Psychology: A Self-Teaching Guide

Intelligence: In Pursuit of Rational Thought and Effective Action 149 fictional character. Children raised by animals or in depr ...

150 PSYCHOLOGY nurture controversy is something of a false issue. The correct formula for under- standing intelligence is this o ...

Intelligence: In Pursuit of Rational Thought and Effective Action 151 Which of the following is the correct formula for the int ...

152 PSYCHOLOGY ANSWERS TO THE TRUE-OR-FALSE PREVIEW QUIZ True. True. False. There is an information subtest in the Wechsler Int ...

11 Developmental Psychology: How Children Become Adults 153 PREVIEW QUIZ True or False TFIf a fertilized egg contains an XX chr ...

OBJECTIVES After completing this chapter, you will be able to define developmental psychology; describe fetal development; expl ...

Biological Aspects of Development: From Fertilized Egg to Infant Freud said, “Biology is destiny.” Although Freud is usually tho ...

(c) Both the sperm and the egg contain twenty-three chromosomes. (d) What is the process that reduces pairs of chromosomes to in ...

(c) The is the outer layer of embryonic cells. (d) The is the middle layer of embryonic cells. (e) The is the internal layer of ...

The five stages of psychosexual development are: (1) oral, (2) anal, (3) phallic, (4) latency, and (5) genital. In order to appr ...

ground not because of a lack of biological maturation, but because of psychologi- cal conflict. Freud suggested that the child h ...

as Freud thought, a behavior pattern demonstrated by almost all children. The psychoanalyst Karen Horney, one of Freud’s advocat ...

(c) In each stage described by Erikson, the first attribute mentioned is a , or desirable, personality trait. Answers: (a) Psych ...

(a) A preschooler with a sense of will be likely to start a project and see it through to completion. (b) A child with a sense o ...

trait of integrity can face approaching death with a certain amount of acceptance. There is relative peace of mind because the i ...

(a) , a branch of philosophy, is the study of knowing. (b) The method, used by Piaget, is characterized by asking a child a seri ...

Two additional characteristics of the preoperational stage are anthropomor- phic thinking and egocentrism. Anthropomorphic think ...

various viewpoints on life, become accessible. Not only thinking, but thinking about thinking is possible. This is called metath ...

(b) The philosophers Plato and Immanuel Kant believed that the moral sense is . (c) The philosophers Aristotle and John Locke as ...

The principled levelis associated with a relatively small percentage of adults. These are people who think for themselves about ...