go to classes, do his homework, and study for exams so that he can get a good job later on. According to Freud, Jonathan's _____ is regulating his sexual desires.Superegos conscience

Superegos conscience

Which of the following statements is true of the hearing capability of newborns?

They can hear well when they are born

Silas thinks that a personality is made up of characteristics that can be described on a dimension from low to high. Silas most likely agrees with the ________ approach to personality. Trait

Trait

Peipei's mother brings her 2-year-old daughter to see a new doctor. Peipei's mother leaves the room and Peipei is momentarily left alone with the doctor. When Peipei's mother returns and hugs Peipei, Peipei looks at her mother and smiles, but at the same time she yells and pushes her mother away. Peipei has most likely formed a(n) __________ attachment with her mother.

ambivalent

For Bill's new job with a toy company, he makes a board game called "Planet Wars." The goal is to conquer as many planets as possible by forming strategies for attack and defense and logically anticipating other players' moves. This game is most likely appropriate for children in the ______ stage of cognitive development.

formal operational

Bianca smokes a pack of cigarettes a day and just found out that she is pregnant. The doctor said, "If you quit smoking right now your baby will probably not be affected by the nicotine. This is because your child is in the stage of prenatal development during which teratogens do not have an effect." Based on this, Bianca knows that her child is most likely in the ______ period of prenatal development.

germinal

You want to buy a mobile for your newborn nephew, Jasper, who is one week old. You want him to be able to see the objects on the mobile when it hangs over his crib a few feet from him. To achieve this, you should most likely buy Jasper a mobile with ______.

large black-and-white drawings of faces

One-year-old Jerome is in the __________ stage of cognitive development. Thus, when his mother shows Jerome a ball and then hides it behind her back, we would expect him to __________.

sensorimotor; appear to lose interest in the ball and not look for it

Ana takes an online personality test. The results say that she scores high on the extraversion dimension of personality and low on the conscientiousness dimension of personality. Ana most likely took a personality test that was based on

the five factor theory