Study Worksheet (1 of 3) – 1. Theories of Development

Complete the following sentences (there may be many ‘words’ needed to complete the sentence):

1. / The branch of psychology that systematically focuses on the physical, cognitive, and social changes that occur throughout the life cycle is called ______.
2. / Piaget is best known for his interest in the process of ______development.
3. / According to Piaget, assimilation involves ______.
4. / Adjusting current schemas to make sense of new information is called______.
5. / The awareness that things continue to exist even when they are not perceived is known as
6. / The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects is called
7. / Five-year-old Tammy mistakenly believes that her short, wide glass contains less soda than her brother's tall, narrow glass. Actually, both glasses contain the same amount of soda. This illustrates that Tammy lacks the concept of
8. / A tendency to exaggerate the extent to which our own opinions are shared by others best illustrates
9. / According to Piaget, children acquire the mental operations needed to comprehend such things as mathematical transformations and conservation during the ______stage.
10. / According to Piaget, people are first able to reason abstractly and think hypothetically during the ______stage.
11. / Contemporary research suggests that Piaget identified fairly accurately ______of major cognitive developmental milestones but not the ______.
12. / Which mother is preferred by infant monkeys raised with a nourishing wire mother and a nonnourishing cloth mother? Why?
13. / According to Erikson, infancy is to trust as adolescence is to
14. / According to Erikson, later adulthood is to integrity as young adulthood is to
15. / According to Erikson, adolescents who are unable to develop a sense of identity experience
16. / According to Erikson, committing oneself to meaningful social roles would be most indicative of the achievement of
17. / Fred has no meaningful occupational goals and has switched college majors several times. Erikson would have suggested that Fred lacks
18. / Erikson suggested that the capacity to form close, loving relationships in young adulthood depended on
19. / Erik Erikson maintained that the two basic aspects of life that dominate adulthood are
20. / In Erikson's theory, the sense of integrity achieved in late adulthood refers to the feeling that

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