Psychology: A Self-Teaching Guide

ANSWERS TO THE SELF-TEST

1-b 2-a 3-a 4-d 5-a 6-d 7-c 8-d 9-c 10-b

ANSWERS TO THE TRUE-OR-FALSE PREVIEW QUIZ

1. True.


2. True.


3. False. In psychosocial development, the stage of identity versus role confusion is associ-
   ated with adolescence.


4. False. Cognitive development focuses primarily on the way the child thinks.


5. False. An authoritarian parent tends to be highly controlling, demanding, possessive,
   and overprotective.

KEY TERMS

172 PSYCHOLOGY

accepting style

accepting-rejecting dimension

adolescent psychology

amoral

anal stage

anthropomorphic thinking

authoritarian style

authoritarian-permissive dimension

autonomy versus shame and doubt

child psychology

chromosomal anomaly

chromosome

cognitive development

concrete operations stage

conditional love

conventional level

democratic

deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)

developmental psychology

Down’s syndrome

ectoderm

egocentrism

Electra complex

embryo

endoderm

epistemology

erogenous zones

fetus

fixation of libido

formal operations stage

gene

generativity versus self-absorption

genital stage

I-it relationship

I-thou relationship

identity versus role confusion

industry versus inferiority

infant

infantile depression

initiative versus guilt