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Freud's stages of development are

Psychosexual

Erik Erikson stages of development are

Psychosocial

Psychoanalyst who created a developmental theory that encompasses the entire life span

Erik Erikson

"The ego is dependent on the id" would most likely reflect the work of

Sigmund Freud

Who stresses a concept known as dualistic thinking common to teens in which things are conceptualized as good/bad or right/wrong

William Perry

Dualistic Thinking

common to teens in which things are conceptualized as good/bad or right/wrong. Also known as black/white thinking with no ambiguity

Relativistic Thinking

As an adolescent enters adulthood they have the ability to perceive that not everything is right or wrong, but an answer can exist relative to a specific situation. There is more than one way to view the world

Freudian stages

Oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. Emphasize sexuality

Erik Erikson's 8 stages

Trust versus mistrust, integrity versus despair,...

Psychometric

Mental testing or measurement

Psychodiagnostic

The study of personality through interpretation of behavior or non-verbal cues. The counselor can use these factors to test or label the client in a diagnostic category

Psychopharmacology

Studies the effects that drugs have on psychological functions

Id

The seat of sex and aggression. The Id is chaotic and only concerned with the body and not with the outside world. Also called the pleasure principal. Houses animalistic instints

Ego

Logical, rational, and utilizes the power of reasoning and control to keep impulses in check. The reality principal

Superego

Moralistic and idealistic portion of the personality

Milton H. Erickson

Generally associated with brief Psychotherapy and Innovative techniques in hypnosis

Piaget

The leading name in cognitive development in children

Jay Haley

Known for his work in strategic and problem-solving therapy, often utilizing the technique of paradox. Studied under Milton Erickson

Arnold Lazarus

Considered a Pioneer in the behavior therapy movement, especially in regard to the use of systematic desensitization, a technique which helps clients cope with phobias. He is often associated with multimodal therapy

systematic desensitization

a technique which helps clients cope with phobias.

William Perry

Known for his ideas related to adult cognitive development; especially college students

Robert Kegan

Is well-known figure in the area of adult cognitive development. Kegan's model stresses interpersonal development. Kegan's Theory is based on a constructive model of development, meaning that individuals construct reality throughout the lifespan

Jean Piaget's theory has four stages. The correct order from stage 1 to stage 4 is

Sensorimotor, preoperations, concrete operations, formal operations

Some behavioral scientists have been critical of John Piaget's developmental research because

His findings were often derived from observing his own children

Alfred Binet

Created the first intelligence test

t test

A parametric statistical test used in formal experiments to determine whether there is a significant difference between two groups. The t test is used to ascertain if the means of the groups are significantly different from each other. When using the t-test the groups must be normally distributed. Can also be referred to as the students t

A tall skinny picture of water is emptied into a small squatty picture. A child indicates that she feels the small picture has less water. The child has not yet mastered

Conservation

In Piaget's theory the term conservation refers to

The notion that a substance's weight, mass, and volume remain the same even if the shape changes

According to Piaget, the child masters conservation and the concept of reversibility during

The concrete operational stage is between ages 7 and 11 years old. During this time the child also learns how to count mentally

Symbolic schema

A cognitive structure that grows with life experience

Schema

A system which permits the child to test out things in the physical world

In Piagetian literature, conservation would most likely refer to

Volume or mass

A child masters conservation in the Piagetian stage known as

Concrete operations- ages 7 to 11

Who expanded on Piaget's conceptualization of moral development

Lawrence Kohlberg. He is the leading theorist in moral development

Who disagreed with Piaget's notion that developmental stages takes place naturally

Lev Vygotsky. He instead insisted that the stages on hold due to educational intervention

Kohlberg's, Erikson's, and Maslow's theories are said to be

Epigentic in nature

Epigenetic

A biological term borrowed from embryology. This principal states that each stage emerges from one before it. The process follows a given order and is systematic

John B. Watson

The father of American behaviorism and coined the term behaviorism in 1912

According to Piaget, A child masters the concept of reversibility in the third stage known as concrete operations. This notion suggest

One can undo an action, hence an object can return to its initial shape


During a thunderstorm, a 6 year six-year-old child in Piaget's stage of preoperational thought (stage 2) says "the rain is following me". This is an example of

Egocentrism

Egocentrism

Conveys the fact that the child cannot view the world from the vantage point of someone else

Abstract thoughts

Occurs in Piaget's final or fourth stage known as formal operations

Lawrence Kohlberg's theory suggested

Three levels of morality

Kohlberg's theory has three levels of moral development called

Preconventional, conventional, and post conventional level which is referred to in some text as the personal Integrity or morality of self accepted principles level

In Kohlberg's theory, the reasoning utilize to solve a moral dilemma could be used to assess

Moral development

The term identity crisis comes from the work of

Erikson

Positive psychology

A term coined by Abraham Maslow and popularized by learned helplessness syndrome Pioneer Martin Seligman. Refers to the study of human strengths such as Joy, wisdom, altruism, the ability to love, happiness, and wisdom

Alfred Adler

Founder of individual psychology, which stresses the inferiority complex

In the preconventional level of Kohlberg's theory

The child responds to consequences. In this stage reward and Punishment greatly influence the behavior

In the conventional level of Kohlberg's theory

The individual wants to meet the standards of the family, society, and even the nation

In the final stage of Kohlberg's theory postconventional or self accepted morality

A person is concerned with universal, ethical principles of Justice, dignity, and quality of Human Rights. Kohlberg felt that many people never reach this stage

Trust versus mistrust is

Erik Erikson's first stage of psychosocial development

Harry Stack Sullivan

Postulated the stages of infancy, childhood, the juvenile era, pre-adolescent, early adolescence, and late adolescence

Harry Stack Sullivan's Theory

Is known as the Psychiatry of interpersonal relationships. It states that biological determination is seen as less important than interpersonal issues and the socio-cultural demands of society. Similar to Erikson's theory

A person who has successfully mastered Erikson's first seven stages will be ready to enter Erikson's final or eighth stage

Integrity vs. Despair. This final stage begins at about age 60

In Kohlberg's first for preconventional level, the individual's moral behavior is Guided by

Consequences

Fugue state

Refers to an individual who experiences memory loss (amnesia) and leaves home, often with the intention of changing his or her job and identity

Counter-conditioning

A behavioristic technique in which the goal is to weaken or eliminate a learned response by pairing it with a stronger and desirable response

Kohlberg's second level of morality is known as conventional morality. This level is characterized by

A desire to live up to society's expectation and a desire to conform. Good boy/good girl orientation

Kohlberg's highest level of morality is termed postconventional morality. Here the individual

Has self-imposed morals and ethics

According to Kohlberg's level 3 which is post conventional or self accepted moral principles

Is the highest level of morality. However, some people never reach this level

The zone of proximal development was pioneered by

Lev Vygotsky

The zone of proximal development describes

The difference between a child's performance without a teacher versus but the child is capable of with instruction

Freud and Erikson could be classified as

Maturationist

And Behavioral Science the concept of maturation hypothesis also known as a maturation Theory

Suggest that behavior is guided exclusively via hereditary factors but that certain behaviors will not manifest themselves until the necessary stimuli are present in the environment. The theory also suggests that the individual's neural development must be at this certain level of maturity for the behavior to unfold

John Bowlby's name is most closely associated with

Bonding and attachment

Arnold Gesell was a Pioneer in terms of

Using a one-way mirror for observing children

Bowlby insisted that in order to lead a normal social life the child must

Bond with an adult before the age of 3. If the bond is severed at an early age it is known as object lost and this is said to be the breeding ground for abnormal behavior or what is called psychopathology

Symbiosis

Mahler calls this the child's absolute dependence on the female caretaker

In which Ericksonian stage does a midlife crisis occur

Generativity vs. Stagnation (self-absorption)

The researcher who was well known for his work with maternal deprivation and isolation in rhesus monkeys is

Harry Harlow

The statement males are better than females when performing mathematical calculations is

True according to research by Maccoby and Jacklin ( not significant until high school or perhaps College)

The Ericksonian stage that focuses heavily on sharing your life with another person is

Intimacy versus isolation stage - age 23 to 34

We often refer to individuals asking for missed. Which of these individuals would most likely conform to his or her peers?

A 13 year old male middle School students. Conformity seems to peak in the early teens

In Harry Harlow's experiments with baby monkeys

The baby monkey was more likely to cling to a terry-cloth mother surrogate then a wire surrogate mother

Freud postulated psychosexual stages

Oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital

Freud's structural theory of the Mind is composed of

Id, ego, superego

Eros

The Freudian concept of the life instinct

Thanatos

Freudian concept of the self-destructive death instinct

Regression

Used to describe clients who return to an earlier stage of development

Manifest content

Describes the dream material as it is presented to the dreamer

Latent content

Refers to the hidden meaning of a dream

In adolescents regarding suicide

Males commit suicide more often than females, but females attempt suicide more often

In the general population regarding suicide

Suicide rates tend to increase with age

The fear of death is greatest during

Middle age

In Freudian theory attachment is a major factor that evolves

Primarily evolved during the oral stage

When comparing girls to boys it could be noted that

Girls grow-up to smile more, girls are you using more feeling words by age 2, and girls are better able to read people without verbal cues at any age

The Freudian developmental stage which least emphasizes sexuality is

Latency

In terms of parenting young children in regards to punishment

Boys are punished more than girls

When developmental theorists speak of nature or nurture they really mean

How much hereditary or environment interact to influence development

Stage theorists assume

Qualitative changes between stages occur

Development

Is a continual process which begins at conception

Development is cephalocaudal which means

Head to foot. Cephalocaudal simply refers to bodily proportions between the head and tail

Heredity

Assumes the normal person has 23 pairs of chromosomes. Assumes that heredity characteristics are transmitted by chromosomes. And assumes genes composed of DNA hold a genetic code

Heritability

The portion of a trait that can be explained via genetic factors

Piaget's final stage is known as the formal operations stage. In this stage

Abstract thinking emerges and problems can be solved using deduction

Kohlberg listed __ stages of moral development which fall into __ levels

6, 3


Stage 1- the preconventional level includes punishment / obedience orientation


Stage 2 - naive Hedonism or instrumental egotistic orientation


Stage 3 the conventional level includes good boy / good girl orientation


Stage 4 the authority law level and Order orientation


Stage 5 the postconventional level includes democratically accepted law or social contract


Stage 6 the morality of self accepted principles level includes self conscious and Universal ethics

Freud's Oedipus Complex

Is the state in which fantasies of sexual relations with the opposite sex parent occurs and occurs during the phallic stage

In girls the Oedipus complex may be referred to as

The Electra complex

Covert

Any psychological process which cannot be directly observed

In Vivo

The client is exposed to an actual situation which might prove fruitful or difficult

Desensitization

A behavioral therapy technique that helps to ameliorate anxiety reactions

Gibson research the matter of depth perception and children by utilizing

A visual cliff

Theorist who believe that development merely consists of quantitative changes are referred to as

Empiricist

Empiricism

The philosophy of John Locke develop in the 1600s sometimes referred to associationism. The word empiricism means experience. This philosophy means that experience is the source of acquiring knowledge. Empiricism is the Forerunner of behaviorism

An empiricist view of development would be

Behavioristic

Behavioristic empiricist researchers value

Statistical studies and emphasize the role of the environment

Organismic supporters feel

The individual's actions are more important than the environment in terms of one's development

In the famous experiment by Harlow frightening monkey is raised to be a cloth and wire mothers

Ran over and clung to the cloth and wire surrogate mothers

The theorist who views developmental changes as quantitative is said to be an empiricist. The antithesis of this position holds that the developmental strides are qualitative. What is the name given to this position?

Organicism

In Piaget's development theory reflexes play the greatest role in the

Sensorimotor stage

Hey mother hides a toy behind her back and a young child does not believe that we exist anymore. The child has not mastered

Object permanence and representational thought.

The schema of permanency constancy of objects occur in the

Sensorimotor stage - birth to 2 years

John Bowlby has asserted that

Contact disorders and other forms of Psychopathology can result from inadequate attachment and bonding in early childhood

The Harlow experiments utilizing monkeys demonstrated that animals placed in isolation during the first few months of life

Appear to be abnormal and autistic. Artistic means extremely withdrawn and isolated

According to the freudians if a child is severely traumatized he or she may ____ a given psychosexual stage

Become fixated at

An expert who has reviewed the literature on TV and violence would conclude that

Watching violence tends to make children more aggressive

A counselor who utilizes the term Instinctual technically means

Behavior that manifest itself in all normal members of a given species

The word ethology which is often associated with the work of Konrad Lorenz refers to

The study of animals behavior in their natural environment

Comparative psychology

Refers to laboratory research using animals and attempts to generalize the findings to humans

Konrad Lorenz

Best known for his work on the process of imprinting, an instinctive behavior in goslings and other animals in which the infant instinctively follows the first moving object it encounters, which is usually the mother. Lorenz used himself as a moving object for newborn geese

Critical periods

States that certain behaviors must be learned at an early time in an animal's development otherwise the behavior will never be learned at all

A child who focuses exclusively on a clown's red nose but ignores his or her other features would be illustrating the Piagetian concept of

Centration

Centration

Occurs in the pre-operational stage and is characterized by focusing on a key feature of a given object while not noticing the rest of it

Piaget felt

Teacher should lecture less, as children in concrete operations learn best via their own actions and experimentation

Piaget's pre-operational stage

Includes the acquisition of a symbolic schema

Sigmund Freud and Eric Erickson agreed that

Each developmental stage needs to be resolved before an individual could move on to the next stage

R.J. Havinghurst

Proposed developmental task for - infants and early childhood- birth to 6- learning to walk or eat solid foods


-middle childhood- 6-12- learning to get along with peers or developing a conscience.


- adolescents - 12 - 18 - preparing for marriage and economic career


- early adulthood - 19 - 30 years as select a mate and starting a family


- middle age - 30 - 60 years - assisting teenage children to become responsible adults and developing leisure activities


- later maturity - 60 and Beyond - dealing with the death of a spouse and adjusting to retirement

The tendency for adult females in the United States to wear high heels is best explained by

Sex role socialization

Negative reinforcement

Occurs when the removal of a stimulus increases the probability that an antecedent behavior will occur

Reinforcers

both positive and negative increase the probability that a behavior will occur

The sequence of object loss which goes from potest to despair to detachment best describes the work of

Bowlby

A counselor who is seeing a 15 year old boy weigh who is not doing well in public speaking class with need to keep in mind that

In general Girls Princess better verbal skills and boys and in general boys possess better visual perceptual skills and are more active and aggressive than girls

Two brothers begin screaming at each other during a family counseling session. The term that best describes this phenomenon is

Sibling rivalry

The Primal scene

Psychoanalytic concepts that suggest that a young child Witnesses his parents having sexual intercourse or get seduced by a parent

A preschool child's concept of causality is said to be animistic. This means the child attributes human characteristics to inanimate objects. Thus the child may fantasize that an automobile or a rock is talking to him. This concept is best related to

Piaget's pre-operational period- ages 2 to 7 years old

Animism

Occurs when a child acts as if a non-living object has lifelike abilities and tendencies

Anima

Represents the female characteristics of the personality

Animus

Represents the male characteristics of a personality

Wish fulfillment

A Freudian notion that dreams and slips of the tongue are actually wish fulfillment

Elementary School counseling and guidance services

Are fairly new development which should not begin to gain momentum until the 1960s

Research related to elementary school counselors indicate that

These counselors are effective, do make a difference in the children's lives, and more counselors should be employed

According to the Yale research by Daniel J Levinson

80% of the men in the study experienced moderate to severe midlife crisis and an age 30 crisis occurs in men when they feel that will soon be too late to make better changes

Erikson's middle-age stage ages 35 to 60 is also known as generativity vs. Stagnation. Generativity refers to

The ability to do creative work or raise a family. The opposite of stagnation. The productive ability to create a career, family, and Leisure Time

A person who can look back on his or her life with few regrets feels

Ego Integrity in Erikson's integrity versus despair stage

Sensorimotor is to Piaget as oral is the Freud, and as __ to Erikson

Trust vs. Mistrust

Which theorist was most concerned with maternal deprivation

H. Harlow

When development comes to a halt counselors say that the client

Suffers from fixation

Learned helplessness syndrome

In which a person is exposed to situations that he or she is truly powerless to change and then begins to believe he or she has no control over the environment. Such a person can become easily depressed. This concept is associated with Martin. E. P. Seligman

Risky shift phenomenon

The fact that a group decision is typically more liberal than the average decision of individual group member prior to participation in the group. The individual stance is generally more conservative than the group's decision

Kohlberg proposed three levels of morality. Freud on the other hand feel morality develop from the

Superhero

Parent ego state

Equivalent to the super ego. The parent ego is filled with ships, aunts, and must which often guide morality. Created by Eric Berne the father of transactional analysis

Which theorist would most likely say that aggression is an inborn tendency

Konrad Lorenz

The statement and bad behavior is punished, good behavior is not is most closely associated with

Kohlberg's premoral stage at the preconventional level

Heteronomous stage/ morality

Between ages 4 and 17 with a child views rules as absolutes that result in punishment

Automonous stage / morality

The child's perceptions that rules are relative and can be altered or changed

A critical period

Makes imprinting possible and signifies a special time when a behavior must be learned or the behavior won't be learned at all

Imprinting is an instinct in which a newborn will follow a moving object. The primary work in this area was done by

Konrad Lorenz

Marital satisfaction

Often this with Parenthood and is lowest prior to a child leaving home

Maslow, humanist psychologist, is famous for his hierarchy of needs which postulates

Lower orders physiological and safety needs and higher order needs such as self-actualization

To research the Dilemma of self-actualization Maslow

Interviewed the best people he can find who escaped the psychology of the average

Piaget is

Structuralist hopefully you stage changes are qualitative

___ factors cause Down syndrome which produces mental retardation

Genetic

Phenylketonuria- PKU

Which is an amino acid metabolic difficulty that causes retardation unless the baby is placed on a special diet

Klinefelter's Syndrome

In which a male shows no masculinity at puberty

Turner syndrome

Female has no gonads or sex hormones

Piaget referred to the act of taking in new information as assimilation. This results in accommodation, which is a modification of the child's cognitive structure or schema to deal with the new information. The Piagetian nomenclature, the balance between assimilation and accommodation is called

Equilibrium

Counterbalancing

Refers to an experimental process in which a researcher varies the order of conditions to eliminate irrelevant variables

Balance Theory

Suggest that individuals overweight inconsistent or incompatible beliefs. People prefer consistent beliefs. Also called cognitive consistency

ABA design

Experimental and research lingo. The A stands for the Baseline, which is the behavior before the experimental or treatment procedure is introduced. B is the treatment. After the treatment has been introduced A is measured to see if a change is evident

There are behavioral, structural, and maturational theory of development. The maturational viewpoint utilizes the plant growth analogy, in which the mine is seen as being driven by Instinct while the environment provides nourishment, thus placing limits on development. Counselors who are maturationist

Allow clients to work through early conflicts

Ritualistic behaviors which are common to all members of a species are known as

Fixed action patterns elicited by sign stimuli

Fixed action pattern - FAP

Will result whenever a releaser in the environment is present. The action or sequence of behavior will not vary

Hysteria

Occurs when an individual displays an organic symptom such as blindness, paralysis, or deafness yet no physiological causes are evident

Pica

A condition in which a person wishes to eat items that are not food

Robert Kegan speaks of a "holding environment" in counseling in which

The client can make meaning in the face of a crisis and can find a new D


Direction

Kegan suggest six stages of lifespan development to include

Incorporative, impulsive, Imperial, interpersonal, institutional, and interindividual

Most experts in the field of counseling agree that

No one theory completely explains developmental processes thus counselors ought to be familiar with all the major theories

Equilibration

The balance between what one takes in (assimilation) and that which is changed (accommodation)

The council is working with the family who just lost everything in a fire. The counselor would ideally focus on

Maslow's lower-order needs such as physiological and safety needs

Maslow's hierarchy of needs

Survival, security, safety, love, self esteem, and self-actualization

Anal retentive personality is

Stingy

From a Freudian perspective a client who has a problem with alcoholism and excessive smoking would be

Considered a oral character