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Human Growth and Development
question on the NCE EXAM PRACTICE TEST
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Psychology
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02/12/2018

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understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be observed (seen, heard, touched, smelled or sensed in any way). ... According to this view, it is through touching and handling objects that infants develop object permanence.
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Object Permanence
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The Ego the Id (1923) is an influential text in the field of psychology written by whom?
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Sigmund Freud
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Jean Piaget's formal operational stage corresponds with the approximate ages of ___ and focuses on the development of skills like?
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Twelve years (12 and beyond) Crawling, walking and making sounds.
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An index that measures someone's cognitive, critical thinking, and abstract thinking abilities?
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Intelligence Quotient.
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Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of developing moral principles consists of preconventional, conventional, and post conventional morality. Each of these levels contains two stages. Kohlberg believed people rarely achieved which stages in his theory of moral development?
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Five (5) & Six (6), of of the theory consist of acting in a way that considers society and the welfare of others and respecting universal justice for all people.
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____ Who was a student and researcher of Lawrence Kohlberg and believed Kohlberg's moral development theories did not apply to women?
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Carol Gilligan.
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Animals taking on the characteristics of the first object they visibly see and begin to take on its mannerisms as a way of learning how to interact with their environment. Such as infants do with their mother is called ___?
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An example of (Imprinting).
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Jean Piaget's preoperational stage corresponds with the approximate ages of ____ and focuses on the development of skills like?
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Two years (2) to Seven (7) years: Language development and imagination.
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an index that measures someone's ability to connect with others, develop relationships, and show empathy?
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Emotional Quotient.
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Jack is training his puppy to fetch. Every time the puppy retrieves a thrown object and places it in Jack's hand, Jack gives the puppy a treat, this is an example of what?
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Positive reinforcement.
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a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father is called?
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(Electra complex). In Neo-Freudian psychology, the Electra complex, as proposed by Carl Jung,
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Jean Piaget's concrete operational stage corresponds with the approximate ages of ___ and focuses on the development of skills like?
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Seven (7) to Twelve (12) years: Reasoning and empathy.
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Nancy Chodorow, Harriet Lerner, Carol Tavris, and Jean Baker Miller are all leading researchers who have focused on what?
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Feminist psychology.
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According to Freud boys will exhibit antagonist behavior toward their fathers and become very possessive of their mother's at some point during the ages of three (3) and five (5). This is called what?
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Oedipus Complex.
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Arnold Gesell is one of the few leaders in psychological thought who believed that the progression of one's development is primarily___.
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Genetic and hereditary.
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Who developed the following sequences of development? Infancy, Toddler, preschooler, school age, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood?
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Erik Erikson.
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Joe's parents divorced when he was six, and his father moved out, he is now receiving therapy and has become angry with his male therapist, fearing the therapist will abandon him. Jo's reaction is an example of what?
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Transference.
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Jean Piaget's sensorimotor stage corresponds with the approximate ages of __ and focuses on the development of skills like?
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Birth to two (2) years: Rolling, crawling, walking, and making sounds.
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William Perry focused a theory of development on the cognitive abilities, conceptions of knowing and knowledge application practices on who?
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College Students.
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The four progressive stages of William Perry's scheme, which focused on the learning, information retention, and knowledge application of college student's falls in what order?
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Dualism, multiplicity, relativism, commitment to relativism. (DMRC).
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An Individual leaves early for their commute to work to avoid traffic. This is an example of what?
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Negative reinforcement.
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What are the three domains of study in the human development?
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Physical, cognitive, and psychosocial. (PCP).
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Who authored the Seasons of a man's life, which examines the feelings, dreams, and behaviors of men throughout their lifespan?
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Daniel Levinson.
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Of the id, the ego, and the superego, what is the strongest component of the individual's psyche in a healthy individual?
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The ego.
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Who wrote passages, a book honored by Library of congress as one of the top ten influential books of time?
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Gail Sheehy.
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Harry Harlow noticed that monkeys who did not receive consistent warmth or affection from a material figure were more likely to be what?
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Less warm or affectionate to their own offspring, aloof and or angry, and socially impaired.
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