Developmental theory

Developmental theory

Revision questions for debates, methodology and the history of developmental psychology

published on May 03, 2012
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In the Medieval era, children were protected and the law was lenient on them. True or false?

True
False
2/13

Jean-jaques Rousseau believed in...

Nature and genetics
Innate goodness
Imprinting
3/13

What was Skinner's behaviourism centred around?

Operant conditioning
Classical conditioning
Social conditioning
4/13

What was the main Puritan belief of the Reformation era?

Children were not just 'mini-adults'
Original sin - children were born
evil
Human evolution was similar to child
development
5/13

Tabula Rasa means...

Original sin
Child care
Blank slate
6/13

'As an infant we think in the same ways as adults, but develop in complexity over time' - this is an example of...

Discontinuous development
Continuous development
Normative development
Stability
7/13

Select all the options where the era is next to the correct date:

Hint: 4 choices
Reformation - 6th Century
Ethological - 16th Century
Medieval - 6th-15th Century
Reformation - 17th and 18th Century
Enlightenment - 17th and 18th Century
Theory of evolution - 20th Century
Ethological - 20th Century
Theory of evolution - 19th Century
8/13

Which of these is the correct order of Freud's psycho-sexual stages?

Phallic, Oral, Anal, Genital, Latency
Genital, Oral, Phallic, Anal, Latency
Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital
9/13

Bandura's social learning theory argued we learn from interactions with the environment and through observation. True or false?

True
False
10/13

What is the main weakness of correlational research?

It cannot establish a cause and
effect relationship
It can suffer from experimenter bias
It requires huge amounts of time and
money
11/13

What does the micro-genetic method involve?

A combination of cross-sectional and
longitudinal methods
Testing an individual for a specific
gene defect
Using repeated testing to examine how
a specific ability develops over time
12/13

Observing the behaviours of children in their own environment is an example of...

Structured observation
A self-report technique
Cross-sequential research
Naturalistic observation
13/13

What was Watson's behaviourism was centred around?

Operant conditioning
Classical conditioning
Social conditioning