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Understanding Human Development Quiz

Delve into the fascinating world of human development with this informative quiz. Assess your knowledge on key psychological theories and stages of development spanning from infancy to adulthood.

Test your understanding of concepts like:

Cognitive and socioemotional processes
Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory
Piaget's stages of cognitive development

10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by ReflectingMind23

_____ processes refer to changes in the individual's thought, intelligence, and language.

Cultural

Biological

Cognitive

Socioemotional

According to Urie Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory, a person's family, peers, school, and neighborhood constitute his/her:

Microsystem

Macrosystem

Chronosystem

Mesosystem

Bandura's most recent model of learning and development includes three elements: behavior, environment, and:

Person/cognition

Education level

Culture

Motivation

Two-year-old Julia is learning to talk, and her parents would say that her favorite word is "no." This would be considered normal for a child in Erik Erikson's life-span stage of:

Autonomy versus shame and doubt.

Initiative versus guilt.

Intimacy versus isolation.

Trust versus mistrust.

Most contemporary psychoanalytic theorists believe that Sigmund Freud:

Proposed a theory that has stood the test of time and needs no revisions.

Overemphasized sexual instincts.

Overemphasized cultural experiences as determinants of an individual's development.

The idea that no age period dominates development highlights the life-span perspective that development is

Contextual

Plastic

Lifelong

Multidimensional

Hidalgo, eight, is very good at addition and subtraction, but he has a hard time understanding the complex algebraic problems that his 14-year-old sister does. Hidalgo is currently in which of Jean Piaget's stages of development?

Formal operational

Preoperational

Conceptual Operational

Concrete operational

The theory that was created by Erik Erikson is known as the _____ theory of development.

Psychoanatomical

Psychogenic

Psychobiological

Psychosocial

Development can be defined as the pattern of movement or change that:

Begins at childhood and continues until adulthood.

Begins at birth and continues through the human life span.

Begins at conception and continues through the human life span.

Begins at conception and continues until adulthood.

As people enter adolescence they start focusing more time on romantic relationships, and spend less time with friends as a result. This illustrates how development is:

Multidisciplinary

Contextual

Multidirectional

Plastic

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