Question: Who called his field “genetic epistemology,” stressing the role of biological determinism?

Answer Options:
John Locke, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Arnold Gesell

Answer: Jean Piaget

 

Question: Spirit, a dolphin at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, does a flip in the air when her trainer blows a whistle. The consequence is that she gets a fish. What type of conditioning is this?

Answer Options:
Classical, Behavioral, Logistical, Operant

Answer: Operant

 

Question: Bandura theorizes that the observational learning process consists of four parts. Which of the following is not one of them:

Answer Options:
Attention, Retention, Creation, Motivation

Answer: Creation

 

Question: Symbolic thinking, use of proper syntax and grammar to express concepts. According to Piaget, this occurs during the ages between 2 to 7 years old.

Answer Options:
True, False

Answer: True

 

Question: Human beings develop an ideal self and a real self, based on the conditional status of positive regard. How closely one’s real self matches up with their ideal self is called congruence.

Answer Options:
True, False

Answer: True

 

Question: Who was an influential humanistic psychologist who developed a personality theory that emphasized the importance of the self-actualizing tendency in shaping human personalities.

Answer Options:
Carl Jung, Carl Rogers, Sigmund Freud, Abraham Maslow

Answer: Carl Rogers

 

Question: Who believed that social interaction plays a critical role in children’s learning. That through such social interactions, children go through a continuous process of scaffolded learning?

Answer Options:
Urie Bronfenbrenner, Lev Vygotsky, Sigmund Freud, Abraham Maslow

Answer: Lev Vygotsky

 

Question: Evolutionary psychology has its historical roots in Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection.

Answer Options:
True, False

Answer: True

 

Question: Each sperm and egg possesses

Answer Options:
12, 23, 46, 92

Answer: 23

 

Question: By the time an infant is one year has — the birth weight.

Answer Options:
tripled, quadrupled, doubled, quintupled

Answer: tripled